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Saadia Bhatty, Antonia Birt, Elizabeth Chan and Gretta Walters Are Appointed to CPR's Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution Steering Committee
Four ArbitralWomen members are appointed to CPR's Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee. Another ArbitralWomen member, Natalie Reid, will continue acting as Co-Chair of CPR Y-ADR for a further one-year term.
Saadia Bhatty, a member of the ArbitralWomen Marketing Committee, has been appointed to the CPR's Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee. Based in London, Saadia is counsel in the international dispute resolution team at Gide Loyrette Nouel and advises and represents states and private entities in international commercial and investment arbitrations (both institutional and ad hoc). Saadia is admitted to the Bars of Paris and New York. She currently serves as President of the London Chapter of the Harvard Women in Defense, Diplomacy and Development group and is a member of the international advisory board to the Young Arbitration Group of Pakistan’s CIICA, the advisory board of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration, and the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Centre for Law and Society.
Antonia Birt is a senior associate in the International Arbitration Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and acts as counsel and advocate in commercial and construction arbitrations. Antonia’s practice focusses on advising state, national and multi-national clients with a focus on energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, engineering and distribution. Antonia has acted under the key arbitral rules, including the ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC and UNCITRAL Rules. She also sits as arbitrator. Based in Dubai for nearly a decade, Antonia is admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales and speaks English, German and Russian.
Elizabeth Chan has been appointed to the CPR's Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee. Based in London, Elizabeth is an associate at Three Crowns LLP. She specialises in international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration, with particular focus on the oil and gas industry and Asia. Elizabeth is admitted in New Zealand and New York, speaks three languages, and is a Visiting Faculty Member at LSE and a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary University of London.
Gretta Walters has been appointed to the CPR's Young Attorneys in Dispute Resolution (Y-ADR) Steering Committee. Based in New York, Gretta is counsel at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP and represents individual and corporate clients in commercial and investment disputes in domestic and international arbitration and state and federal courts. She is admitted to the New York Bar, is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law and serves as Secretary of the International Commercial Disputes Committee of the New York City Bar.
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Policy on Funding Moot Competition Teams
Each year ArbitralWomen provides support to a number of Teams who participate in dispute resolution competitions, such as the Vis or Vis East International Arbitration Moot by covering their registration fee.
Following are the conditions for the funding:
Any qualified team requesting financial assistance must complete an application form providing details of the teams, resources, and the reason for the requested assistance. The application form is available on the website, and may be amended from time to time as the Board deems appropriate.
The Board, through its Moot Bursary Committee, shall consider all applications received and decide which team(s) shall be supported through payment of its(their) registration fee to compete. In general, teams selected will be from different countries. Applications filed after the deadline will be disregarded.
Criteria of selection:
The team must reflect ArbitralWomen's mission of promoting the participation of women in dispute resolution, i.e. at least half of the members of a team must be women.
The team must demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
Priority will be given to teams:
who have not previously participated, and whose school has not previously participated;
who have no support from their universities or no coach;
who come from developing countries or jurisdictions which, in the sole discretion of the Board, are in the greatest need of support for the advancement of women in dispute resolution;
of smaller number of students composing the team (for example 4 students as opposed to 8).
An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
Nothing in this Policy prevents a team, which has already received funding in one year, from applying in future years. The Board shall treat each application on its merits and in relation to other applications received for that particular year.
The Board shall effect payment to the final payee rather than directly to the team. In the event the team for any reason cannot participate, the Board at its sole option may request a refund from the organising authority, may request the organising authority to apply the funds to assist another team in that year, or may request that the funds be used to pay for another team in the following year.
Funding will, in the first instance, be sought from external sponsors, who shall be identified and introduced to the sponsored team(s). Further funding by ArbitralWomen itself in any given year will be contingent upon the existence and maintenance of sufficient funds in the account of ArbitralWomen. Each year, the Board will decide the number of awards to be given in that year. Nothing in this Policy obliges the Board to provide funding in any given year.
Although the ArbitralWomen Moot Bursaries are limited to payment of the registration fee, as mentioned above, there is nothing to prevent the chosen sponsors from providing additional assistance to the teams assigned as their "fundee", but any such arrangement will be made directly between the sponsor and the applicable team.
