The Qatar International Court (QIC) has concluded a training course focused on enabling Qatari lawyers to litigate in the QFC Civil and Commercial Court with world-class advocacy skills.
The five-day course was organised by the QIC in collaboration with the Legal and Judicial Studies Centre, Ministry of Justice, and US-based BARBRI Group, a leading international legal education institution.
The training course comprised theoretical lectures, demonstrations, workshops and mock trials covering topics such as preparing and writing claims, submission methods, commencement of proceedings, submitting evidence, direct examination and cross-examination andappealing a court judgment.
The course was delivered by international advocacy and law experts and judges of the Supreme Court of the US.
At the close of the training course, Faisal Rashid al-Sahouti, chief executive officer of QIC, and Maryam Yousif Arab, manager of the Legal and Judicial Studies Centre, Ministry of Justice, delivered completion certificates to the participating local lawyers.
“I would like to thank both the Ministry of Justice and the Qatari Lawyers Association for their co-operation and ensuring the success of this course. The main purpose of this programme was qualifying and training Qatari lawyers to litigate in the QFC Civil and Commercial Court, which adopts the Anglo-Saxon common law system and applies highest international standards of legal procedure,” said al-Sahouti.
He noted that all the cases considered by the court previously were pleaded by foreign law firms.
Further, al-Sahouti said similar intensive courses would be organised in the near future in co-operation with the Legal and Judicial Studies Centre of the Ministry of Justice and BARBRI Group to adequately prepare lawyers, adding that the QIC is open for Qatari lawyers to litigate on its cases.
Al-Sahouti also stressed that the QIC would provide opportunities for Qatari lawyers to litigate before the QFC Civil and Commercial Court through association with foreign law firms.
On her part, Arab noted that the training course benefited all those who were enrolled as they learned the methods of litigation and pleading before the QFC Civil and Commercial Court. She thanked QIC for hosting the workshop and supporting Qatari lawyers to litigate before them.
At the end of the course, al-Sahouti was nominated honorary president of BARBRI Group for legal education and to be an ambassador for the dissemination of knowledge, legal and judicial culture, and legal excellence.
Participants lauded the initiative and thanked the organisers for conducting the training course, which they said would benefit them greatly.
