Efforts to make Gulf hub for dispute resolution

The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC), Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA) have embarked on efforts to make the Gulf region a hub for commercial dispute resolution. At a tri-lateral meeting held in Doha yesterday, Robert Musgrove, QICDRC CEO; Mark Beer, DIFC Courts Registrar and James MacPherson, BCDR-AAA CEO, discussed areas of mutual interest in the Gulf including case management, enforcement of judgments and the promotion of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), legal education and the rule of law.“As specialist international courts and dispute resolution centres in the Gulf, we have a range of common interests. The meeting combines our experience and expertise and provides an opportunity to strengthen the region as a commercial dispute resolution hub,” Musgrove said.As the first English-language, common law commercial court in this region, Beer said DIFC Courts strongly supported closer collaboration with Qatar and Bahrain.“All our joint meetings to date - in Bahrain, Dubai and Qatar - have served to enhance our collective expertise of all our entities, sharing as we all do all the region’s opportunities and challenges,” according to MacPherson.