Qatar is making a bold move into the regional legal scene with its own specialist court for civil disputes. The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Judiciary is busy building its first court room in a tower in the capital, due to be finished next month.
Judges on the new court roster include: Lord Woolf, formerly the lord chief justice of England and Wales; Lord Cullen, formerly the lord justice general and the lord president of the court of session in Scotland; and Justice Aziz Ahmadi, formerly the chief justice of India.
But unlike its peer in the UAE, which has the most established track record for cases in the Gulf, the QFC Judiciary hopes to become a dispute resolution centre for companies not necessarily based in Qatar. "A key difference for us is our jurisdiction," said Robert Musgrove, the recently appointed chief executive of the Qatar Civil and Commercial Court. Mr Musgrove was previously the head of the civil justice council for England and Wales.
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