Githu Muigai, two top lawyers make Africa award list

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Githu Muigai, two high attorneys make Africa award checklist

Tuesday August 15 2023

Senior Counsel Prof Githu Muigai on the Supreme Court docket through the listening to of the presidential election petition on August 31, 2022. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG

Three Kenyan senior attorneys have been shortlisted for the African Arbitrator of the 12 months award, which honours counsels who’ve contributed to the event of arbitration within the continent.

Senior counsel Githu Muigai, Kamau Karori and John Ohaga will battle it out for the highest honours within the awards, which was began in 2019.

The Africa Arbitration Awards was integrated in 2019 to have a good time the area’s arbitration professionals. The awards are hosted by the East Africa Worldwide Arbitration, the premier arbitration award for the area.

Whereas saying this 12 months’s shortlist, the judges who’re made up of registrars of Africa’s arbitration centres stated: “We’re honoured to announce this shortlist of arbitrators and organisations who’ve persistently gone above and past within the arbitration occupation.”

The ultimate winner in every class can be determined by a spherical of on-line voting by the arbitration neighborhood in Africa.

The voting opened on August 9 and closes on August 23. The winners can be introduced on August 25, in Zanzibar.

Arbitration is supplied for in Article 159 of the Structure and has been gaining floor as a type of various dispute decision.

The shortlisted nominees for the Younger Arbitrator of the 12 months class are Jacqueline Kapinga senior affiliate at Rex Attorneys (Tanzania), Leyla Ahmed, an affiliate at TripleOKLaw (Kenya) and Thokwadi Seabela, affiliate associate at Motsoeneng Invoice Attorneys (South Africa).

Africa within the moot and Herbert Smith Freehills are the one nominees shortlisted within the Innovation in Arbitration Class.

These shortlisted for the main service supplier in arbitration embody CIArb Kenya, Nairobi Centre for Worldwide Arbitration and Resolve Worldwide Consultancy.

AAA says an impressive achievement can be thought-about as one which has made a constructive impression and contributed to the event of arbitration or ADR, together with serving to to encourage younger practitioners in arbitration amongst others.

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