The AIFC Court and IAC are delighted to invite participants to attend, free of charge, the latest webinar of the AIFC Court & IAC Webinars Programme 2021. During the webinar, Justice Tom Montagu-Smith QC, AIFC Court, and Mr. Christopher Campbell-Holt, the Registrar and Chief Executive of the AIFC Court and IAC, will discuss the AIFC Court and IAC procedural rules in the context of leading international dispute resolution practices. This event is held in collaboration with the webinar series, "Legal institutions of the AIFC as a factor of modernisation and development of modern Kazakhstan: state and prospects", organised by the AIFC Authority.

Registration is closed

This webinar is for:

✅Lawyers

✅Business community

When: 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:00 (Nur-Sultan time) 11:00-12:00 (London time).

No payment required. Participation is free of charge upon registration to the webinar.

Language: English/Russian. 

About Speakers

Justice Tom Montagu-Smith QC

Justice Montagu-Smith QC was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn) in 2001 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2017. He practices as a barrister from XXIV Old Buildings, a barristers’ chambers in London, and practices in London and internationally including in the British Virgin Islands and Dubai, having appeared in many of the leading cases at the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He was the principle draftsman of the Rules of the AIFC Court.

Main areas of expertise – international commercial law, arbitration, commercial fraud, insurance and reinsurance,  construction, and professional negligence.

He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford University, where he read Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and graduated in 1999. He read for the Postgraduate Diploma in Law at the College of Law in 2000 and read for the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law in 2001.

Mr. Christopher Campbell-Holt 

Mr. Campbell-Holt is the Registrar and Chief Executive of the AIFC Court. He is also Enforcement Judge of the AIFC Court. He is responsible for the day to day management and administration of the Court and case management of litigation before the Court to the extent delegated or directed by the Chief Justice. As Enforcement Judge he is responsible for issuing execution orders of Court judgments and orders.

He managed the establishment of the AIFC Court and International Arbitration Centre. He is a member of the AIFC Legal Advisory Council, which reviews and approves AIFC law. He is a member of the Working Group on Judicial and Legal Reforms of the Supreme Council of Reforms of the Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.  He is a member of the International Council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which advises on reform of the Kazakh courts and dispute resolution. He is an Honorary Professor at KAZGUU University, Kazakhstan, and a member of the AIFC Academic Council and Advisory Board of the AIFC Academy of Law, which advise the AIFC Bureau for Continuing Professional Development and AIFC Academy of Law.

He has many years of international legal experience gained while living and working in the UK, US, Middle East, and Central Asia. He was the Registrar at an international financial centre commercial court and alternative dispute resolution centre in Qatar under the Presidency of Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He also worked at the international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, in London, UK, and at a Middle East law firm partnered with the international law firm Covington & Burling LLP, in Doha, Qatar.