Doha: The first phase of ‘Qualification and Preparation of the Arbitrators Programme’ will begin on October 18, the Qatar International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) of Qatar Chamber in collaboration with the Qatar University’s Community Service and Continuing Education Centre has announced. The training will be held virtually for the first time.
Entitled ‘Concept and Legal Nature of Commercial Arbitration,’ the programme aims to help trainees learn about the concept and types of arbitration and systems similar to arbitration, types and legal nature arbitration, and provide them with the requirements of arbitration litigation.
The training aims to qualify and prepare Qatari cadres through a scientific and training programme on the concept, nature, and types of arbitration and the development of arbitration legal thinking, to take responsibility for settling commercial, financial, and investment disputes arbitration that contributes to alleviating pressure on courts.
The programme’s stages intend to provide the participants with the ability to understand commercial arbitration and its various applications, the procedures for managing the arbitration proceedings between the claimant and the respondent, and how to formulate the arbitration rule and its main elements and implement the rule and the reasons for its invalidity.
The programme targets lawyers and legal advisers, legal and administrative leaders in the public and private sector companies, legal departments, ministries, government institutions, banks, and financial institutions.
It also targets heads and members of boards and directors of companies, business owners, contractors, and commercial agents, and arbitrators, and experts in the field of commercial disputes, engineers, accountants, and lawyers under training and law students.
The programme is part of the cooperation between QICCA and Community Service and Continuing Education Centre to fulfill the training needs of institutions and individuals in commercial arbitration, which has become important globally to solve commercial disputes and measure the investment and business climate.
