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Current members of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal

Mr Arthur Faerua (Vanuatu), member, 1 June 2012 - 31/5/2016; 1/6/2016 Education

2010, University of South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Vanuatu

Vanuatu mediation Practise Course

• Skills in Conducting Mediation and Dispute Resolution

• Certified by Supreme Court Vanuatu as an accredited Mediator

2004, University of South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Vanuatu

Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching (GCTT)

• Skills in Delivery and Learning in a tertiary environment

• Student-Oriented Learning for Pacific students

1997 – 1998, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Masters of Law (LLM)

• International Trade Law

• Focus on Pacific Constitutions and economic development

September - December 1996, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Professional Legal Studies

Admission as Barrister & Solicitor in the High Court of New Zealand

1992-1995, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

International Trade & Commercial Law

Short-Term Trainings & Instructionals November 2008, Commodities Branch, Division on International Trade in Good and Services & Commodities, UNCTAD & Vanuatu National Codex Committee National Capacity Building Workshop on Commodities- related Trade and Development, Poverty Reduction, Food Safety Standards and Quality Requirements, and Food Laws and Technical Regulations

Trade & Food Safety Standards March 2005, WHO/FAO Training Course on the Management of Codex Contact Point and the National Codex System Capacity Building in Codex, Food Regulation and International Food Standards Harmonisation

International Trade Law

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February 2004, Consultation & Working Committee on Review of Legislation and Regulations on Food (Control) Act regime in Vanuatu to comply with international standards of Codex Alimentarius Consultation Group & Working Committee Member

Legislation & Regulations Review Exercise November 2000, Melbourne School of Business & International Development Law Institute (IDLl) International Trade Lawyers Course

Internationa l Trade Law July - August 2000, Hague, Netherlands UN / UNITAR Fellowship Programme in International Law

Focus on various subjects of international law and UN Conventions July - August 2000, Hague Academy of International Law, Hague, Netherlands Hague Lectures on Private and Public International Law

Lectures on public and private international law

Professional Experience

18 March 2011 - 24 April 2011, Ministry of Justice e & Community Services, Government of

the Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu

First Political Advisor to the Minister of Justice & Social Welfare

Areas of responsibility: Assistance to Minister in areas of policy advice, technical advice,

COM & DCO Papers facilitation, drafting of letters, press releases, instructions and notices.

Management of ministry cabinet staff and other administration duties.

22 February 2011 - 21 March 2011, Ministry of Lands, Geology, Mines % Water

Resources, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu

First Political Advisor to the Minister of Lands, Geology, Mines & Water Resources



Management of ministry cabinet staff and other administrative duties.

6 December 2010 - 18 February 2011, Ministry of Cooperatives & Ni-Vanuatu Business

Development, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu

First Political Advisor to the Minister of Cooperatives & Ni-Vanuatu Business Development




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April 2010 - November 2010, IF Project, Department of Trade and Industries, Ministry of

Trade, Commerce, Tourism and Industries, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port

Vila, Vanuatu

Trade Act Coordinator

Consultancy role in developing trade legislations and trade related legal policy, review of

existing trade laws in Vanuatu, developing policy papers, undertaking research and overall

advisory work for the implementation of the project.

March 2009 - November 2009, Ministry of Justice e & Social Welfare, Government of the

Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu

First Political Advisor to the Minister of Justice & Social Welfare




August 2001 to December 2008, University of the South Pacific, School of Law, Port Vila,

Vanuatu

Lecturer

Areas of teaching: Contract Law, Succession & Probate Law, Criminal Law & Procedure,

Constitutional Law, Legal Methods and Process, Current Developments in Pacific Law and

Clinical Legal Education

March 1996 - July 2001, State Law Office, Gov. of Vanuatu, Port Vila

State Counsel

• Assist the Attorney General as Advisor to the Government

• Government Representation in Court Litigation

• Legal and policy matters in relation to international law, UN conventions,

multi-lateral treaties and regional agreements

Consultancies & Project Work

April 2010 - November 2010, IF Project, Department of Trade and Industries, Ministry of

Trade, Commerce, Tourism and Industries, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port

Vila, Vanuatu

Trade Act Coordinator

Consultancy role in developing trade legislations and trade related legal policy, review of

existing trade laws in Vanuatu, developing policy papers, undertaking research and overall

advisory work for the implementation of the project.

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November 2010, Jastis BIong Evriwan, World Bank Program

Independent Reviewer of Tanna & Epi Reports

Consultancy role in carrying out independent reviews on the Tanna and Epi reports

produced by the JBE Program. Including participation in the Policy Note Discussions arising

from the Reports for submission to Government and Vanuatu Land Governance Committee.

August - September 2010, ADB Inter-lsland Shipping Feasibility Study, Ministry of

Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila,

Vanuatu

Local Consultant for Social Impact Assessment Study

Consultancy role in undertaking a Social Impact Assessment for proposed wharf sites on

Lenakel (Tanna), Litz-litz (Malekula) and Luganville (Santo) as part of a consultancy team

under Ace Consulting Group. Full Impact Reports were completed and submitted to ADB &

the Vanuatu Government.

September 2010 - November 2010, Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and Department of

Fisheries, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu

Consultant for Drafting of Regulation to Establish the Vanuatu Seafood Verification Agency

Consultancy role contracted by FF. and the Department of Fisheries to design and draft

necessary Regulations and Subsidiary Legislation to establish for the first time in Vanuatu a

national body to be responsible for the certification and accreditation of Fish exports from

Vanuatu to overseas markets.

April 2010, Asia-South Pacific Board for Adult Education (ASPBAE), Canberra, Australia

Consultant for Setting up of Vanuatu Education & Policy Advocacy Coalition

Consultancy role with specific Terms of Reference (TOR) to draft key documents

(constitution), incorporate and set-up National Office of VEPAC in Port Vila, including setting

up of bank accounts and office space.

2001 - 2010, Arbitration & Mediation Practise in Vanuatu

Arbitrator & Mediator for Employment Disputes

Throughout 2001 and 2010, I have been appointed to sit as an Arbitrator in Trade Disputes

in Vanuatu. I have also been appointed to be Mediator in several family and employment

disputes in Port Vila, such mediation being court ordered mediation.

Mr Justice George Erotocritou (Cyprus), member, 1 June 2012 – 31/5/2016; 16/2016 Born in Limassol in 1949. Studied law at Leeds University (LLB). Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). After serving as public prosecutor in Zimbabwe, he practiced law in Limassol from 1980 until 1986.

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On 15 October 1986 he was appointed District Judge and in 1995 he was promoted to Senior District Judge. Two years later he was appointed President of District Court. On 4 September 2007 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court.

He served as examiner for the Legal Council and as member of the Council of the Cyprus Judges Association. Between 2002-2007 he represented Cyprus at the Supervisory Body of Eurojust at the Hague. Ad hoc judge of ECHR. He wrote, with P. Artemis, the books “Road Negligence Cases” (1996) and “Civil Wrongs” (2003). With an interest in photography, he has been honoured by the International Federation of Photography (FIAP) for his contribution to the photographic art, with the honorary distinction Excellence for Services rendered to FIAP (ESFIAP).

Currently, George Erotocritou represents the Supreme Court at the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union “ACAEurope” and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN).

He is married and has two children.

Mr David Goddard QC, (New Zealand) member, 1/6/2011-31/5/2015; 1/6/2015-31/2018, Acting President 1/2/18- Qualifications BA (Hons) (Victoria University of Wellington); MA (Oxon)

Admitted to the bar of England and Wales: 1988 Admitted to the New Zealand bar: 1989 Appointed Queen's Counsel: 2003

Professional experience David Goddard has a wide ranging commercial litigation practice, with an emphasis on competition law and regulation, company law, contract law, public law and international law.

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David studied mathematics and French at Victoria University of Wellington, obtaining a first class honours degree in mathematics and the Sir Robert Stout Scholarship for the best first degree in the University across all faculties. He began his legal studies in New Zealand, then studied law at Oxford University (on a Rhodes Scholarship), obtaining a first class honours degree.

David spent two years as a lecturer in law at Bristol University, before returning to New Zealand to join Chapman Tripp (a leading New Zealand law firm) in 1988. He was a litigation partner at that firm from 1991 to 1998. He began practice as a barrister sole in 1999. From 2001 to 2003 he held a part-time appointment as Special Counsel - International with the Ministry of Economic Development, advising on cross-border coordination of business laws.

David has appeared as counsel in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council and Supreme Court and before arbitral tribunals in a wide range of civil and commercial cases. He has extensive experience representing clients in mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

David has been appointed as an arbitrator to determine a number of commercial disputes. He is an Associate Member of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand.

David also has a substantial involvement in legal policy advice. His policy advice practice focuses on advising governments and intergovernmental organisations on reform of commercial laws and institutions to facilitate market activity and economic development.

David publishes and speaks extensively in his areas of specialisation. He has taught at universities in New Zealand, Australia and England. He is the moderator of the contract law papers of the six New Zealand university law schools, appointed by the Council of Legal Education. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Private International Law and the New Zealand Universities Law Review.

Projects which David has undertaken, in addition to his litigation practice, include advising Parliamentary Committees and Government Departments on a wide range of commercial law and cross-border issues; representing the New Zealand Government in negotiations with Australia on a number of legal coordination initiatives; membership of the TransTasman Working Group on Court Proceedings and Regulatory Enforcement, established by the Australian and New Zealand Governments; representing the New Zealand Government at meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law;

conducting a Ministerial Inquiry into ACC Funding and Accreditation of Physiotherapy

Services; and providing policy advice on commercial law and governance issues to Governments and intergovernmental organisations in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Samoa, Tonga and Niue.

Publications Books and contributions to books

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Conflict of Laws: the international element in commerce and litigation (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 1991)

"Execution of Documents by Companies" in Prebble (ed) Dimensions in Business Finance Law (Butterworths, Wellington, 1992)

New Zealand section of International Execution against Judgment Debtors (Oceana Publications Inc, New York) (with Helen McQueen)

Company Law 1- Getting started (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 1994) (with Sian Elias QC, Jack Hodder, David Stock)

Morison's Company Law (5th ed, Butterworths, Wellington, 1994) chapters 6 (Reregistration), 13 (Nature and issue of shares), 15 (Share buybacks and financial assistance), 16 (Shareholders' rights and obligations) 46 (Amalgamations) and 48 (Court-approved arrangements, amalgamations and compromises)

"Conflict of Laws: Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments" title of The Laws of New Zealand (Butterworths, Wellington)

Developments in the Law of Obligations - tort, equitable duties and the effect of contractual relationships (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 1996) (with Professor Charles Rickett)

"Corporate Personality: Limited Recourse and its Limits" in Grantham and Rickett (eds) Corporate Personality in the 2(j" Century (HaIt Publishing, Oxford, 1998)

Deception in Commercial Dealings (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 1999) (with Terence Arnold QC)

Private International Law in New Zealand (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 2001) (with Helen McQueen)

"Business laws and regulatory institutions: some approaches to CER coordination" in A Grimes, L Wevers & G Sullivan (eds) States of Mind: Australia and New Zealand 1901 – 2001 (Institute of Policy Studies & Stout Research Centre, 2002).

"Company Law Reform - Lessons from the New Zealand Experience" in A Borrowdale, D Rowe and L Taylor (eds) Company Law Writings - A New Zealand Collection (Centre for Commercial and Corporate Law Inc, 2002) (revised version of article published at (1998) 16 C&SLJ 236)

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"Contracts that Lessen Competition - what is section 27 for, and how has it been used?" (with Professor Dennis Carlton) in M Berry & L Evans (eds), Competition Law at the Turn of the Century: a New Zealand Perspective (Victoria University Press, 2003)

"Cross-Border Issues" in Legislation Advisory Committee Guidelines (2003 edition)

Drafting Better Pleadings (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 2006)

Deception in Commercial Dealings (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 2008) (with Hon Justice Arnold)

Drafting Better Court Documents (New Zealand Law Society seminar booklet, 2009)

Articles and selected papers "The Myth of Subjectivity" (1987] Legal Studies 263

"Equity, Volunteers and Ducks" [1988] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 19 "Insolvent Trusts and Third Party Contracts" (1987) 2 Trust Law and Practice 51

"Solicitors' Liability to Third Parties: Clarke v Bruce Lance & Co" (1988) 4 Professional Negligence 129 "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Amendment Act 1992: a half step towards CER" (1992) NZ Recent Law Review 180

"New Zealand's contract statutes: international transactions" in New Zealand Law Commission Contract Statutes Review (NZLC Report 25, 1993)

Book review: Cheshire and North's Private International Law (l2th ed) [1993] NZLJ 71

"Seals: more dangerous than endangered" [1994] Butterworths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 38

"Contracts to issue shares under the Companies Act 1993" [1995] Butterworths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 18

"Disclosure in Annual Reports: the season is upon us" [1995] Butterworths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 58

"Convergence in corporations laws-towards a facilitative model" (1996) 26 VUWLR 191

"Taking Regulation Sceptically" - comment on paper by Professor Michael Trebilcock in Deregulation of Public Utilities: Current Issues and Perspectives (Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, 1996)

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"Paying Dividends in the Course of Litigation - Solvency Test Issues" [1996] Butterwolths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 146.

"Long term contracts: a law and economics perspective" [1997] NZ Law Review 423

"The 1993 Act comes into its own" [1997] Butterworths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 94.

"Company Law Reform - Lessons from the New Zealand Experience" (1998) 16 C&SLJ 236

"Tolt Liability of Directors; Compromises with Creditors" [1998] Butterworths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 62.

"Voidable preferences: when is a creditor preferred?" [1999] Butterwolths Company and Securities Law Bulletin 10

"Global Disputes - Jurisdiction, Interim Relief and Enforcement of Judgments" (paper presented to New Zealand Triennial Law Conference, Rotorua, April 1999)

"Directors and corporate groups - the New Zealand experience" (paper presented to Law Council of Australia 1999 Corporate Law Workshop, Sydney)

"Making Business Law - the CER Dimension" (paper commissioned by NZ Ministry of Commerce, August 1999: http://www.med.govt.nzJbuslt/bus pol/bus law/cergoddard/index.html)

"Directors' liability for trading while insolvent: a critical review of the New Zealand regime" in Company Directors' Liability for Insolvent Trading (Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, 2000)

"Security of Contract - why it matters, and what that means" (paper presented to 10th annual Journal of Contract Law Conference, Auckland) (2000) 6 NZBLQ 82, (2000) 16 JCL 123

"Does the Internet require new norms?" International Law FORUM du droit international 2: 183~ I 95, 2000

"Cross-border dispute resolution in civil and commercial cases: current developments and new proposals" in International Legal Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (Proceedings of a Joint Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law, 26 - 29 June 2000): http://law.anu.edll.all/anzsiI/ANZSILASILProceedings.pdf

"Contracts that Lessen Competition - what is section 27 for, and how has it been used?"

http://law.anu.edll.all/anzsiI/ANZSILASILProceedings.pdf

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(paper presented to Competition Law Conference, November 2000, with Professor Dennis Carlton, University of Chicago)

"Rethinking the Judgments Convention - a Pacific Perspective" Yearbook of Private International Law 200 I, Volume 3 (200 I), pp. 27-62

"Cross-border fraud: is our civil law adequate?" (paper presented to Law Asia Conference New Zealand Law Conference, Christchurch, October 2001)

"Business laws and regulatory institutions: some approaches to CER coordination" (paper presented to Institute of Policy Studies/Stout Research Centre conference "States of Mind", Wellington, November 2001) "Trans-Tasman Legal Coordination - The Next Frontiers" (paper presented to Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference 2003, Wellington NZ)

"Relationship Property Disputes - the International Element" (paper presented to New Zealand Law Society Family Law Conference, Auckland 2003)

"Shareholder approval of directors' decisions" (paper presented to LexisNexis Corporate Law Masterclass, Auckland, November 2004)

"Section 98 of the Commerce Act 1986: where do the limits lie?" (paper presented to Competition Law & Policy Institute Workshop, Wellington, August 2006)

"Regulatory Error: Review and Appeal Rights" (paper presented to Legal Research Foundation Conference, Auckland, September 2006)

"Case study: Trans-Tasman Court Proceedings And Regulatory Enforcement" (paper presented to Legal Research Foundation Conference, Wellington, March 2007)

" 'Are we there yet?': is there a contract, and what does it contain?" (paper presented to New Zealand Law Society Law of Obligations Intensive, Auckland and Wellington, July 2007)

"Review for error of law - some comments" (paper presented to New Zealand Law Society Judicial Review Intensive, Wellington, September 2007)

"Contract Law Update" (paper presented to New Zealand Law Society Commercial Law Intensive, Wellington and Auckland, May 2010)

"Public Law and Regulation" (paper presented to New Zealand Law Society Public Law Conference, Wellington, March 2011)

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Mr Chelva R Rajah SC, (Singapore) member, 15/1/2012 - 14/1/2016; 15/1/16-

Education Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore. (1955 - 1966) Lincoln College, Oxford University. (1967 - 1970) Inns of Court (Middle Temple), London. (1970 -1971)

Sport Captained Ceylon Sports Club in Singapore at cricket from 1977 to 1989. Played cricket for Singapore at various times between 1974 and 1987. Vice-President, Singapore Cricket Association from 1983 to 1992.

Patron, Ceylon Sports Club from 2002.

Professional experience and appointments Admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Singapore in 1972. Practising law in Singapore for 39 years.

• President of the Law Society of Singapore from 1990 to 1992. • Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law from April 1991 to July 1993. • Member of the Military Court of Appeal, Singapore from 1992 to June 1995. • Judicial Commissioner, High Court of Singapore from July 1995 to June 1997. • Appointed Senior Counsel in January 1998. • Chairman, Singapore National Committee, Asean Law Association from 2005

to 2006. • Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. • Board Member, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. • Arbitrator in more than 60 domestic and/or international arbitrations. • Currently a partner in Tan Rajah & Cheah, a Singapore law firm with 34

lawyers. Mainly engaged in arbitration/general litigation and in banking, construction, company, commercial, insolvency and contract related matters.

Non-professional appointments • Singapore's Non-Resident High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea. • Board Member, Mercy Relief. • Member of Legal Commission, Singapore Red Cross.

Professor Epiphany C Azinge SAN (Nigeria) member 1 June 2015 – PhD (Lond), LLD, MCIArb (Lond), OON Lecturer, University of Benin Nigeria 1981-1993

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Lecturer, University of Abuja, Nigeria, 1997-2000 Visiting Professor, Nassarawa State University – Keffi, Nigeria, 2003-2006 External examiner, various universities 2006-2010. Director General, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2000 – 2014 Professor Azinge has written and published extensively on a wide range of aspects of the law. Among his writings and publications are the following:

Articles Epiphany Azinge Legal Control of Political Party Financing in Nigeria (1989 –1990). The Nigerian Juridical Review 101 – 108.

The Death Penalty: An Effective Deterrent to Drug Trafficking and Abuse? In Narcotics Law and Public Policy in Nigeria Edition by Awa Kalu p. 350 – 365.

Judicial Activism in an Adversary System: The Nigerian Experience. Vol. 1 No. 1 University of Benin Law Journal (Nov. 1991) P. 52 – 64. Milestone Decisions in Human Rights in perspectives in Human Rights Edition by Awa Kalu and Yemi Osinbajo (Federal Ministry of Justice 1992) Pp. 196 – 219.

Legislation: Problems and Prospects of Law-Making in Nigeria Vol. 1 No. 1 of Nigerian Journal of Legislation May 1993 pp. 37 – 53.

Settlements of Disputes: An Appraisal of Alternatives to Adjudication in Matrimonial, Chieftaincy and Land Disputes Vol. 4, P. 47 Justice May – June Edition 1993.

Cost of Democracy: An Analysis of the Concept of Equality of participation in the Democratic Process Vol. 7 No. 5 Justice August Edition 1993 pp.

Contempt Powers of Parliament – A chapter in Towards Stability in the Third Republic, published by Fourth Dimension 1993 pp. 47 – 64.

Impeachment Proceeding: An unruly Horse Justice November – December Vol. 9 No. 7 pp. 26 – 36, 1993.

The Legal Status of a soldier under Nigerian Law justice. January – February 1994 pp. 45 – 62.

Election Tribunals in Nigeria. Chapter in Tribunal and Administration of Justice in Nigeria. Edition by Epiphany Azinge pp. 198 – 208.

Jurisdiction issues on Cyber Law Practice “GROWING THE LAW, NURTURING JUSTICE: Essays in honour of Honourable Justice Niki Tobi 9ed) Prof. A.I. Chukwuemene. 2006

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Corruption in Political Parties and the electoral Process: in PROBLEMS OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA (ed) I.A. Ayua and Bolaji Owasanoye. NIALS

Disqualification of Candidates for elective office: Constitutional Imperatives. CURRENT THEMES IN THE 1999 CONSTITUTION (ed) D. A. Guobadia and Epiphany Azinge

Rule of Law, Due Process and Good Governance. RULE OF LAW AND GOOD GOVERNANCE (ed) Epiphany Azinge and Bolaji Owasanoye

Edited books LAW-MAKING UNDER MILITARY REGIMES: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE by Epiphany Azinge.

AZINGE’S IMMIGRATION LAW AND PRACTICE IN NIGERIA by Epiphany Azinge.

NEW FRONTIERS IN LAW by Epiphany Azinge.

TRIBUNAL AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN NIGERIA by Epiphany Azinge.

GLOBALISATION: NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE LAW edited by D.A. Guobadia and Epiphany Azinge

CURRENT THEMES IN 1999 CONSTITUTION edited by D.A. Guobadia and Epiphany Azinge

RULE OF LAW AND GOOD GOVERNANCE edited by Epiphany Azinge and Bolaji Owasanoye

Legal Pluralism in Africa: A compendium on African customary law edited by Epiphany Azinge and Animi Awah

FUNDAMENTALS OF LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING edited by Epiphany Azinge and Vivian Madu

LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN NIGERIA edited by Epiphany Azinge and Suzzie Ofuani

DRAFTING LEGISLATION IN NIGERIA; CONSTITUTIONAL IMPERATIVES edited by Professor Epiphany Azinge and Ngozi Udombana

PLEA BARGAIN IN NIGERIA: LAW AND PRACTICE edited by Epiphany Azinge and Laura Ani

Competition Law and Policy in Nigeria edited by Epiphany Azinge and Laura Ani

Freedom of Information Law and Regulation in Nigeria edited by Epiphany Azinge and Fatima Waziri Azi

PRINCIPLES OF NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION edited by Epiphany Azinge and Chinyere Ani

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JUDICIAL REFORM AND TRANSFORMATION AGENDA edited by Epiphany Azinge and Dakas CJ Dakas

LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE edited by Epiphnay Azinge

FREEDOM OF PROTEST edited by Epiphany Azinge and Laura Ani

LEGAL EMPRICISM AND LEGAL WRITING SKILLS edited by Prof Epiphany Azinge, Francisca Nlerum and Kelechi Amadi

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR THE NIGERIAN MILITARY by Prof. Epiphany Azinge (Project Director)

JUDICAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (2009-2011) by Prof Epiphany Azinge (Project Director)

THE TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW (Co-published by NIALS and Osgoode Hall Law School

Journals NIALS JOURNAL OF LAW AND DEVELOPMENT VOL. 1 edited by Epiphany Azinge NIALS JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT REVIEW VOL. 1& 2 (2011) edited by Epiphany Azinge

NIALS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VOL. 1(2011) edited by Epiphany Azinge and Adebamo Adewopo

NIALS JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE edited by Epiphany Azinge and Ayo Atsenuwa

NIALS JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY edited by Epiphany Azinge and Adebisi Arewa

NIALS JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LAW edited by Epiphany Azinge and Paul Idornigie

NIALS JOURNAL OF LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING edited by Epiphany Azinge

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Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop, CD, member, 1 August 2018-

Born in Jamaica, 1965

Education

BA (1st Class Hons) 1992, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

LLB (1st Class Hons) 1994, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Certificate in Legal Education (1996), Norman Manley Law School, Kingston, Jamaica Certificate of Enrolment as Attorney-at-Law, Jamaica Bar, (1996)

Professional Experience

1996 – 1998 Clerk of Courts, Jamaica

1998 – 2000 Crown Counsel, Office of the DPP, Jamaica

2000 – 2006 Resident Magistrate & Coroner

2006 – 2008 Acting puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica

2009 – 2014 Puisne Judge

2014 – 2015 Acting Judge of Appeal

2015 - Judge of Appeal

Other Experience

2011 – present Acting Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands

2009 – present Associate tutor, Norman Manley Law School, Kingston, Jamaica

2008 – 2014 Course co-ordinator/Part-time lecturer Deputy Clerks of Courts Qualifying Examination Course, Ministry of Justice Training Institute, Jamaica

Some other activities & interests

Certified trainer in Judicial ethics Member, the Association of Women Judges of Jamaica Committee member Committee for the drafting of sentencing guidelines Committee member Resident Magistrates Rules Committee Committee member, Courts Reporting Committee Vice President, Law Reform and Assessment Committee Motivational speaker

Some selected papers presented

1998- 2016

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The Bank of Jamaica and the Credit Union League on money laundering;

The Jamaica Police Academy and Staff College on several criminal law issues including offences under the Larceny Act, fraud and identification procedures;

The Broadcasting Commission on the enforcement procedures under the Broadcasting Commission Act;

The Office of the DPP on evidential requirements in specified cases and on issues pertaining to identification evidence and procedures;

“Building a winning case” paper presented at the Natural Resources Conservation Autjhority in Kingston in 1999;

“Money laundering: making it everybody’s business” paper presented at the Credit Union League workshops (1999/2000);

“Corruption and the Judicial Officer: A Jamaican perspective“ paper presented at the Justice Education Institute of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States/Commonwealth Magistrates & Judges Association held in St Lucia (2013)

“Balancing justice: An overview of the judicial role in criminal paper trials… etc” (2014).

NATIONAL AWARD

The Jamaican Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD) for outstanding service to the judiciary and the legal profession (August 2017) Justice Aruna Devi Narain (Mauritius), member, 1 August 2017- Qualifications:

• LL.B, London School of Economics, University of London (1990) • LL.M, London School of Economics, University of London {1992) • Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, London and to the Mauritian Bar (1992)

Relevant Work Experience: • Joined Attorney-General's Office of Mauritius in 1998. Served successively as State Counsel, Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, Assistant Solicitor-General and Parliamentary Counsel. Have appeared as Counsel for the State before all Courts and many statutory tribunals of Mauritius. • Appointed (part-time) Chairperson of the National Pension Appeals Tribunal in April 2015. • Appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius in July 2015. • Joined Attorney-General's Office of Mauritius in 1998. Served successively as State Counsel, Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, Assistant Solicitor-General and Parliamentary Counsel. Have appeared as Counsel for the State before all Courts and many statu tory tribunals of Mauritius. • Appointed (part-time) Chairperson of the National Pension Appeals Tribunal in April 2015. • Appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius in July 2015. • Appointed Designated Judge, one of the 6 Judges of the Supreme Court specialized in international arbitration matters, in October 2015.

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• One of the main legal advisers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1994 and 2015. Have worked on various complex international law issues on behalf of the Government of Mauritius. • Part-time Lecturer in "Law of Evidence" (1995- 1999 ) and "Constitutional Law" {2004- 2011), Council of Legal Education. Member of the Board of Examiners in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Member of the ream that undertook the revision of the laws of Mauritius together with Lexis-Nexis Butterworths (Pty) Ltd (between 200i and2015).

Chief Programme Officer, Criminal Law Section, Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London. (September 200S-April 2004). Have in that capacity worked on cases scheduled before the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal.

Resource-person/Consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat /United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on several occasions between 2002 and 2015 (on various issues including international cooperation in criminal matters, asset recovery, the International Criminal Court and counter-terrorism).

Regularly attended and participated in meetings of Senior Officials of Law Ministries

of the Commonwealth between 2004 and 2015.

Have appeared before a number of human rights treaty bodies (Human Rights Committee, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Committee against Torture, Committee on the Rights of the Child) for the purpose of presenting and defending Government reports.

Member of Government delegation at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of

Mauritius before the Human Rights Council (i008).

Member of the team from the Government of Mauritius that defended the submission for an extended continental shelf made to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf between 2009 and 2016.

Deputy Agent for Government of Mauritius in arbitral proceedings brought by Mauritius against the UK in relation to the Chagos Archipelago.

• Deputy Electoral Commissioner, Village Council Elections, 2012, and General Elections, 2014. • Member of the Law Reform Commission (2011-5). • Publications include "Technology in Court: the Mauritian Experience" (Commonwealth Judicial Journal, Vol 18 no 4, December 2010) and "Preparing for Piracy Trials in Mauritius" (Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Volume S9, No 1, March 2013).

Administration

Secretary – Mr R.C. Nzerem