COVID-19: Some Legal Implications

fri23oct8:15 pm9:50 pmCOVID-19: Some Legal Implications8:15 pm - 9:50 pm(GMT+00:00)

Event Details

Join us online for our programme at https://www.youtube.com/sicmtv/live

Starting at 8:15pm with Qur’an Recitation followed by the main talk by Zahra al-Rikabi

Don’t forget to join us via Zoom for our live Q&A session using the details below

  ID: 862 8829 6906

 Password: 436 929

Time

October 23, 2020 8:15 pm - 9:50 pm(GMT+00:00)

Speaker

Zahra is a barrister at one of the UK’s top chambers: Brick Court Chambers. Legal 500 said she was ”in the ascendancy” and she was selected for the prestigious Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2020.  She is frequently instructed in high profile cases in her areas of practice.  Recently, she appeared in Canary Wharf v European Medicines Agency, the top case in The Lawyer’s top 20 Cases list for 2019, and she is currently instructed in Municipio de Marina and orsv BHP Group, which features in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases list for 2020.

She has a broad practice encompassing commercial litigation, public international law and public law.  She has appeared as sole counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal. She has also been led in cases before the Supreme Court and the Justice of the European Union.  Zahra has acted for a wide range of clients, including states and international organisations.  She is a native Arabic speaker which makes her well placed to deal with any domestic litigation or international arbitration where her language skills can be used.