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CTFIC0067/2025 Qatar Financial Centre Employment Standards Office v Expert Credit Solutions Consultancy LLC
16
February 2026
Time
10:00 AM - 16:00 PM
Category
Hearing
Location
On-premise
Court
Court of First Instance
Judges
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Hon. James Allsop AC
Australia
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Fritz Brand
South Africa
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Helen Mountfield KC
England
Hon. James Allsop AC
Australia
As a Barrister from 1981 and as Senior Counsel in New South Wales from 1984 and as Queens Counsel in Western Australia from 1998 Mr Allsop practised in a wide variety of areas primarily in commercial law.
His expertise from his experience as an advocate and Judge covers all areas of commercial law, including company law and business and partnership disputes, taxation, restrictive trade practices (anti-trust), intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial designs, contract and building and construction; with particular specialties in insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, maritime law and insolvency. Mr Allsop’s experience extends to public and constitutional law. His arbitral experience since April 2023 includes appointments under the ACICA and HKIAC rules, ad hoc arbitration and empanelment with the LCIA, AIAC, SIAC, SCMA and the LMAA as a supporting member.
Fritz Brand
South Africa
Fritz Brand has been a judge of the Qatar International Court since 2019.
Immediately after receiving his LL.B in 1972, he was appointed as senior lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, where he taught until the end of 1976. In 1977, he joined the Cape Bar where he practiced as an advocate until September 1992. During that period, he served on the Cape Bar Council for about ten years. In 1989, he received his letters patent as a senior counsel. In 1992, he was appointed as a judge of the High Court in Cape Town. After serving as an acting judge of appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein in 2000, he was appointed permanently to that court. In 2010, he was appointed as an acting judge to the Constitutional Court for two terms, retaining his permanent position on the Supreme Court of Appeal bench. Since his retirement from that Court in 2015, he has been appointed to the Appeal Court of Botswana and to the Supreme Court of Fiji - positions which he still holds.
Helen Mountfield KC
England
Helen Mountfield KC has been a judge of the Qatar International Court since 2019.
She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1991 and appointed Silk in 2010. She has a wide-ranging practice, particularly in the fields of Administrative and Public Law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties and Employment Law. She is particularly well-known for cases concerning discrimination and equality questions as they arise in public law, employment, commercial and other contexts. Helen is on the Equality & Human Rights Commission’s panel and sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Administrative Court, a civil and criminal Recorder, and on the Courts of Appeal of Jersey & Guernsey. She is Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.
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