Ali Almihdar
Ali Almihdar comes to the Bar of England and Wales with much experience of legal practice in the Middle East. Educated at Cambridge, (MA & LLM), his legal career started as Legal Adviser to the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and then expanded, through Almihdar Law Firm (ALF) which he established in Jeddah in 1976, to handling work for that Ministry and many other corporate and private clients from many parts of the world including the UK, the USA and Western Europe. He has been the Honorary Legal Adviser to the British Consulate in Jeddah since 1998
His work covers the full spectrum of commercial legal practice from advice to drafting to arbitrations to advocacy. Being equally comfortable working in either English or Arabic, he is well positioned to represent clients in the English and Saudi Courts and Official Circles, and in any other jurisdiction where his dual qualifications will gain him rights of audience. He is willing to consider working on a conditional fee basis.
Mr Almihdar has spoken on "The Means of Proof in the Shariah System of Law" and on "Rules of Evidence in Islamic Law". He is the author of the Saudi Arabian Chapter in Trolley's "International Succession Laws" (LexisNexis). He is also a holder of the official Saudi Translation Licence: Arabic to English and English to Arabic.
