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Dr Ali Almihdar

Outer Temple Chambers shortlisted at The Legal 500 MENA Awards 2024

Outer Temple Chambers shortlisted at The Legal 500 MENA Awards 2024

Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Commercial Set of the Year and Commercial Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Middle East and North Africa Awards 2024. Outer Temple Chambers and Dr Ali Almihdar have been recognised in the Commercial category under the English Bar in the Middle East. The awards will be taking place on Thursday, 8 February 2024 at Mandarin Oriental Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE. These awards reflect the competency in providing expert advisory and advocacy services and facilities under Commercial Litigation in the Middle East. Outer Temple Chambers has been in the Middle East for close to a decade and our members close to 20 years. Members have been involved in some…

News 28 Nov, 2023

Launch of Outer Temple's ADR Service

Launch of Outer Temple’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Service

Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to share our new specialist ADR wing, a separate service provided and managed, independent of our counsel work. Members of Outer Temple Chamber’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Team include Adjudicators, Arbitrators, Mediators, Expert Witness and Determiners, Early Neutral Evaluation, and Conciliation experts, all with a mixed common and civil law background. Our neutrals accept appointments across a wide range of practice areas including commercial, construction, energy and natural resources, shipping, international trade, and personal injury with experience across Europe, Middle East, US, and Asia-Pacific. For further information please contact 0207 353 6381 or email adr@outertemple.com Visit our newly launched ADR wing here.

News 10 Nov, 2023

'International Construction Contracts in Saudi Arabia Demystifying Saudi Law and Shari'ah Principles in the Kingdom' by Dr Ali Almihdar and Joseph Chedrawe

‘International Construction Contracts in Saudi Arabia: Demystifying Saudi Law and Shari’ah Principles in the Kingdom’ by Dr Ali Almihdar

Dr Ali Almihdar has co-authored an article for International Construction Law Review on international construction contracts in the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia with Joseph Chedrawe of Covington & Burling. It has been said that the laws applicable to disputes arising in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are a black box – complicated, inaccessible, hidden, mysterious. For many years, Saudi Arabia has been home to some of the world’s biggest and most important construction projects. Alongside these projects has come the inevitability of international arbitration over disputes arising from them. While the disputed issues may be generally described as typical in construction law – contractual notice, non-payment, scope variations, limitation of liability, and damages – the applicable law may be counter-intuitive…

External Publications 14 Apr, 2023

Outer Temple Chambers is ranked as a commercial leader in the Middle East by Legal 500 EMEA

Legal 500 have announced their EMEA results and we are proud to announce that Outer Temple Chambers, and our barristers, have yet again been ranked for our commercial expertise at the English Bar in the Middle East. These rankings reflect competency in providing expert advisory and advocacy services and facilities for contract and commercial, financial, regulatory, taxation and trusts, employment and arbitration work in the UAE and across the Middle East. Outer Temple Chambers has a well-established presence in the Middle East, with a registered office and members on the ground. Legal 500 noted our particular expertise in commercial litigation and arbitration, company and employment law, shipping, and regulatory issues. Tier 2 Set Outer Temple Chambers has been ranked as a…

News 13 Apr, 2023

Members excel in Legal 500 EMEA 2022 Commercial Law rankings

Legal 500 have just announced their EMEA results and we are proud to announce that Outer Temple and a number of our members have been ranked for commercial expertise in the Middle East. These rankings reflect competency in providing expert advisory and advocacy services and facilities for contract and commercial, financial, regulatory, taxation and trusts, employment and arbitration work in the UAE and across the Middle East. Outer Temple Chambers is the first and only set of barristers’ chambers to have a registered office within the Dubai International Financial Centre (Part 1). Tier 2 Set Outer Temple Chambers has been ranked as Tier 2 set in the Middle East: The English Bar: Commercial guide. Testimonials provided to Legal 500 included:…

News 13 Apr, 2022

Members of Outer Temple ranked in Legal 500 EMEA

Following the release of The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 results, Outer Temple is proud to announce that several of our members have been ranked in the Middle East Guide for commercial law. Outer Temple has also been recognised as a Recommended Set of Chambers for commercial law. These rankings reflect our competency in providing expert advisory and advocacy services and facilities for our contract and commercial, financial, regulatory, taxation and trusts, employment and arbitration work in the UAE and across the Middle East. As the first and only set of barristers’ chambers to registered office within the Dubai International Financial Centre (Part 1), members have had a busy year working with DIFCA and the Dubai Financial Services Authority. The Legal…

News 16 Apr, 2021

Lissack and Horlick on Bribery and Corruption: The Middle East

Dr Ali Almihdar authored chapter 31 of Lissack & Horlick on Bribery and Corruption. Ali’s new chapter focuses on the scale of corruption in the Middle East and the major challenges it presents. As part of a serialisation of chapters that members of Outer Temple contributed to in this latest edition, the authors have been summarising their chapters every week. This Chapter is designed to provide a survey of one of the most lamentable traits in human behaviour. The geographical area that it is meant to cover is what is the Middle East and more specifically the Gulf Cooperation Council States. Its temporal span starts from before the advent of the religion of Islam in the Arabian peninsula to today’s…

External Publications 9 Dec, 2020

Publication of the Third edition of Lissack and Horlick on Bribery and Corruption

We are delighted to announce that the Third edition of Lissack and Horlick on Bribery and Corruption has been published by LexisNexis Butterworths. The practitioner’s book was edited by Fiona Horlick QC and Richard Lissack QC, and was contributed to by a number of Outer Temple members. In 2010, the UK’s law on bribery changed from a collection of ancient statutes, distorted in some cases by contradictory authority, to a single statute often regarded as one of the most rigorous, and wide-ranging in application, in the world. Since coming into force in 2011, numerous prosecutions were brought on the basis of the Bribery Act as well as five of the eight deferred prosecution agreements reached in the UK to date. It…

External Publications 30 Sep, 2020

Outer Temple Chambers – at GTAP and Private Investor Middle East

The Ulaanbaatar Declaration David Russell QC is one of the authors of The Ulaanbaatar Declaration, which was signed by the Global Tax Advisers Platform (“GTAP”) on 12 September 2018. The Declaration sets out key priorities in international taxation, and promotes international cooperation among tax advisers, and optimisation of the national and international taxation framework. GTAP is an international platform that gathers national and international organisations of tax professionals from all around the world. The representatives of CFE Tax Advisers Europe, The Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants’ Association, The West African Union of Tax Institutes, The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, The International Association of Financial Executives Institutes, and The Association of Mediterranean Auditors have all signed, presented and executed the Declaration.…

News 26 Sep, 2018

Outer Temple International gets BSB authorisation

Outer Temple Chambers currently operates in the Middle East and the USA and in various other parts of the world. Outer Temple Chambers has now set up a BSB regulated entity, Outer Temple International, to provide solicitor services on international casework. Some of that work comes through local and international law firms and some comes direct from individual and commercial clients. Outer Temple International (OTI) will therefore fill the current gap in the market and provide a streamlined legal service for our international clients. With the establishment of OTI, any work requiring solicitor services will now be referred to OTI which will then seek to instruct barristers from Outer Temple Chambers in the first instance. Michael Bowes QC, joint head…

News 7 Oct, 2016

Dr Ali Almihdar awarded by Saudi-British Society 2016

Dr Ali Almihdar is one of the two winners of the 2016 Rawabi Holding Awards. The annual awards, for making a significant contribution to Saudi-British relations, have previously gone only to British citizens. This year, for the first time, Dr Almihdar, a Saudi citizen was given the award. The awards are made by Sheikh Abdulaziz al Turki, a leading Saudi businessman from the Eastern Province. The candidates are chosen from a wide range of fields in which they have made a contribution, including; education, literature, journalism, sport, women’s affairs, welfare and medicine. The award-giving ceremony, which is an important part of the Saudi-British Society’s programme, was held in conjunction with the Society’s Annual Dinner, on 10th February 2016. The prizes…

News 19 Feb, 2016

Outer Temple in Dubai for Cirque du Loi

Members of Outer Temple Chambers and the director, Steve Graham, are in Dubai this week for the major legal social event of the year. The quaintly named “Cirque du Loi”, the annual legal gala dinner now in its third year, is “an all in celebration of the Dubai Legal Community for the benefit of the DIFC Courts Pro Bono programme”. Heads of Chambers, Andrew Spink QC and Michael Bowes QC are joined by Keith Bryant QC, Michael Patchett-Joyce, Benjimin Burgher, Ali Almihdar, David Russell QC, and Samir Salloum. Ali Almihdar is also head of Almihdar Law Firm in Jeddah and he holds the unique status of being the first Saudi Arabian lawyer qualified as a member of the English Bar.…

News 9 Oct, 2014

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