IN CONVERSATION WITH NEIL K APL AN CBE QC SBS 09
W I T H T H A NK S T O T HE C ON T R I BU T OR S OF T HI S E XCH A NGE . . .
NEIL K APL AN CBE QC SBS, INDEPENDENT ARBITRATOR Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS has been a full-time practising arbitrator since 1995. During this period he has been involved in several hundred arbitrations as co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator or chairman. These arbitrations have included awide range of commercial, infrastructural and investment treaty disputes under the rules of the ICC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, SCC, ICSID and CIETAC. Called to the Bar of England andWales in 1965, Neil has practised as a barrister, Principal Crown Counsel at the Hong Kong Attorney General’s Chambers and served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in charge of the Construction and Arbitration List. From1991 until 2004, he was Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, and in 1999-2000 he was President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Since 1995, he has been a Council Member and nowGoverning BoardMember of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and in 2012 he became aMember of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Additionally, he is a panellist of several other arbitral institutions including CIETAC.
BETH CUBIT T, CLYDE & CO
Beth Cubitt is a partner in Clyde&Co Australia’s Perth office. Beth advises onmajor construction disputes (including mediation, expert determination, litigation and arbitration), cross-border disputes and international commercial arbitrations throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Beth has developed her practice in Australia over the past 13 years in Brisbane, Melbourne and, most recently, Perth. She is also a qualified lawyer in South Africawhere she acted for various commercial clients in respect of dispute resolution and the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts before moving to Australia in 2000. Beth is a national councillor of the Australian branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
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