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China’s top court appoints four Africans to legal team for handling belt and road disputes
- Specialists from Uganda, Nigeria, Algeria and Egypt named among 24 members of the Expert Committee of the China International Commercial Court
- Former chief justice of Uganda Bart Katureebe says he is ‘profoundly excited’ to have been selected
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China’s Supreme People’s Court has appointed four Africans to a panel of international law experts to help deal with legal issues related to Beijing’s global infrastructure development programme known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
The quartet – former chief justice of Uganda Bart Katureebe, former attorney general and justice minister of Nigeria Christopher Adebayo Ojo, Algerian judge and former president of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi Fatsah Ouguergouz, and the director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration in Egypt Ismail Selim – were among 24 experts in Chinese and foreign law appointed on Tuesday to the Expert Committee of the China International Commercial Court (CICC) on adjudication of international commercial disputes.
The committee, which also includes 11 people from mainland China, one each from Hong Kong and Macau, and seven other foreigners, will serve for the next four years.
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“I am profoundly excited about this appointment, for it is a high-level committee that will keep me professionally connected,” Katureebe said of his appointment.
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The committee mediates on international commercial disputes and provides expert opinion and advice, primarily in relation to the implementation of China’s belt and road plan and settlement of any associated disputes.
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