QFC Civil and Commercial Court

Judges
President
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf of Barnes , was appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in 2001, the most senior judicial post in Scotland, and in 2003 was created a Life Peer in the United Kingdom House of Lords.

Justices  
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Cullen of Whitekirk KT was appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in 2001, the most senior judicial post in Scotland, and in 2003 was created a Life Peer in the United Kingdom House of Lords.

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Scott of Foscote was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the UK in 2000, having been previously appointed to the High Court in 1983 and the Court of Appeal in 1991. He served as a Privy Counsellor, as Vice-Chancellor, Head of the Chancery Division in England and Wales, and Head of Civil Justice. He was appointed a non-permanent member of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal.

The Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Gibson was appointed a High Court judge in 1981 and a judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 1984. He was Chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales and in 1993 was appointed to the Court of Appeal. He was previously a barrister and was retained by the UK Government in high profile cases involving tax, corporation law and chancery commercial disputes.

The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene became a High Court judge in 1994 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2000. He is a member of the England and Wales Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. From 2003 to 2007 he was Chairman of the Judicial Studies Board, training judges and magistrates in England and Wales. He was UK Chairman of the Franco-British Judicial Cooperation Committee.

The Hon. Ronald Sackville AO has had a distinguished academic and policy making career in Australia, having occupied academic posts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. He practiced as a senior barrister in Australia and was appointed as a judge to the Federal Court of Australia in 1994, retiring in 2008. He was Chair of the Judicial Conference of Australia from 2004 to 2006 and is currently an acting judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Barbara Dohmann QC is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom specializing in banking and finance, commercial litigation, financial services and insurance law. She appears regularly in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, in arbitrations as well as Regulatory and Disciplinary Tribunals and has extensive experience of large commercial disputes in foreign jurisdictions.

Dr. Hassan Al-Sayed is former Dean of the College of Law at Qatar University. He practices in constitutional law, administrative disputes and state contracts. He has been appointed to numerous committees including the International Centre for Dialogue between religions and the Bar Admission Committee.

Executive Staff
Administration
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Musgrove is Chief Executive Officer at the QFC Civil and Commercial Court and Regulatory Tribunal.  He was formerly Chief Executive of the Civil Justice Council, an advisory body on civil justice reform based in London.  He was closely involved with the civil justice system in England and Wales for more than twenty five years, working variously in Government policy, research, and advisory roles.

Judicial Officer
Acting Registrar
Christopher Campbell-Holt is Acting Registrar at the QFC Civil and Commercial Court and Regulatory Tribunal.  He oversees the management of all casework and works closely with the Judges in his quasi-judicial capacity on procedural case matters.  Previously he worked at Norton Rose LLP, an international law firm, where he co-founded a specialist litigation practice group across the firm's international offices and co-founded the Centre for Ethics and Law at University College London.  He has lectured widely and produced publications on commercial and civil law, ethics and administrative law.