News
December 2007

New appointments to ICC Court

The ICC International Court of Arbitration welcomes two new members and a new alternate member to its ranks, following appointments made by ICC’s World Council at its meeting in Paris on 30 November 2007.

Mr Philip Yang and Mr Audley Sheppard were appointed members for Hong Kong and New Zealand respectively, and Mr Gideon Fisher alternate member for Israel.

Mr Yang is a practising arbitrator with particular experience in shipping and international trade. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, the Chartered Institute of Logistic and Transport and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, whose Hong Kong branch he chaired between 1990 and 1992. He also teaches at the law schools of the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong.

Mr Sheppard is a practising lawyer with over twenty years’ experience of international dispute resolution. He is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, as well as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.

Mr Fisher heads a law firm in Israel, where his specializations include business and international trade law, litigation and arbitration. He has also lectured at Israeli several universities and business institutions and he chairs ICC Israel’s Arbitration Committee.

These new appointments bring the total number of Court members to 126, from 88 countries and territories.

The broad range of legal, cultural, linguistic and professional traditions represented within the ICC Court makes it ideally suited to handling an increasingly global caseload.

Click here  to see a full list of Court members.