Gavan Griffith QC
2005-2007
Gavan Griffith QC practices as a barrister and international chartered arbitrator in Melbourne and also at Essex Court Chambers, London. He was Solicitor-General of Australia from 1984 to 1997. He appeared as counsel and agent for Australia at the International Court of Justice. He has had various international appointments, including as Leader of Australia's Delegation, and sometime Vice-Chairman, of the United Nations International Trade Law Commission (UNCITRAL) including in sessions for the adoption of the UNCITRAL Model Law of International Commercial Arbitration at Vienna in 1985. He was Consultant Counsel to the United Nations New York 1994-1995. Amongst other appointments he was Leader of the Australian Delegation to The Hague Conference on Private International Law 1992-1998, Member, and sometime Chairman, of INTELSAT Panel of Legal Experts 1988 to 1997, and Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague 1987 to 1999. He is a Member of the Panel of Arbitrators at the International Centre for Settlement Investment Disputes (ICSID) and of various other arbitral institutions. He holds a D.Phil from Oxford University and has been a sometime fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. He now practices substantially as counsel and as chairman or member of international Tribunals.
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