LL.M. Programme in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
Speaker: Toby Landau KC
Moderator: Olga Boltenko, Partner at Fangda Partners, Hong Kong; Adj. Associate Professor, HKU
Date: 7 December 2022
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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About the Speaker:
Toby Landau KC is a barrister, advocate and arbitrator, and a member of the Bars of England & Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI and Northern Ireland, and is registered in the DIFC. He practises in London as a sole practitioner and in Singapore from Duxton Hill Chambers (Singapore Group Practice). As Counsel, he has had a broad commercial and international practice in London since 1994 and in Singapore since 2017. He has argued hundreds of major international commercial, investor-State and inter-state arbitrations, as well as ground-breaking cases in the highest courts of England, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Caribbean including, by way of example, Dallah v Pakistan; Jivraj v Hashwani; Ust-Kamenogorsk v AES; IPCO v NNPC; Enka v Chubb and Halliburton v Chubb before the UK Supreme Court; Minister of Finance / 1MDB v IPIC and Janah v Benkharbouche before the English Court of Appeal; First Media v Astro in the Courts of Singapore and Hong Kong; and Hubco v Wapda in the Pakistan Supreme Court.
About the Talk:
Advocacy in international arbitration comes to the fore at cross-examination, a common law inspired practice that seeks to ascertain the true recollection of events by witnesses of facts, and to extract the absolute truth in expertise presented by experts. Toby Landau KC is an undisputed master of cross-examination, having acted as counsel is some of the most challenging arbitrations of our times, but also having observed others cross-examine witnesses and experts at hearings where he acted as arbitrator.
In this academic fireside chat with the HKU LLM ADR, Toby Landau KC, in conversation with our Deputy Executive Director Olga Boltenko, will explore the advocacy skill of cross-examination. The academic fireside chat draws inspiration from the keynote address by Toby Landau KC at the annual Kaplan lecture in Hong Kong n 2010 “Tainted Memories: Exposing the Fallacy of Witness Evidence in International Arbitration.
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