His Honour Eugene Cotran
LLD, FCIArb, Chartered Arbitrator 

Chambers are delighted to announce that former joint Head of Chambers (at 2 Paper Buildings) His Honour Eugene Cotran continues his association with Argent Chambers providing arbitration and legal consultancy services.

Eugene Cotran was called to the Bar in 1959 and practiced principally in the Privy Council, Commonwealth law and Immigration law at 2 Paper Buildings. He is also a member of the Bar of several Commonwealth African Countries. At the same time he joined the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where he carried out extensive research in African law and a Restatement of African Law for the Kenyan Government. He thereafter became a Lecturer at the School. His extensive publications resulted in an LLD awarded by the University of London.

In 1977 he was appointed a High Court Judge in Kenya and served there until 1982.

On return to London and until 1992, he resumed his practice in the same fields at 2 Paper Buildings and rejoined SOAS as a Visiting Professor and Chairman of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law. During practice he acted as Constitutional Advisor in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya, Brunei and Palestine (where he has been serving on the Board of Commissioners of the Palestinian Independent Commission of Human Rights).

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Arbitrator and acted as Chairman or member of various international arbitrations conducted by the ICC, LCIA and the Euro-Arab Arbitration system.

He was appointed a Recorder in 1989 and a Circuit Judge in 1992. He also sat as a chairman of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal. He retired from the Circuit bench in 2007 and pursues his work at SOAS, sits as an International Arbitrator and provides legal consultancy in the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf. He is a Consultant to the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Civil and Commercial Court and its Judiciary.

If you would like to discuss any of the consultancy services provided by His Honour Professor Eugene Cotran, please contact Chambers.