24 - 30 May 2001

Potential arbitrators undergo training

The Malta International Training Centre and the Malta Arbitration Centre recently launched for the first time two programmes of study for those interested in becoming arbitrators. The Minister of Justice, Dr Austin Gatt opened the programmes which were attended
by over 50 delegates from various professions.
The courses are the first of a series of activities intended to introduce and raise the profession of arbitration in Malta. The intention is to promote arbitration in Malta and then promote the centre for international arbitration cases.
The Malta International Train-
ing Centre is already working
on other similar programmes that will be held again in October.
More advanced programmes and specialised seminars will also be held. The MITC had started discussions with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1997 after Rosanne Galea, Principal of the MITC had visited the Institute’s headquarters in the UK. However it was only recently that an agreement was reached to offer the courses here in Malta.
The courses are being organised under the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration of the UK. The Institute is a charitable institute heavily involved in the promotion of Arbitration in many countries around the world. Jim Leckie vice- president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators spoke about the various membership grades and augured that the participants aim for fellowship status in the years to come.