B v A (Rev 1)

Michael Black QC (instructed by Messrs SC Andrew) for the Claimant Vernon Flynn QC (instructed by Messrs Latham & Watkins) for the Defendant Hearing dates: 28 & 29 April 2010 ____________________

It is this issue which I directed to be determined and which I must now determine.

i) Mr Thomas H. Webster, a Canadian lawyer in practice since 1979, now practising in Paris but also admitted to the Bar in New York, as an English solicitor and as an avocat in France, with wide experience of international arbitration.

ii) Mrs Teresa Zueco Pena, a Spanish lawyer, also admitted to the Bar in Brussels and, at the time of her appointment as arbitrator, shortly to sit for admission in New York. She has practised since 2000 in Madrid, Brussels and New York. The materials before me do not disclose the extent of her previous experience either of sitting as arbitrator or of conducting international arbitration.

iii) As Chairman, Mr Van Vechten Veeder QC, an English barrister with very wide experience of international arbitration.