Practice Areas
Mubarak acts as in high-value litigation and arbitration disputes both as sole counsel and led. His practice spans all core areas of commercial, public international, insurance, civil fraud and employment law.
Mubarak is particularly experienced in handling disputes with an international element, including disputes for and against sovereign States. He is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and in the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Mubarak is currently instructed on a broad spectrum of commercial work in the English Courts, including worldwide freezing injunctions, commercial cases and insurance work.
Mubarak also has extensive experience in arbitration proceedings, in particular under the LCIA, ICC and ICSID Rules and LMAA terms, and ad hoc arbitrations in ‘Bermuda Form’ insurance arbitrations.
Career
‘Citing Religious Texts in Individual Opinions of Judgments of the International Court of Justice’, in Who is the Judge? Identity and Diversity on the International Bench (OUP 2021 forthcoming)
‘ITLOS at 20: Provisional Measures and the Precautionary Approach’, in Diamond and Minas (eds), Stress Testing the Law of the Sea: Dispute Resolution, Disasters & Emerging Challenges (Brill 2018)
‘Article 28’ in da Silva, Haeck and Wood (eds), Weapons and International Law: The Arms Trade Treaty (2015 Larcier) (with Penelope Nevill)
‘The Citation of Religious Texts in the International Court of Justice’, at Religion and Ethnicity on the International Bench (4 October 2018, Leiden University, Den Haag Campus)
‘Provisional Measures at ITLOS: Looking Back and Looking Ahead’ at The Law of the Sea—Beyond Sovereignty? (1 October 2016), King’s College London
