Vlad Movshovich

Practice Areas

Vlad has represented parties in some of the most high profile litigation in South Africa in recent years, at all levels of the court system (including the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, High Courts, Competition Appeal Court, Competition Tribunal, Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court), in specialised regulatory tribunals (including the IRBA, IISA and SAICA disciplinary committees and the Financial Services Tribunal), before parliamentary committees and commissions of enquiry, and in domestic and international arbitrations (including under the auspices of institutional rules of ICSID, LCIA, AFSA, ICC, PCA, AASA and the Chinese Arbitration Association, as well as UNCITRAL and other ad hoc arbitration rules).

Vlad has presented papers at numerous international arbitration conferences and has published in the field of international arbitration, comparative, constitutional and international law. Vlad is a member of the Consultative Workshop on Cooperation Among African Arbitral Initiatives; is a director of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA), an umbrella international arbitration body based in Kigali, and has lectured extensively on a variety of legal subjects, including training seminars presented to business leaders, judges and practitioners throughout the African continent and beyond, as well as the international arbitration LLM course at the University of Cape Town.

Career

Vlad's qualifications include:

M.Litt, University of Oxford, 2006

BCL (cum laude), University of Oxford, 2005

LLB (cum laude), University of the Witwatersrand, 2004

BA (cum laude), University of the Witwatersrand, 2002

Attorney of the High Court of South Africa

Solicitor of the Senior Courts in England and Wales - with Higher Rights of Audience (Civil Advocacy)

Professional Memberships

Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration's (ICCA) Working Group / task team for development of African Arbitral Practice, 2016 to present

Member of the Board of Directors, and Head of the Standards Committee, of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA), 2018 to present

Member of the Advisory Board of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) International, 2019 to present

Member of the Board of Reporters of the Centre for American and International Law (CAIL), 2018 to present

Member of the Discovery Health Medical Scheme Disputes Committee, 2019 to present