Lawyers

James Whelan

Mr Whelan is one of the foremost Arabic/English legal translation experts, and has more than 40 years’ experience as a lawyer, including 16 years legal practice in the United Arab Emirates. Mr Whelan acts as a consultant to Hatem Abbas Ghazzawi & Co to supervise complex legal translation tasks.

BORN: 1944

NATIONALITY: British

EDUCATION: Pembroke College, Cambridge with first class honours in Arabic, Persian and Hindi, 1967

ADMITTED: Called to the Bar of England and Wales, 1973; Admitted as a solicitor, England and Wales, 1980; Admitted in the United Arab Emirates, 1994

PUBLICATIONS: Mr Whelan's Arabic to English translations have been published in the following standard works:

• "The Maritime Laws of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council States" (1986)
  
• "The Civil Code of the United Arab Emirates" (1987)
  
• ''UAE Civil Code and Ministry of Justice Commentary 2010'' (2010)
  
• Thomson Reuters/Affinitext electronic library of the legal principles from the judgments of the UAE Federal and Dubai Courts of Cassation for the years 2000 to 2010