11 April 2011

Mr Michael Swainston QC and Mr Edward Harrison (Brick Court Chambers, London, UK) for Al Mal Bank LLC

Ms Muna Al-Mutawa and Mr Hassan Saati (Law Office of Muna Yousef Al-Mutawa, Doha, Qatar) for Mr Taha Babiker

Mr Mohammed Al Mohanadi (Mohanadi & Partners, Doha, Qatar) absent at the hearing for Mr Nazim Omara

See also QFC Case No. 005/2010.

In the name of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar

President Lord Woolf, Justice Sir David Keene, Justice Lord Scott:

JUDGMENT

THE COURT :

1. This is a Judgment in respect of applications for permission to appeal of Mr Nazim Omara and Mr Taha Babiker. The applications are in relation to the decision of the First Instance Circuit of this Court (Justice Dohmann, Justice Lord Cullen and Justice Sackville) of 14 October 2010 making a determination that:

a) The Babiker Contract was executed before Mr Babiker's employment was terminated on 17 November 2009;