Honorable Justice (Rtd.) Alnashir Visram is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and a CEDR- accredited Mediator and Trainer, with over 50 years’ experience in dispute resolution.
Justice Visram has served in the Kenyan Judiciary for a period spanning over 20 years, where he was a designated Judge of the High Court of Kenya from 1999 and 2009, and was then elevated to the Court of Appeal of Kenya in 2009 during which time the Court of Appeal was the highest court in the land. Upon his retirement in 2019, he was appointed by the then President of Kenya, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, to chair various tribunals constituted to carry out investigations into the conduct of several judges following citations issued by the Judicial Service Commission.
Justice Visram has over 23 years’ experience in Mediation and has trained approximately 300 mediators in Kenya, India, UK, Uganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo. He was a member of the Judiciary Task Force for Implementation of Court-Annexed Mediation, and between 2015 and 2019, he was the Chairperson of the Mediation Accreditation Committee, a statutory body mandated to admit and provide certification to mediators applying to practice mediation in Kenyan Courts. He is currently the African representative at the International Conciliation and Arbitration Board. He was ranked top 40 arbitrators in Kenya by the Africa Lawyer Magazine.
Upon his retirement from the Judiciary, Justice Visram has been appointed to sit as arbitrator in a number of commercial disputes relating to contracts and insurance law.
Judge Visram has relevant experience in Anti – Money Laundering and Asset Chasing / Tracing, and he has heard and determined a number of landmark cases in this respect.
His experience spans across Kenya, Pakistan and Canada.
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