HKA is a Silver Sponsor of the Johannesburg Arbitration Week 2024 (JAW2024)

HKA is excited to be part of the Johannesburg Arbitration Week 2024 as a Silver Sponsor. JAW, hosted by the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa, and co-hosted by leading solicitor firms, bars and stakeholders as founding members of AFSA, unpacks the issues and challenges in the fast-changing world of international commercial arbitration. The event also pays particular attention to the key initiatives which are shaping and transforming dispute resolution in Africa. These include:

• Activating the AFSA Alliance which brings together the Law Societies of the 16 States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in order to harmonise and standardise arbitration practice under the AFSA International banner.
• Linking the leading arbitration centres of Africa so as to generate a shared jurisprudence and code of practice.
• Adopting the distinctive CAJAC model for resolving trade and commercial disputes along the African Belt and Road and in the formation of a BRICS arbitral mechanism.

JAW is a 3-day event involving plenary and breakaway sessions led by speakers and panels of international eminence. It includes exciting side-events, in which participants can socialise, network and sample the best of the South African wines.