Dr Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky > The Law Counsel > Dhaka, Bangladesh > Lawyer Profile

Dr Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky

+88024-9349647 ishrak@thelcounsel.com

Work Department

Banking Law, Insurance Law

Position

Senior Associate

Career

2016-present: Senior Associate, The Law Counsel
2012- 2015: Associate, the Law Counsel
2008:  Enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.2005:  Enrolled as an Advocate by the Bangladesh Bar Council.
2005-2005: Associate, Rokanuddin Mahmud and Associates.
2004:  Called to the Bar of England and Wales from the Hon’ble Society of Middle Temple. 

Particulars of work experience: 

Administrative Law:  Extensive experience of drafting, conducting and contesting judicial review applications. Appeared on behalf of various clients in numerous judicial review applications challenging decisions of nationalised banks, various ministries of the Government of Bangladesh and a number of major state Corporations.

Banking Law: Represented various Banks including Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited in a number of cases before the High Court Division and the ArthaRinAdalats. Provided legal opinions to several banks including leading Islamic banks.

Corporate Law:  Matters including instituting    proceedings for rectification of share registers and drafting partnership agreements and Memorandum and Articles of Association. Drafted opinions and legal notices and instituted various legal proceedings on behalf of numerous companies. Provided legal assistance to various foreign companies in setting up subsidiary companies/liason offices in Bangladesh.

Energy Law:   Advised and drafted contracts for foreign companies and also nationalized oil and gas companies including Petrobangla.

Employment Law:   Represented clients before the Labour Tribunal and the Labour Appellate Tribunal.Provided legal opinions to several banks and private clients regarding various employment law issues.

Teaching and research experience in higher education:

2016: Visting Scholar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2013–present: Teaching as assistant professor (part-time) in asia pacific university for two modules: international organisation and alternative dispute resolution.

2011-2012: Taught as adjunct faculty in south east university, bangladesh for      three modules: private international law, international law of natural resources and water law and policy.                                         

2009-2011: Distance Learning Tutor cum Teaching Assistant at CEPMLP, University of Dundee for three modules: Environmental Law and Policy, Mineral and Petroleum Taxation and International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy.

 2008-2009: Teaching Assistant for the Mining Programme at CEPMLP, University of Dundee. My work involved collating the mining legislation for different countries in order to create a database, analyzing different mining legislations.

2007-2008: Teaching Assistant at CEPMLP, University of Dundee. My work involved assisting supervisors to carry out various legal research, summarizing articles, prepare power point slides.

2003-2004: Course Co-ordinator  for advocacy skills for young lawyers entering the High Court of Bangladesh conducted by the Bangladesh Bar Council.

2008-2010: Student Support Assistant under the Student Services at the University of Dundee. My jobs included providing pastoral care to students in the halls of residence and also help students with any academic difficulties including tuition or help with any other problems during their stay.

Professional Research and Consultancy Experience:

Study Guidelines: Contributed in the writing of the study guide for International Comparative Mineral Law and Policy for Distance learning students at the Centre for Energy Petroleum Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, 2009. Also contributed in the writing of the study guide for International Law of Natural Resources and Energy for Distance learning students at the Centre for Energy Petroleum Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee, 2011.

Independent Legal Consultancy and Report : ‘The legal aspects of exploration and drilling in South Asia’, independent legal consultant and contributor in a report for Futuretec Limited, an Aberdeen based drilling and casing company, 2008. ‘The legal and financial implications of disbursing loans for renewable energy in rural Bangladesh’, contributor in a report for Grameen Bank, a microfinance organization and winner of Noble Peace Prize, 2006.

Selected Publications
Articles:The Caspian Energy Scenario and the Pipelines of former Soviet Union. OGEL, 2008; The Caspian Energy Scenario and its Pipelines: Amalgamation of Interests? International Energy Law Review (IELR), 2009; The Energy and Transportation Policy of Kazakhstan. How wise is it? OGEL, March, 2010; Towards a New Framework for Cross-border Pipelines: An International Pipeline Agency? The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol 8, no.2, 2010; The Failure of ECT in resolving Cross-Border Pipeline Problems: Towards a New Framework for Cross-border Pipelines – The International Pipeline Agency (IPA) Energy Policy, August 2011.Co-editor of OGEL special issue on Cross-border Pipelines, OGEL, 2011 at www.ogel.org. Cross-border Pipelines and Cross- Border Waterways: a comparison between the two legal regimes, The journal of World Energy Law and Business, Oxford University Press, 2013. The International Legal Instruments for Cross-border Pipelines (chapter in a book), Research Handbook on International Energy Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, USA, 2014. Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: is Bangladesh ready for Nuclear Power? The journal of World Energy Law and Business, Oxford University Press, 2015

Books:The Energy Security of Bangladesh. Is Gas Export an Option for the Country? VDM publishers, 2009, ISBN-10: 3639194624;Cross-border Pipeline Arrangements: What would a single regulatory framework look like? :Kluwer Law International , December 2011, ISBN- 9789041148446.

Languages

English and Bengali

Memberships

SPE – Society of Petroleum Engineers,   Energy Institute,  Chartered Institute of Arbitration,  Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Supreme Court Bar Association, Hon’ble Society of Middle Temple.

Education

LL.B (Hons), University of Kent (UK), 2000-03
LLM, Energy Law & Policy, CEPMLP, University of Dundee (UK), 2005-06

PhD, Energy Law, CEPMLP, University of Dundee (UK), 2007 – 2011