How I can help

 

I practice as both a Barrister and CMC Registered Mediator, and specialise in Contentious Probate, Cultural Heritage, Music and Performers’ Rights Disputes.

1 EC Barristers, 3 Kings Bench Walk North, Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HR (www.1ec.co.uk).

(Barrister Details – Mr Carl Amir-Ul Islam (barstandardsboard.org.uk)

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Member of the: Art and Cultural Heritage Law | 1EC; Trusts, probate, & estates | 1EC;  Tax | 1EC; & Arbitration & mediation | 1EC Practice Groups.

To arrange an obligation free Zoom call please email clerks@1ec.co.uk

Biography:

B.Soc.Sc (Keele) (Law & Political Science) (1st year subsidiary subjects: Human Biology & Psychology) (Joint-Honours)*, LLM (Exon)(International Business Legal Studies), Diploma in Art Law (Institute of Art & Law) (London), Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn), TEP, SCMA Accredited Mediation Advocate, MSoM, CMC Registered Mediator. Member of the Southeastern Circuit, Chancery Bar Association, STEP, and the Art Lawyers Association. Author of ‘Tax-Efficient Wills Simplified’ (Amazon Kindle): Tax-efficient Wills Simplified 2014/15: Amazon.co.uk: Carl Islam: 9781852527396: Books, the ‘Contentious Probate Handbook’ (published by the Law Society on 1 October 2016): Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World’s Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: ‘9781784460600’, and the ‘Contentious Trusts Handbook’:  Wildy & Sons Ltd — The World’s Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: ‘9781784461249’. I am also a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Ad Eundem), and dual qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court (remaining on the Roll). On 14.12.2023 I was appointed as an Advisory Board Member to the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates in London (https://scmastandards.com/).

*[Keele is a leading school of Political Science, International Relations & Diplomacy, see Keele Top 3 in England for Politics – Keele University]

I passed the Bar Finals exam when I was 23. My pupil masters at the Bar were David Marks KC (Chambers of Muir Hunter QC – now South Square Chambers); and Sir Nigel Davis KC (7 Stone Buildings – now Maitland Chambers). On completing pupillage I requalified as a solicitor, and was articled with Howard Kennedy (Trusts and Property); and Fox & Gibbons (Company Commercial), in Mayfair, London (which is now part of Dentons).

I then worked in-house for Rolls-Royce and Alstom (in Paris), tax structuring, drafting, and negotiating deals in multiple jurisdictions around the world (principally in the Far East, including China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and India), and resolving international commercial disputes. As a Mediation Advocate, I approach doing a deal in settlement of a commercial dispute with the benefit of that commercial experience and can apply a degree of ‘nous’. As a Mediator, I can also use my ‘commercial’ antennae to help parties re-frame their dispute as an opportunity.

The 2nd Edition of the ‘Contentious Probate Handbook’, has been published in print by the Law Society of England and Wales. The Law is stated as at 1 September 2024. You can order the book using one of the following links:

At 4pm GMT on Thursday 24 October 2024, I presented an online talk to members of the SCMA worldwide, about ‘Mediation Advocacy in Trust & Estate Disputes.’ Click on this link to play the video of my talk on YouTube: SCMA / ADR Group Seminar

My next live Zoom webinar to be presented to members of the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates worldwide in 2025 is entitled – ‘Mediation Advocacy in Music & Performers’ Rights Disputes.’

This is provisionally scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday 20 November 2025.

I am also writing an article about this for submission to the Journal of Mediation Theory and Practice in October for publication worldwide.

The working title of my next book is ‘Mediation of International Cultural Heritage Disputes – Anachronism, Orientalism, Culture, Ethics, Law, IPR & Contracts.’ – See the ‘International Cultural Heritage Disputes’ page at of this website.

In August 2026 I am also planning to launch a YouTube Channel – ‘Art and Civilization.’ See the corresponding page of this website.