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Corporate 
& Commercial

Overview

Professor Ernest Kofi Abots, Dean of the UPSA Law School Ghana, is the convenor of the Corporate and Commercial Law  Committee with Anku Khanna (India) as vice convener, Nancy Williams (England and Wales) as Secretary and Hadassah Igoche (Nigeria) as the Young Lawyer respresentative.

The Convener invites CLA members to join this Committee, whose  mission is to lead efforts at promoting the corporate and commercial practice and policy within member states of the CLA and across the membership of the CLA. The committee especially aims at facilitating dialogue on issues affecting the growth of corporations, political economy of investments, Social Enterprise Revolution in Corporate Law and general commercial practice and economic enterprises within CLA member countries. The committee will do this through the development and publication of policy statements, conferences and exchange of knowledge, and undertaking relevant special projects.

The committee proceeds on the assumption that globalization has internationalized corporate and commercial activity and necessitated the need to mainstream issues that affect corporate and commercial law and policy across the commonwealth.

Knowledge sharing sub-commitees include :

  • Digital assets
  • Trade and investment
  • Mergers and Acquistions
  • Solvency and re-structuring

CLA members are encouraged to read the Committee’s Terms of Reference and email info@commonwealthlawyers.com to join this committee which meets every two months.

 

Next Meeting

15th March 2026

14:00 – 16:00 GMT

Virtual Meeting (Zoom)

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Terms of Reference

Download the committee’s official terms of reference and governance framework.

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Next Meeting Resources

Download the resources for our next committee meeting.

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Join the Committee

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committee’s work?

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Committee Co-Convenors

Dr. Sarah Williams

Dr. Sarah Williams is a leading constitutional law scholar with over 20 years of experience in human rights advocacy. She has advised governments across the Commonwealth on constitutional reform and has published extensively on comparative constitutional law. Sarah currently serves as Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of London and is a frequent contributor to international human rights tribunals.

Justice Michael Chen

Justice Michael Chen brings extensive judicial experience to the committee, having served on the High Court for 15 years. His landmark judgments on constitutional rights have shaped jurisprudence across multiple Commonwealth jurisdictions. Before his judicial appointment, Michael practiced as a human rights barrister and represented clients before the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee.

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