ADR FORUM (PTY) - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Panel
- Mediator
Johan van Vuuren was born in Grootfontein, Namibia and marticulated at Outjo Secondary School. He obtained his B Proc degree at the University of the Free State in 1989 after part time studies. He was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1990. At the end of 1991 he returned to Namibia and was admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Namibia in January 1992 and practiced as such up to date. He has been practicing mainly in general civil litigation as well as criminal cases. Since 2014 he also acted as Mediator in various mediations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Panel
- Mediator and Arbitrator
Mr Miller obtained his BA in law at the University of Potchefstroom in 1969, and his LLB at the University of Natal in 1978. Since 1968 Mr Miller has been a prosecutor and magistrate, practised as an advocate at the Natal Bar and the Namibian Bar, practised as an attorney with MaCauly and Riddell in Ladysmith, Natal, and Conradie & Damaseb in Windhoek. In 1990 Mr Miller was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Namibia. Mr Miller was an Acting Judge of the High Court of Namibia from 2011 to 31 March 2017. Mr Miller has experience in company law as company secretary for Trustco Group Holdings Ltd, building disputes, banking law, insurance law, the law of intellectual property, labour law, matrimonial law, medical malpractice, parastatals, personal injury cases, property law, stock exchange, trademarks, trusts, unlawful competition and the law relating to water, mines, and minerals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Panel
- Mediator and Arbitrator )
Cecilia acts in arbitration as both party representative and as arbitrator, and focuses her practice on issues related to energy, infrastructure projects, construction, trust, joint ventures, transportation and logistics, insurance and reinsurance, cases involving governmental entities, amongst many others.
She graduated, with honors, from Universidad Panamericana, where she also completed postgraduate studies on international commercial law. She obtained her master's degree, with honors, at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an Energy Diploma at National University in Mexico (IIJ-UNAM).
Regarding the academia, Cecilia has been professor of arbitration for more than 20 years at the master's degree of LaSalle University and in the Diploma Course on Arbitration offered by the ICC and Escuela Libre de Derecho.