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At the AGM on 25 May 2011, 4 members were elected onto the Executive Committee for a 2-year term: Judge Fergus Blackie, Advocate Patrick Lane SC, Advocate Lee Harding and Miss Zarina Kellerman. Judge F C Blackie, Chairman Professor D W Butler, Vice Chairman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mr C D Binnington ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advocate R L Harding ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mr D J Joubert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ms Z Kellerman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advocate P M M Lane ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ms M C Marais ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor R I Schloss -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Judge Blackie was born in Rhodesia and studied an MA Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. From 1986 to 2002, he was a Judge of the High Court in Zimbabwe. He was a member and past President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators and a certified mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London. He specializes in general commercial and medical disputes. 
Professor Butler holds a BCom, LLB, LLD from the University of Stellenbosch. He was admitted as an attorney and worked as a professional assistant at Bisset, Boehmke and McBlain attorneys. In 1975, he took up the position of lecturer then senior lecturer then associate professor and now professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is a Commissioner of the Small Claims Court, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK and a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in general commercial matters with an emphasis on international commercial arbitration. 
Mr Binnington was born in the UK and holds an MBL from UNISA and a BscHons from the University of Wales in the UK. He worked at ISCOR, Murray and Roberts and CG Smith and Sugar and in 1984 he started Binnington Copeland and Associates. He is a member of the Committee of Preliminary Investigation at ECSA, past Chairman of the Association of Arbitrators, a member of the SA Institution of Mechanical Engineers and is a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in arbitration in all construction disciplines and is an expert on FIDIC, NEC, JBCC and GCC. 
Advocate Harding holds a BSc and MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand, an H Dip Arb from the Association of Arbitrators and an LLB from UNISA. He is presently a practising Advocate. He has worked for Foster Wheeler as Chief Civil Engineer, Integrated Property Services as Managing Director, Concor Construction as a Manager and a Construction Law Consultant at Binnington Copeland and Associates. He is a member of the SA Society for Professional Engineers, the SA Institute of Civil Engineers, a Professional Engineer for the Engineering Council of SA and a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in mediation, arbitration and construction related disputes. 
Mr Joubert holds a BAS BArch from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate of Resolution of Sectional Title Disputes. He is currently completing an LLB through UNISA. He was a director at PWP Architects and Designers and is currently a consultant at Binnington Copeland and Associates. He is a registered Architect with the SA Council of Architects, a member of the SA Institute of Architects, a registered Sectional Title Practitioner, Chief Surveyor General of the Department of Land Affairs and a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in building construction and sectional title disputes. 
Ms Kellerman holds a BA LLB (Wits), a FA Arb (Association of Arbitrators), is a CD/ACDS accredited mediator and holds a certificate in international commercial mediation through the United Nations. She is an attorney by profession and has 10 years litigation experience having worked at Edward Nathan & Friedland, Knowles Husain Lindsay and more recently as a partner at Eversheds. She currently runs her own ADR practice and is the Executive Director of the Association of Arbitrators. She is a member of the Black Lawyers Association, the Businesswomen’s Association, the International Bar Association, the London Court of International Arbitration and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She specializes in commercial mediation and arbitration.
Advocate Lane was born in Nigeria and holds a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was admitted to the bar in South Africa in 1977 and was called to the bar in England, Scotland and Wales in 1977. He is a member of the LCIA and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the UK as well as a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in construction law and both domestic and international arbitration. 
Ms Marais holds s BSc QS from the University of Port Elizabeth. She worked at CP de Leeuw, Anglo American, Turner and Townsend, Rocon Building and Pentad. She is currently self-employed. She is a member of the Association of SA Quantity Surveyors. She specializes in commercial disputes, construction and quantity surveying matters. 
Professor Schloss holds a BSc QS and BSc Building from the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked at Strickland Cholmley and Morgan and DOD Construction. He is presently a Professor and Head of Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in the UK, a member of the Association of SA Quantity Surveyors, President of the SA Institute of Building, Treasurer of the Association of Arbitrators and the National Soccer League, Executive member of the SA football Association and Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators. He specializes in construction mediation and arbitration. 
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