Final Programme - International Bar Association
Final Programme - International Bar Association
Final Programme - International Bar Association
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Working sessions – Monday<br />
70<br />
Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and<br />
1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through<br />
the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea<br />
station to this session is in the Liffey Meeting Room Corridor,<br />
Level 1. Tea and coffee will also be served, during these times,<br />
in The Forum on Ground Level.<br />
LIFFEY MEETING ROOM 1, LEVEL 1<br />
Beyond the tipping point: is mankind<br />
populating itself into extinction?<br />
Presented by the Public Law Committee.<br />
Session highlighted as part of the President’s focus for the IBA<br />
Task force on ‘Challenges for the Legal Profession post Global<br />
financial Crisis’.<br />
Session Chair<br />
Bernard Bekink University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Chair,<br />
Public Law Committee<br />
In October 2011, the international media reported that the world<br />
population has reached the seven billion mark. Notwithstanding<br />
this apparent ‘achievement’, the United Nations is further predicting<br />
that human population growth is set to continue and could even<br />
accelerate to reach the nine billion mark during the middle of the<br />
21st century.<br />
Although different formulae can be used to predict population<br />
growth, the fact remains indisputable that such growth will continue<br />
and that it will create various challenges and even possible conflicts.<br />
Issues of concern that have already been identified are food security,<br />
resource protection, housing, social security, health care, job creation,<br />
economic prosperity, energy generation, state security, sustainable<br />
development and environmental conservation. The aim of this session<br />
is to discuss and debate the above-mentioned public law issues and<br />
to identify proactive steps that governments should take to plan and<br />
address the issues in advance.<br />
Speakers<br />
Christo Botha University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Officer,<br />
Public Law Committee<br />
Hachem El Husseini Abou Jaoude & Associates, Beirut, Lebanon<br />
Tatiana Falcão IBFD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br />
Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130<br />
and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates<br />
through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/<br />
tea station to this session is in the Wicklow Meeting Room<br />
Corridor on Level 2.<br />
WICKLOW MEETING ROOM 3, LEVEL 2<br />
Breaking up is hard to do: the private<br />
entrepreneur in their mid-life crisis<br />
Joint session with the Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises<br />
Committee and the Family Law Committee.<br />
Session Co-Chairs<br />
Horacio Bernardes Neto Motta Fernandes Rocha Advogados,<br />
São Paulo, Brazil; Council Member, Public and Professional Interest<br />
Division; Vice-Chair, <strong>Bar</strong> Issues Commission<br />
Gillian Rivers Collyer Bristow, London, England; Senior Vice-Chair,<br />
Family Law Committee<br />
The private entrepreneur in the midst of their mid-life crisis may put<br />
their privately or family owned business at risk. Questions of divorce,<br />
re-marriage, succession planning to the next generation and even<br />
death may arise in that context, all of which will impact on the private<br />
or family owned business. This joint session of the Closely Held<br />
and Growing Business Enterprises Committee with the Family Law<br />
Committee will assemble legal as well as business specialists from all<br />
over the globe to provide their insight into the topic. They will review<br />
the challenges and implications to this not uncommon situation, both<br />
from a corporate as well as from a family law perspective.<br />
Speakers<br />
Adrienne Cawley Law Library, Dublin, Ireland<br />
Laura Devine Laura Devine Solicitors, London, England<br />
Nicholas Hemens Haldanes, Hong Kong SAR<br />
Martin Kovnats Aird & Berlis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada<br />
Alberto Navarro Navarro Castex Abogados, Buenos Aires,<br />
Argentina; Council Member, Public and Professional Interest Division<br />
Hideaki Roy umetsu Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Tokyo, Japan<br />
Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130<br />
and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates<br />
through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/<br />
tea station to this session is in the Wicklow Meeting Room<br />
Corridor on Level 2.<br />
WICKLOW MEETING ROOM 2, LEVEL 2<br />
BRICS: trade and investment activities in<br />
2012 and beyond<br />
Presented by the IBA Regional Fora.<br />
Session Co-Chairs<br />
Jeffrey A Blount Fulbright & Jaworski, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair,<br />
Asia Pacific Regional Forum<br />
Vassily Rudomino Law Firm ALRUD, Moscow, Russian Federation;<br />
Council Member, IBA Council<br />
Eduardo Sanguinetti Sanguinetti Fodere Abogados, Montevideo,<br />
Uruguay; Co-Chair, Latin American Regional Forum<br />
Ashwin Hirjee Trikamjee Garlicke & Bousefield, Umhlanga, South<br />
Africa; Chair, African Regional Forum<br />
The increasingly important role that the BRICS economies play in<br />
the global economy is an important trend affecting global legal<br />
practice. This panel will analyse current developments affecting trade<br />
and investment among the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia,<br />
India, China and South Africa. It will focus on developments and<br />
issues relating to trade and investment among the BRICS countries<br />
themselves, and between those countries and Europe, the United<br />
States and other developed markets. In addition to a discussion of<br />
relevant legal and regulatory matters, this panel will address cultural<br />
and practical issues encountered by practitioners in this area.<br />
The session will be immediately followed by a book launch for the<br />
recently joint-published IBA/Kluwer Law title ‘Competition Law in the<br />
BRICS Countries’<br />
Speakers<br />
Antonio Corrêa Meyer Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice<br />
Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil<br />
Todd Crider Simpson Thacher & <strong>Bar</strong>tlett, São Paulo, Brazil<br />
Rukshad Davar Majmudar & Partners, Mumbai, India<br />
Gareth Driver Werksmans Attorneys, Johannesburg, South Africa<br />
Andrey Gorodissky Law Firm Andrey Gorodissky and Partners,<br />
Moscow, Russian Federation<br />
Janet Hui Jun He Law Offices, Beijing, China<br />
Abhijit Joshi AZB & Partners, Mumbai, India<br />
Peter Leon Webber Wentzel, Johannesburg, South Africa<br />
Donna Li AllBright Law Office, Shanghai, China<br />
Vladislav Zabrodin Capital Legal Services, Moscow, Russian Federation<br />
Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and<br />
1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through<br />
the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea<br />
station to this session is in the Liffey Meeting Room Corridor,<br />
Level 1. Tea and coffee will also be served, during these times,<br />
in The Forum on Ground Level.<br />
LIFFEY MEETING ROOM 2, LEVEL 1