Final Programme - International Bar Association

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