The Gazette 1976

GAZETTE

March 1976

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION Progress report for the year 1975 1. Section on General Practice This Section was formed in 1974 and membership is open to all lawyers, being members of the Inter- national Bar Association, who practise in the non- commercial fields e.g. Real Property, Town and Country Planning, Wills and Administration of Foreign Estates, Trusts and Trusteeship, Family Law, Estate Duty and Tax Planning, Criminal Law, Legal Education and Continuing Legal Education, Organisation and Devel- opment of the Legal Profession, Civil Procedures and "No Fault" Insurance. Over the past year fourteen committees of the Section have been set up, chairmen appointed and the membership now stands at about 350. The first meeting of the Section Council and committee chairmen was held in Paris on 31 October 1975. 2. Section on Business Law Section membership is now approaching 2,500 and its second Conference took place in Paris on October 30 and 31 attended by 981 members and guests. Twenty committees met, some holding joint meetings with other committees. The Section journal, The International Business Lawyer, is now published quarterly and the January 1976 issue will contain reports on all the committee meetings. Bar Associations and Law Socie- ties may subscribe to the journal at an annual subscrip- tion of US $25. 3. Seminars The first International Bar Association Seminar on "World Energy Laws" was organised in Stavanger, Norway, on 5 to 8 May 1975 in co-operation with the Norwegian Bar Association and the German Bar Association. The standard of speakers was extremely high and the papers have been published. Copies may be obtained from the Director-General at US $50 per copy. The International Bar Association plans to organise further Seminars on subjects of international interest outside the normal scope of Bar Associations' Continuing Education programmes. 4. Stockholm Conference 1976 The working and social programmes for this confer- ence are now complete and details have been sent to all members, patrons and associate members. 5. Preliminary arrangements have been made for the 1978 conference to be in Sydney, Australia in mid- September. 6. Council Meeting A meeting of the Council was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 23 and 24, 1975, when the main topic consid- ered was the programme and arrangements for the Stockholm Conference. 7. International Code of Professional Ethics Work has continued on revision of Rules 1, 6, 10, 13, 14, 17 and 19 of the Code which were proposed at the 1974 International Bar Association Conference in Vancouver. The revised code will be submitted for approval by the General Meeting at the Stockholm Conference. 8. Revision of International Bar Association Constitution and By-Laws During the past year a committee of Council mem- bers has been considering amendments to the Consti- tution and By-Laws to provide for a more active parti- cipation in the affairs of the Association by individual

lawyers. These amendments will be put before the General Meeting in Stockholm. 9. Ombudsman The International Bar Association Committee on Ombudsman has been extremely active. It publishes a monthly newsletter on developments and has appointed an Academic Advisory Board to assist the Committee in its work. An open meeting of Ombudsman is planned during the Stockholm Conference. 10. Draft Treaty on International Powers of Attorney Negotiations are continuing to find a government or governments to sponsor this draft treaty before the United Nations. The treaty was prepared by a special committee of the International Bar Association. 11. Discussions with the Union Internationale des Avocats T he Joint Committee of Members of the International Bar Association and U.I.A. has met twice during the past year. The International Bar Association has again proposed to the U.I.A. that fusion should be the long- term objective of the two associations and that in the short term U.I.A. members be invited to attend the International Bar Association's Conference in Stock- holm, International Bar Association members to be invited to the U.I.A. 1977 Conference and that a joint conference of both Associations be held. 12. Standing Committees As a non-governmental organisation in consultative status with the United Nations and the Council of Europe, many communications have been received and referred to the respective chairman of the United Nations Affairs Committee and the European Affairs Committee. Both the United Nations and the Council of Europe are in the process of establishing a permanent Standing Committee of non-governmental organisations to play an active part in the formation of policies. 13. Publications A complete record of the 1974 Vancouver Conference was published in the November 1974 issue of the International Bar Journal. This journal is published bi-annually in May and November. Pamphlets on Summary of Labor Law Practices and Procedures, The Regulations of Trading by Insiders in the United States, England, France and West Ger- many and New Types of Instruments on the Inter- national Money Market with special emphasis on Participation Agreements have been published by the section on Business Law. The International Business Lawyer is published in January, April, July and October. Directories of the members, patrons and associate members of the International Bar Association and of the members of the section of Business Law were pub- lished in May and July 1975. 14. New Members During the year the Bahamas Bar Association, the Barbados Bar Association, the Bar Association of India and the Bar Council (States of Malaya) were elected members and the following have notified their intention of applying for membership: Consiglio dell-Ordine Avvocati Procuratori di Milano (Milan), Association of Legal Practitioners (Guyana), and l'Union des Barreaux de Turquie (Turkey). The Law Society of New South Wales (Australia), the Society of Advocates of Natal (South Africa), the Organisation of Commonwealth Carribean Law Soci- eties and the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet (Scot- land) have been elected sustaining members. T . C . G . LUND ( D i r e c t o r - G e n e r a l)

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