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INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
The 1972 Conference—Monte Carlo
'The Scene for the 14th Conference of the I.B.A. will
l>e set in Monte Carlo, during the Association's 25th
Anniversary year, from September 11th to 16th, 1972.
The
Tourist's Guide
says of the Conference Venue :
Monte Carlo, renowned throughout the world for
its beautiful setting, social life and elegance is only
a short distance from Nice-Cote d'Azur International
Airport. Its harbour, open on the Mediterranean, is
host to many cruise and transatlantic ships, and a
network of roads and railways also lead to this, one
of the most famous of holiday centres.
Winter or Summer Monte Carlo offers every kind
of entertainment : opera, ballet, concerts, theatre,
indoor and outdoor cinemas where in Summer one
hundred films are shown in one hundred evenings,
aquarium, zoo, botanical gardens, night clubs, fire-
work displays and the famed casino provide a wide
variety of events in which the splendours of yesterday
meet today's most exacting requirements. Sports of
every kind are in favour in Monaco. Water sports
and beach games, undersea exploration, regattas, big-
game fishing, golf, tennis and a rifle shooting range.
Due to the compact size of the Principality the
cultural and sporting attractions and the many re-
minders of its splendid past are always close at hand.
Around its Palace, Cathedral, churches and ramparts,
Monaco's history is written everywhere. But whatever
the visitor does or wherever he goes he will always
have before him the breath-taking panorama of blue
mediterranean, cliffs, white villas, beautiful flowers,
and cacti of every hue and the supreme elegance of
Monte Carlo's promenades and cafes.
Those who attended the I.B.A. Conference held in
Monte Carlo in 1954 will find many changes, one of
which is the Congress Hall, where most of the working
Sessions of the Conference will be held. Much has to
be crowded into the five Conference days—for, in
addition to the General Meeting of Members, two
Council Meetings, six topxs for discussion of current
professional interest and importance and meetings of
the Standing Committees of the I.B.A., there will again
be held the General Assembly of the International Legal
Aid Association followed by a discussion on a current
Legal Aid subject and, for the first time, a General
Meeting of the Section on Business Law, two meetings
of its Council and Committee chairmen and meetings
of its eighteen Committees.
The Conference will be formally opened in the Halle
de Centenaire under the high patronage of S.A.S. Prince
Rainier III on the morning of Monday, September 11th.
Working Programme
The working programme which has provisionally
been settled by the I.B.A. Council is as follows:
Topic 1—
Environmental Controls—Pollution
This topic will be presented by a Rapporteur-General,
who is also the Chairman of Committee (f) of the
Business Law Section on the same subject. Its ranifi-
cations, however, go far lieyond the limits of Business
Law.
Topic 2-—
Labour Law
This topic will be handled by the Committee of the
Business Law Section on Employer-Employee Relations,
which will designate some particular aspect of the
subject which may adequately be discussed in a three
hour debate.
Topic 3—
The Role of the Lawyer in a Permissive
Society
This topic has been introduced experimentally as an
innovation. It is proposed that it will be conducted by
the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, which may
well include on its Conference panel Pathologists,
Scientists, and other non-lawyers, who are concerned
with the legal consequences, whether arising from the
use of drugs or other causes, of a serious increase in
licentiousness and pornography and a lowering of
traditional moral standards of human behaviour.
(The British Academy of Forensic Sciences was
founded in 1959 and consists of elected members of the
three disciplines—Medicine, Science and Law.
As many know, the words "Forensic Science" signify
that the individual members are concerned with those
aspects of their respective disciplines which are related
to the submission of evidence before the Courts of Law.)
Topic 4—
International Marriages—Divorce Problems
The French Bar Association has been invited to
appoint the Chairman and Rapporteur-General for this
Topic, which has been included as a follow-up to the
Topic "International Marriages—Problems with regard
to Property Status" which aroused considerable interest
at the Tokyo Conference in 1970.
Topic 5—
Consumer Protection
This topic is of first-ranking importance today in
the U.S.A. and several other countries. The American
Bar Association has been invited to appoint the Chair-
man and Rapporteur-General who will be responsible
for its presentation.
Topic 6—
Industrial Growth and Antitrust
This topic will be presented by the Chairman and
Secretary of Committee (c) on Antitrust of the Section
on Business Law.
In addition there will be open meetings of the Com-
mittee on "Professional Ethics" and of the Committee
on the "Practice of Law by Non-Lawyers".
On Thursday, September 13th, the Venue for the
discussions on Topics 2 and 5 will be removed to the
Palais des Expositions at Nice on the invitation of the
French Bar Association and the Nice Bar Association.
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