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)