The Office of the Law Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus and the Law Commission of England and Wales, are organizing, with the support of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Press and Information Office, an educational conference titled “Reforming the Law: Perspectives from the Office of the Law Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus and the Law Commission of England and Wales”. The conference will take place at the Constantinos Leventis Amphitheatre at the Leventis Gallery on 5 A.G. Leventis Street, 1097, Nicosia on the 05 November, 2024 from 08:30 until 18:00.
The conference aims in training civil servants, lawyers, legal practitioners and academics in the field of law reform. Focusing on the various aspects of law reform, the conference will develop specific thematics dealing, inter alia, with the drafting of bills, the methodology behind law reform and the importance/impact of such law reform.
Date: Tuesday, 05 November, 2024
Venue: A.G. Leventis Gallery (Address: 5 A.G. Leventis Street, 1097 Nicosia, Cyprus)
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Speakers |
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08:30-09:30 |
Registration and morning coffee |
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09:30-11:10 |
· Welcoming speech by the Attorney-General of the Republic of Cyprus · Welcoming speech by the Minister of Justice and Public Order · Welcoming speech by the President of the Cyprus Bar Association · Keynote speech by the Law Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus · Keynote speech by the Chair of the Law Commission of England and Wales |
· Mr George L. Savvides · Mr Marios Hartsiotis · Mr Michael Vorkas · Mrs Louiza Christodoulidou Zannetou · Sir Peter Fraser |
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11:10-11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 – 13:00 |
1st thematic: The Lifecycle of a Project
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Achilles C. Emilianides (Managing Partner at A. & E. C. Emilianides, C. Katsaros & Associates LLC, Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law of the University of Nicosia) |
· Ms Roshnee Patel (Joint Chief Executive Officer (Joint CEO), Law Commission of England and Wales) · Mr Matthew Jolley (Head of Legal, Law Commission of England and Wales) · Representative of the Office of the Law Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:30 |
2nd thematic: Legislative Drafting (Guidelines) Moderator: Christophoros Christophi (Lawyer, Founder and Managing Partner of Christophi & Associates LLC, Founder & Presenter of the Legal Matters Podcast) |
· Sir Peter Fraser (Chair, Law Commission of England and Wales) · Ms Jessica de Mounteney (First Parliamentary Counsel and Permanent Secretary of the Government in Parliament Group, Cabinet Office) · Dr Despina Kyprianou (Attorney of the Republic, Head of the Academy of the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 – 17:30 |
3rd thematic: Different Impacts of Law Reform initiated by Law Commissions Moderator: Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou (Head of School of Law and Professor of European Law and Reform, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus)) |
· Ms Roshnee Patel (Joint Chief Executive Officer (Joint CEO), Law Commission of England and Wales) · Mr Matthew Jolley (Head of Legal, Law Commission of England and Wales) · Mr. Polyvios G. Polyviou (Lawyer, Senior Partner at Chryssafinis & Polyviou LLC) |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
Concluding observations of the Conference |
· Law Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus, Mrs Louiza Christodoulidou Zannetou · Sir Peter Fraser (Chair, Law Commission of England and Wales) |
Important Information:
- This conference is part of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme for Advocates and is accredited with 6.5 certified CPD units, which will be recorded to each participant by the Cyprus Bar Association.
- Participation fee: €40
- Participants will receive the CPD units only by attending the entire conference. No attendance certificates will be issued.
- Interpretation services will be available from English to Greek and vice versa.
Registration:
- Registration for the conference is done exclusively through the portal of the Cyprus Bar Association.
- Deadline: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at 23:59.
- After the registration is completed, the participation fee is non-refundable.
To register, please click on the following link: https://www.cyprusbar.org/CourseEventDetails?Id=DMSIYdn%2fK1u3TJjxNI2Nlw%3d%3d