Law Reform: Challenges and Opportunities Today

Sunday 11th September 2005, London

Programme

9.30: Registration and coffee

10.00: Welcome and introduction: Justice Elton Singini SC

10.05: Session 1:

topic: What types of law are/should be priorities for law reform?
title: “Reform, reform: are not things bad enough already?” (Mr Justice Astbury)
coverage: the types of law which are/are not suitable for law reform, in mind the very different experience of different Law Reform Agencies (LRAs); setting programmes of law reform work.
speaker : Mr Justice Roger Toulson
commentator: Bernard Colas

11.05: Coffee break

11.15: Session 2:

topic: Law reform: communication/ public relations
title: “The medium is the message” (Marshall McLuhan)
coverage: how LRAs communicate with the public, Non-Governmental
Organisations, professional associations, consultees, the media, government and politicians; how LRAs use technology to communicate
chair: Justice Kayode Somolu
speakers: Joshua Rozenberg; Justice Roslyn Atkinson
commentator: James Sandbach

12.15: Session 3:

topic: Smaller LRAs
title: “Small is Beautiful” (E.F.Schumacher)
coverage: particular opportunities and challenges, both for smaller LRAs and for larger LRAs in cooperating with them.
chair: Ronald Mackay
speakers: Madam Justice Jean Permanand; Mrs Janet Banda;
commentator: Betty Mould-Iddrisu

1.15: Lunch and conference photograph

2.00: Session 4:

topic: Training for law reform
title: “Train up a [law reformer]in the way he should go” (with apologies to the Book of Proverbs)
coverage: training for staff (ranging from long term legal staff to short term research staff), both in-house, more academic and elsewhere; internships; assistance for LRA members.
chair: Professor Joseph Kakooza
speakers: Professor Marcia Neave; Professor Karen Rothenberg; (Laura McGowan)

3.00: Session 5:

topic: Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Agencies (CALRAs)
title: “CALRAs: Challenges and Opportunities Today”
coverage: necessary formalities; priorities; general discussion.
chair: Justice Elton Singini SC
speakers: other officers of CALRAs

4.00/5.00: Close

Additional speakers(at convenient time): Doctor Elizabeth Leao and Rodrigo Santos

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