The International Administrative Law Centre of Excellence annual conference will once again bring together international civil servants, union representatives, lawyers, judges, academics and others interested in IAL, from around the world with a view to shaping and improving this area of the law.

“Is there a future for international governmental organisations? Where do we stand after 6 years from the establishment of the IAL COE?”.

 

DAY 1  (Thursday, 25th October 2018)

9:15 – Registration and coffee

9:45 – Introduction, welcome and overview of past conferences
Lee Marler, Bretton Woods Law

10:15 – Keynote address:
Administrative justice within police disciplinary proceedings
Sir Hugh Orde, OBE, QPM – Q&A

11:00 – Coffee break

11:15 – Session 1: Internal justice – how internal appeals bodies/committees react to the IATs changes?

Alice Lacourt, Legal Counsel, Commonwealth Secretariat, Jazz Omari and Neha Dubey, Bretton Woods Law.

Breakout groups/Q&A

12:00 – Session 2: Competence of judges and analysis of the new EBRD grievance process (ARC)

Professor Roy Lewis, former judge at the EBRDAT and AsDBAT, and former chair of the EBRD Grievance Committee

Breakout groups/Q&A

13:00 – Lunch

14:15 – Session 3: Attack on benefits following the changes to the UNCS, recent UNDT/UNAT judgments and case law

Irka Kuleshnyk, President of the United Nations Staff Union at Vienna and Former General Secretary of CCISUA and, Stefan Brezina, Vice-President of the United Nations Staff Union at Vienna and Ludovica Moro, Bretton Woods Law

The Duty of Care of international organisations (focus on the UN system)), ILOAT case law

Dr. Annalisa Creta, MA, PhD, Research Fellow – DIRPOLIS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and Frederick De Cock, Hasselt University

15:30 – Coffee

15:45 – Session 4: Fairness of tribunals, competence (independence) of judges (pro-organisation), UNDT and UNAT. Established general principles of international administrative law. Is there a consistent body of law transversal to all main International Administrative Tribunals?

Rishi Gulati, Australian Barrister – Victorian Bar, Academic Expert, Bretton Woods Law

Focus on ILOAT changes and adherence to general principles: ILOAT’s roundabout and discarding precedents; havoc in the internal justice systems of several organizations and increase in litigation.

Renuka Dhinakaran, International Law Consultant

Breakout groups/Q&A

17:30 – Closing remarks

17:45-19:45 Drinks and optional dinner – Drinks at the Cittie of Yorke historic pub, 22 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6BN followed by an optional dinner of tapas and paella (not included in conference price) at nearby Mas Q Menos, Holborn

 

DAY 2 (Friday, 26^th October 2018)

9.15 – Coffee and Conference Photograph

9:45 – Session 5: How to resolve disputes at the informal stage (i.e. best practices) and the benefits of mediation.

Timothy Lemay, former Deputy Director, Principal Legal Officer and Head of Legislative Branch, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and qualified International Arbitrator

EU administrative law system with focus on the EU Ombudsman

Nikos Vogiatzis, Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool

Breakout groups/Q&A

10:45 – Coffee

11:00 – Session 6: Access to justice for pensioners

Robin Flood, Member of the Governing Board of the Intergovernmental Pensioner’s Organisation AAPOCAD

Breakout groups/Q&A

11:45 – Session 7: “Strategic litigation”, focus on EU cases

Antje Kunst and Neil Macaulay, Bretton Woods Law

Breakout groups/Q&A

12:30 – Session 8: The IAL COE Legitimacy Index 2018

Renuka Dhinakaran, International Law Consultant, and Neha Dubey, Bretton Woods Law

See how your international organisation performs in the updated and comprehensive assessment of internal justice systems – comments and questions from delegates are highly encouraged

13:30 – Closing remarks

13:45 – End

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