The Gazette 1971

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION The 1972 Conference—Monte Carlo

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.

'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,

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