1st International
Advocacy Forum in Krakow

 9 amParticipant registration

 9:30 am - 3 pm International conference

topic: "Independence of the Bar Association as a prerequisite of the rule of law"

The international conference has a training character and counts for 10 credits of the mandatory training for attorneys - NRA Resolution No. 57/2011 of November 19, 2011.

Agenda

 Panel I 9:30 am - 11:15 am"Systemic guarantees of the independence of the Bar Association"

• Moderator: Aleksander Gut – president of the Krakow Bar Association
• Bartosz Grohman - secretary of the Supreme Bar Council (NRA), Poland
• Bas Martens - president of the European Bars Federation (FBE), The Netherlands
• Dariusz Mazur - judge of the Regional Court of Krakow, press officer of the “Themis” Association of Judges, Poland
• Sviatlana Babintseva - former Belarusian lawyer, ex- advocate, former representative on legal affairs for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
• dr Michael Griem - president of the Frankfurt Bar Association, Germany
• Jacques Taquet – president of the Commission for European and International affairs at the Conseil National des Barreaux (CnB), member of the French Delegation to the CCBE, past president of the Hauts-de-Seine Bar Association, France
• prof. Yasushi Higashizawa - vice director for Independence of the Profession at IROL UIA, chair of the Human Rights Committee at LawAsia, Japan

 Panel II 11:30 am - 1:15 pm"The Independent Bar Association in the face of war and humanitarian crisis"

• Moderator: Joanna Wsołek – chair of Ukraine Aid Committee, deputy chair of the International Cooperation Commission at the Krakow Bar Association
• Pavlo Lutsyuk - past vice-president of the Union of Advocates of Ukraine, past president of the Rivne Bar Association
• Aleksander Gut – president of the Krakow Bar Association, Poland
• Maurice Krings - past president of the Brussels Bar Association, Belgium
• Petro Boyko - president of the Kiev Region Bar Association, Ukraine
• Barbara J. Gislason - director of the UIA U.S. Effort to Aid Ukraine, the Editor-in-Chief of the Juriste International, member of the UIA Executive Committee, member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, USA
• Joe Karam - chair of Commission for international relations at Beirut Bar Association, Lebanon
• prof. Sara Chandler - past president of the European Bars Federation (FBE), past President of Westminster & Holborn Law Society, Honorary King’s Counsel, UK
• dr Elizabeth M. Zechenter - co-chair, International Law Section, International Human Rights Committee, American Bar Association (ABA), member of the Ukraine Task Force, New York State Bar, New York City Bar, and American Bar Association, USA

 Panel III 1.30 pm – 3:00 pmDiscussion Panel

• Moderator : prof. Sara Chandler - past president of the European Bars Federation (FBE)
• prof. Maciej Szpunar – first Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Andras Szecskay - director for Independence of the Profession IROL-UIA, vice-president of the Hungarian Bar Association and head of the Hungarian Delegation to the CCBE, Hungary
• Izabela Fountoukidis - judge of the Regional Court of Krakow, Poland
• Rosa Isabel Peña Sastre - Council member of the Governing Board of the Barcelona Bar Association, deputy Director of the Collective Members’ Committee of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), Spain
• Mengu Gokce - former head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Ankara Bar, Turkey
• Lydia Heuveling van Beek - member of the Dutch Judiciary, judge in the Court of the Hague, member of the Judge Organization of the Judiciary, NVvR