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25 September 2007 - Holliday Inn - Warsaw
18.30 Registration
19.00 Reception courtesy of the Polish National Council of Legal Advisors
26 September 2007 - University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law
08.30 Registration
Chair: Julian Lonbay (Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Chair of the CCBE Training committee and QUAACAS, England & Wales
09.00 Welcome
- Prof. Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Dean of the Warsaw Law School
- Stanislaw Rymar, President of the Polish Bar Council
- Zenon Klatka, President of the Polish National Council of Legal Advisors
- Introduction: Colin Tyre, QC, President of the CCBE
09.10 What are competences and learning outcomes?
- John Bell (University of Cambridge, Chair of the Joint Academic Studies Board, England & Wales)
09.30 Tuning Legal Studies in Europe: Converging learning outcomes for law degrees in Europe?
- Julia González (University of Deusto, general co-coordinator of Tuning Higher Educational Stuctures in Europe, Spain
- Tom Latrup-Pedersen (Aarhus University, member of QUAACAS, Denmark)
- Discussion
10.45 Coffee break
Chair: Pierre Lafont (French Conseil National des Barreaux, former President of the Training Committee of the Conseil National des Barreaux)
11.15 The view from the Bars and Law Societites: What is expected from pre-professional education?
- Hartmut Kilger (President, German Bar Association)
- Pierre Thielen (Former President, Luxembourg Bar Association)
- Luciano Garofalo (University of Bari, Italian Bar Association)
- Discussion
12.45 Lunch
Chair: Colin Tyre, QC (President of the CCBE)
14.15 CCBE view on training outcomes for European lawyers
- Julian Lonbay
- Day One Outcomes - the experience of the Solicitors' Regulation Authority in developing an outcomes based approach to professional legal education - Maria Tighe (Leeds Law School / Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
- Assessing the "professional" element in professional legal education - Amanda Fancourt (Vocational Education Developer, UK Centre for Legal Education, University of Warwick)
- Discussion
15.40 Coffee / tea break
16.00 Coping with non nationally trained applicants
- Richard Bühler (Ministry of Justice, LJPA,NRW, President of the Juristisches Prüfungsamt and chair of the German Länder Ministries of Justice Group on Legal Education)
- Lenka Eisenbruková (Czech Bar Association)
- Rob van Otterlo (Chief Operations Officer, The Netherlands Bar Association)
- Discussion
- The double degree's experience: a contribution to an integrated European Legal Education - Audrey Guinchard (University of Essex, Department of Law, UK)
- Anne Pelissier (University of Strasbourg, member of QUAACAS, France)
- Discussion
18.00 Close
19.30 Dinner (Holiday Inn)
27 September 2007 - University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law
Chair: Cord Brügmann (German Bar Association)
09.00 Views of the Bars on current developments in legal education and training
- Maria Slazak (Polish National Council of Legal Advisers)
- Waltraute Steger (Vice-President, Austrian Bar Association)
- Pierre Lafont (French Conseil National des Barreaux, former President of the Training Committee of the Conseil National des Barreaux)
- Discussion
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 The Future of European Legal Education and Training
- Colin Tyre, QC
- The harmonisation of legal education, regulation and practice standards: Australian vs European perspectives - Will Hammond (Solicitor, Middletons Lawyers, Vice-President of the Law Institute of Victoria, Young Lawyers Section, Australia)
- Jacek Petzel (University of Warsaw, member of the ELFA Board, Poland)
- Discussion
- Summary - Julian Lonbay
13.30 Close
List of participants