The new CCBE Presidency has taken office
James MacGuill is the new President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE).
CCBE Human Rights Award 2021
The CCBE Human Rights Award 2021 is granted to Belarusian lawyers Lilya Vlasova, Maksim Znak, Dmitry Laevski and Leanid Sudalenko as well as to all endangered lawyers in Afghanistan
CCBE Human Rights Award 2021
In addition to its 2021 Human Rights Award which will be granted at its Plenary Session in Berlin on 10 December 2021, the CCBE exceptionally decided to grant an additional Human Rights Award to all the endangered lawyers in Afghanistan.
The new CCBE Presidency has taken office
Margarete von Galen is the new leader of the Council of Bars and Law societies of Europe (CCBE).
CCBE Human Rights Award 2020
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) grants its 2020 Human Rights Award to seven Egyptian lawyers currently in prison and grants an exceptional posthumous Human Rights Award to Turkish lawyer Ebru Timtik who died in August 2020.