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Positioning the Legal Profession in

the Regional Integration process:
Opportunities and Challenges

2011
Annual Conference and General Meeting

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25th - 26th November, 2011

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D a y O n e : Thursday November 24th 2011
All Day: Early Registration at the EALS Secretariat
7.00 pm 9.00 pm: Networking Dinner for the leading firms of East Africa (Mt. Meru Hotel)

D a y T w o : Friday November 25th 2011

Morning Session
7.30 am 9.00 am: Registration

Master of Ceremony Mr. Charles Rwechungura Esq
9.00 10.30 am:

Opening Ceremony
Welcome Remarks: Mr. Francis Stolla; President, Tanganyika Law Society
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Wilbert Kapinga; President, East Africa Law Society
Official Opening of the AC/AGM: H.E. President Jakaya M. Kikwete
Vote of thanks by Ms. Anne Abeja-Muhwezi; Secretary General, East Africa Law Society
10.30 11.00 am: Refreshments and Group Photographs

11.00 12.00:

Keynote Address
(Positioning the legal profession in the Regional Integration Process, Opportunities and
Challenges)
Secretary General of the EAC Dr. Richard Sezibera

12.00 12.30 pm: Keynote Address discussion

Former Attorney General the Republic of Kenya, Hon Amos Wako.
12.45 1.45 pm: Lunch
Afternoon
Session

2.00 2.40pm

Track 1

Track 2

Regional Integration

Building a Successful Practice

Overview of the East African Community

Regional Integration Process.
Mr. Dan Ameyo, EAC Consultant

2.40 2.55pm
2.55 3.35 pm

An overview of Global and

Regional agreements on trade
in services. (WTO, COMESA, EAC)
Mr. David Ochieng

Plenary 1
Cross border Legal Practice within the EAC:
An overview of the proposed EAC draft
bill on Cross border legal practice and the
proposed Mutual Recognition Agreement
Framework for the legal profession.
Prof. Ben Twinomugisha

The global and regional law

firm: Selected Case Studies
from East Africa and beyond.
Prof John PalamagangaKabudi,
Dean Faculty of Law, University
of Dar es Salaam.

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An overview of Cross Border Legal

Practice, A case study of the Canadian Bar
Association
Mr. Tim Killen
Tea Break

3.50 4.10 pm
4.10 4.50 pm

Experiences on cross border Practice: Case

study from the Commonwealth Lawyers
Association.
Mrs. Boma Ozobia - President,
Commonwealth Lawyers Association

4.50 5.10 pm

Stretching to the next level:

The 21st century Lawyer.
Mr. Peter Kimbowa

Plenary 2

7.00 10.00pm: Gala Dinner Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge.

D a y T h r e e : Saturday November 26th 2011

7.30 9.00am:

Registration

9.00 1.00pm:

AGM as per notice

1.00 2.00pm: Lunch

2.00 6.00pm:

(Proposed) Adventures
Adventure 1

Adventure 2

Adventure 3

Sports

Tour of Arusha

Tourism Tanzania

Golf Tournament

Visit to the EACJ

Tennis Tournament

Visit to the ACHPR

Football
Tournament.

Visit to the Masai

artifacts market

Visit to selected
National Parks
Sightseeing 2 day visit
to Zanzibar
(Book for Saturday
Afternoon)

For further details please contact Daniel Birungi

on dbirungi@ealawsociety.org
or by phone on +255 684 380 229, +256 782 380 229. You can also
contact Maureen Akoth on maureen@ealawsociety.org or by phone on +255
787 648 787, +254 722 313 926
or visit our AGM website on http://www.ealawsociety.org/ealagm/