We have a pleasure to inform you that as a consequence of the very successful webinar on mediation which took place on January 28, 2021 the AEA-EAL Board decided to establish a Mediation Committee to promote alternative dispute resolution mechanism among legal profession, to promote use of the mediation by lawyers and to provide knowledge and know-how on this tool. We invite AEA-EAL Members, who are mediators or who wish to deal with this issue to join the Mediation Committee. Please send your submissions to secretary-general@aea-eal.eu cc office@aea-eal.eu till April 16, 2021.
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Dear Colleagues and Friends, Please find below our latest newsletter for download. Newsletter AEA-EAL Sprin 2021…
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Dear Friends, Best wishes and all the best for Easter. Let this time be full of joy for all of you, your families and friends! Chers Amis, Meilleurs voeux et tout le meilleur pour Pâques. Que ce temps soit plein de joie pour vous tous, vos familles et vos amis! Дорогие друзья, Наилучшие пожелания и всего наилучшего на Пасху. Пусть это время будет радостным для всех вас, ваших близких и друзей!
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Last week Federation of European Bars (FBE) elected a new Presidency with the following Officers:
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We invite you for a webinar organised by the Polish National Bar of Attorneys-at-law and Regional Bar in Rzeszów on practical aspects of providing legal assistance in Europe. AEA-EAL speakers – Anna Mizerka from France and Viktor Bobrin from Belarus will deliver information on the topic in their respective countries. More information and registration in Polish are available below:
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When? 15 April 2021 – 16 April 2021 Where? Online Languages English Objective This seminar will take a detailed look at procedural rights in the context of ev…
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Our friends from Turkey Litigation Support Project invite you for two online discussion panels: 1.March 3, 2021 at 16.00 (CET) – first panel on Turkey’s State of Emergency Inquiry Commission: A Means to Delay Justice? – registration link: https://bit.ly/3pVlf67 2. March 4, 2021 at 18.00 (CET) – second panel on Academic Autonomy and Freedom in Turkey: The Case of Boğaziçi University – registration link: https://bit.ly/2NwtiIR
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Today, before the Diyarbakir 10th Heavy Penal Court, a hearing in the case concerning Tahir Elci’s killing is taking place. Despite of declarations from high officials, both the investigation and the trial in Court raise serious doubts on its transparency and its correctness. Therefore, the European Association of Lawyers (AEA-EAL) issued a letter to Minister of Justice of the Republic of Turkey pointing out a number of problems noticed by independent organisations supervising the trial. We also endorsed a UN urgent action letter on Failure of Turkey to effectively investigate Tahir Elçi’s killing and calling United Nations to undertake urgent steps to secure the fair trail. Both letters can be found below for download: AEA-EAL letter Turkey UN Letter Turkey Tahir Elçi ((1966 – 28 November 2015) was a Kurdish lawyer and the Dean of Diyarbakır Bar Association. In 1993 he was became a lawyer, and a member of the Cizre Bar Association and defending people against the Turkish state at the European Commission of Human Rights (ECHR). In November 1993 he was detained and on the 10 December 1993 he was remanded to prison accused of links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s armed wing. He was released from custody on 17 February 1994 together with other defendants. Between 1996 and 2006 he was active at the Diyarbakir Bar association as a manager and in 2012 he was elected its Dean. On 23 March 2014, he was the lawyer in the Kuşkonar massacre case in the ECHR, in which Turkey was condemned for massacring Kurdish civilians and blaming the PKK. Elçi was detained several times and received death threats after saying the banned PKK should not be regarded as a terrorist organization. In October 2015, Elçi was detained by Turkish authorities and accused of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” after having said in an interview with CNN Türk, that the PKK was not a terrorist organization. He was killed in the Sur district of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on 28 November 2015. He was shot during a shootout between police and members of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the PKK’s youth wing, following a press statement during which he had been calling for an end to violence between the PKK and the Turkish state. Two members of the YDG-H shot and killed two police officers and fled down the Yenikapı street, where Tahir Elçi was holding the press conference beside the “Four-legged Minaret” of the Sheikh Matar Mosque. As the YDG-H militants ran down the street and past the scene of the press conference, police officers opened fire on them. Elçi was shot in the back of the head during the shootout and the YDG-H militants escaped. The same day, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDA) condemned the assassination and called for an independent investigation. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called the shooting a “planned assassination,” and protests erupted in Turkey after Elçi’s killing. Elçi’s brother Ahmet Elçi was quoted as saying that his brother was “murdered by the state.” Following the murder, Turkish authorities announced the “we aren’t ruling out the possibility that a third party directly targeted him.” In June 2016, Turkish authorities claimed that a captured militant witnessed PKK militants Uğur Yakışır and Mahsum Gürkhan open fire upon Tahir Elçi the moment he was killed. But in 2019, Forensic Architecture conducted an independent investigation on behalf of the Diyarbakır Bar Association and analyzed the killing. They concluded that the likely fatal shot probably came from police officers involved in the shootout and not from the escaping PKK militants. The investigation did not conclude whether the shot that killed Elçi was deliberate.
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We are delighted to deliver you a report from our webinar on “Mediation: an effective tool for commercial and family disputes Singapore Convention” that took place on January 28 this year. This successful event gathered speakers and participants from more than 15 countries.Lots of questions raised during the event, very positive feedback sent after the webinar showed us how much such events are needed in time of limited access to justice. Raising cross-border dispute resolution cases makes Singapore Convention on Mediation a very important tool for global universe of trade and commercial relations, it allows the parties to easily enforce the terms of the settlement agreements reached as a result of mediation in different jurisdictions.
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Our member from Afghanistan, Qazi Azizullah Sadiqi, sent us a short summary on trademark protection system in his country. The Afghanistan Patent & trademark office is operating under the Direction of Ministry of Commerce and industries of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The main new provisions on trademarks, entered into force on September 1st, 2020 are following a. Collective trademarks are known in the new provisions and can be registered. b. Well-known trademarks are defined. c. Three years of non-use gives the right to the third person to file a cancellation of trademarks registration. d. The timeline in which a person can suit against a registration trademark is one year. starting from the date of registration. e. If a trademark is registered based on non-bona fide, there is no timeline for cancellation of it. f. Trademark`s rights enforcement is controlled and governed by “trademark registration law” . Infringement and limitation of the trademarks cause cash fine, & Recovery of the damages. g. No one can use the trademark which is against the provision of the law The timeline for a smooth registration process is at least three months. The official fees for trademark registration are as below: a. New registration: 7200 afg equal to 100 USD. b. Renewal of the trademarks Registration: 4200 Afg equal to 60 USD.
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