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Click here to view Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Section IBA Annual Conference working sessions Madrid 2009.

Featured news:

The report authored by the IBA Legal Practice Division Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (2009) is now available for purchase in the IBA shop, in book format, at £25. The Task Force was formed to focus on two important questions:

• When should a state be able to regulate persons or conduct occurring outside its territory?
• How should overlaps or conflicts of jurisdiction between two or more states be resolved?

The report responds to these questions by laying out the principles governing extraterritoriality, and by providing recommendations for governments, courts, international organisations and businesses on methods for minimising costs and conflicts associated with extraterritorial exercises of jurisdiction. The report focuses in particular on competition and antitrust law, tort law, criminal law, securities law, insolvency law, bribery and corruption.

The pdf version of the report is available for download, free of charge.

SIRC Executive Meeting May 2009:

• Minutes from SIRC Executive Meeting
• Master timetable for 2009-2010 committee activities

NB The deadline for submissions has now passed. Scholarship recipients will be announced in due course.

This year the Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Section will again award a scholarship to a young lawyer who wishes to participate in the IBA Annual Conference, but may find financial difficulties in doing so. The scholarship award for 2009 includes the following:

• Free registration for the IBA 2009 Annual Conference, 4-9 October 2009, Madrid, Spain.
• A contribution towards travel costs to the conference.
• A contribution towards accommodation costs while attending the conference.
• Two year's free membership of the IBA, LPD and PPID including membership of one committee within the awarding section and one free PPID constituent.
• A waiver of either the next IBA Annual Conference registration fee or the registration fee of one of the chosen committees' specialist conferences in 2010.
• Free membership of the Scholarship Alumni Group.

For further information and criteria for applying for the scholarship please download the Scholarship Application Form here.

NB The deadline for submissions has now passed. Scholarship recipients will be announced in due course.

To access SIRC newsletters, conference papers, conference recordings and other SIRC publications please visit the SIRC library.

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