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The Legal Policy and Research Unit are working with the Young Lawyers’ Committee on a research project focusing on the interests of young lawyers around the world.
10th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
Dec 12, 2023
The Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act 2010 is a seminal legislation in Pakistan, providing victims of workplace harassment with an opportunity to pursue legal recourse. However, the law is subject to some limitations: primarily a narrow definition of ‘workplace’ and ‘employee’ with a focus only on sexual harassment of women, limiting the effectiveness of the law in addressing all forms of harassment faced by any employee in different types of workplaces. In 2022, an amendment to the Act was introduced, expanding its scope, addressing the limitations of the initial Act and making justice for victims of workplace harassment more accessible. This article explores the original law’s merits and limitations in addition to the changes brought about by the amendment, thus highlighting the importance of strong legal protections against workplace harassment in Pakistan.
11th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
As representatives of the global legal profession, delegates and IBA members are expected to maintain the highest levels of propriety and behaviour.
The IBA recently completed a global lawyers’ survey assessing corruption risks facing practitioners in many different jurisdictions and practice areas. This panel will provide a detailed briefing about the survey results, including comparisons to a similar survey conducted over ten years ago, and explore potential next steps using the survey results as a guide for combatting corruption risks facing the legal profession.
20th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
By Robert F. Millard. Perceptions on digitalisation survey - Law Firm Management Committee newsletter article, March 2020
This session will focus on the various aspects of the IBA guidance that the BIC Policy Committee and BIC have pursued.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
May 18, 2023
This survey aims to assess how different jurisdictions regulate environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures and to determine whether and to what extent ESG disclosures are now mandatory due to prevailing regulatory trends and institutional investors’ demands.
Addressing bullying, harassment and discrimination in the legal profession - a view from the regulatory perch
An IBA Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) survey to assess the impact of Covid-19 emergency powers on the rule of law and human rights in different jurisdictions.
Join us for an insightful discussion into law firm culture, focusing on issues such as bullying and sexual harassment and gender parity. The panel will consider how failing to make these issues a top priority impedes the career progression of women.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
IBA Global Insight June/July 2019: Global Insight assesses the extent of the issue and analyses the causes as well as what needs to change
Globally, over the last two decades, more than 2000 journalists have been killed for reporting the news and bringing information to the public. Harassment, intimidation and attacks against journalists and the media has increased worldwide and is seeping into more “democratic” societies as rhetoric against the media has become more amplified and commonplace.
The cycle of harassment oftentimes begins online (and is disproportionately directed at female journalists), but more and more, it moves into the courtroom through judicial harassment aimed at silencing or bankrupting the journalist or media, and the ultimate increasing physical attacks and killings are occurring without accountability.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Sep 04, 2024
Less than half (43 per cent) of law firms actively monitor and prepare for environmental, social and governance (ESG) developments for their own operations, which is down by almost a fifth (62 per cent) in two years, according to a recent survey conducted by the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Law Firm Management ESG Subcommittee.
Claims filed against companies that are alleged, or whose boards are alleged, to have permitted an atmosphere in which sexual misconduct or harassment was tolerated or to have misrepresented the measures the companies had taken to prevent or respond to misconduct, are on the rise.
Also in the legal world, in our own working environment, we all have a responsibility to create a culture where bullying, harassment and discrimination doesn’t happen, and challenging it or reporting it if we see it happening.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Sep 04, 2024
The third consecutive annual survey conducted by the IBA Law Firm Management ESG Subcommittee.
For the first time in the history of the IBA, the Pro Bono Committee has undertaken a survey of the state of pro bono on the African continent, with a particular emphasis on the African IBA membership. This session will engage the results of the survey, and will be an opportunity to discuss whether there is a role for the IBA to assist with challenges and barriers identified in the survey results.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Oct 17, 2023
The IBA Anti-Corruption Committee and the IBA Legal Policy and Research Unit (LPRU), with input from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), have announced the launch of a new anti-corruption survey to gather data on the existence and effectiveness of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering legislation at a global level.
The IBA's LPRU has published a report on the nature and prevalence of bullying and sexual harassment in the legal profession around the world, based on the findings of its extensive 2018 survey on the subject. It offers both observations and recommendations for action. The IBA hopes that the report will encourage law firms to revisit their policies and training for responding to and preventing bullying and harassment.
The IBA Litigation Committee has undertaken an in-depth survey of how different jurisdictions approach digital service considering the law, practice, practical issues and challenges. The purpose of the survey is not only to assist practitioners who wish to utilise such processes in their current cross border cases but to understand the trends and best practice. This session will report on the work of the task force responsible and their progress thus far with a panel of distinguished speakers who will survey the landscape of digital service across the world and comment on the results collated.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Aug 19, 2024
An introduction to the Committee’s survey to members asking for an article on their country's public policy exceptions.
The panel will cover the steps employers should take to manage psychological risk including risks arising from the workplace environment, bullying and sexual harassment and what regulators around the globe are doing to enforce breaches.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Apr 20, 2023
Since the addition of provisions on workplace harassment to the Korean Labour Standards Act (LSA) in July 2019, workplace harassment has become a prevalent issue reviewed and investigated by companies in Korea. The somewhat broad definition of workplace harassment, as explained below, has also led to more whistleblower reports, making it increasingly important to understand what constitutes workplace harassment.
The ABA recently conducted a survey: "In their own words: Experienced Women Lawyers - Explain Why They Are Leaving Their Law Firms and the Profession".
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Sep 21, 2023
This article outlines the numerous interpretations of the Indian POSH Act by the courts over the past ten years, and considers to what extent the law’s original intent has been met in reality.
Or do these laws serve to harass undertrials and innocent individuals?
Fourth IBA India Litigation and ADR Symposium
Jun 03, 2025
Corruption remains a significant challenge for the legal sector, but a recent report indicates there’s growing awareness across the profession of both the risks it poses and the safeguarding tools available. In-House Perspective takes stock of the report’s findings.
During this session, we will examine some of the potential challenges related to the use of the metaverse from an employment context, including in terms of employee training, enforcement of non-competition clauses, occupational health and safety, identifying the applicable legal jurisdiction and considering potential new harassment and discrimination risks as well as algorithmic surveillance and data protection concerns.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference
Aug 02, 2024
Antitrust authorities in the US are targeting the new frontier of AI for potential enforcement action
This session reviews the role employers can play in driving powerful societal change in relation to gendered violence and harassment.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
However, when NDAs intersect with allegations of criminal conduct, ethical breaches, harassment, misconduct by professionals, or matters of clear public interest, their legitimacy and enforceability become far more complex.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Sep 11, 2025
The UK government has said it will legislate to stop employers from using non-disclosure agreements to cover up harassment and discrimination in what campaigners hope will lead to a sea change in workplace culture. In-House Perspective examines the implications for business.
SLAPPs (‘Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation’) are typically brought by powerful individuals or corporations with the intention of harassing, intimidating, and financially or psychologically exhausting opponents via improper use of the legal system, and evading scrutiny in the public interest.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jul 28, 2025
With the aim of gathering insights from law professionals worldwide on how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the legal sector, the International Bar Association (IBA) Section on Public and Professional Interest (SPPI) Artificial Intelligence Working Group (‘the Working Group’) has launched…
Having already undertaken an anti-corruption survey earlier this year, our discussion will include a showcasing of results from that study, as well as any recommendations that have emerged.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The session will look at current trends in environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics for public companies and will dive into a separate ESG survey. The phenomenon of greenwashing in the international capital markets will also be discussed.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jan 22, 2020
The International Bar Association (IBA) has published a Spanish translation of its landmark bullying and sexual harassment report. The Spanish translation of Us Too? Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession will be officially launched in Madrid on Wednesday 22 January at a roundtable event hosted by the IBA in collaboration with the General Council of Spanish Lawyers.
The Young Lawyers' Committee has participated in a series of surveys which show that young talents want more flexibility.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
After addressing the issue of what falls within the concept of sexual harassment under Italian law, this article aims to analyse what means and legal protections are available to encourage employees to blow the whistle when they are victims of sexual harassment at work, as well as what improvements could be made in the future.
Based on key findings of the 2021-2022 Legal Policy and Research Unit tech competency survey report, the session will discuss tech competency as a core legal skill and the need for developing a sustainable concept for the IBA’s existing code of principles.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Mar 10, 2023
The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is concerned over reports of unfair and arbitrary treatment against the Republic of Uganda’s Supreme Court Justice, Dr Esther Kisaakye, following her handing down a dissenting judgment in a 2021 presidential election petition. Disciplinary...
Yet in an increasing number of countries – spanning from El Salvador to the US, Türkiye, Belarus, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, and more recently even EU member states like Poland and Hungary - lawyers are being harassed, surveilled, arbitrarily prosecuted and detained, disbarred, or even physically attacked for carrying out their professional duties.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jan 03, 2023
Law No 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and modernisation of economic life (Sapin II Law) requires certain companies to take measures to prevent and detect acts of corruption or influence peddling.
In support of the session, a best practice playbook on the topic would be created, LinkedIn posts would be shared before and after the program, and a survey would be conducted to gather insights from practitioners around the world.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
Jul 27, 2022
The International Bar Association (IBA) has announced the publication of a new report by the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) that documents the impact of the five-month Russia-Ukraine conflict on the Ukrainian justice system. As a founding organisation of ILAC, the IBA contributed to the report’s...
The panel of seasoned practitioners will survey developments and trends in the public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape, including takeovers, privatisations, tender offers, mergers and schemes.
Asia Pacific Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
Apr 27, 2021
The Law Firm Management Committee monthly survey series: February 2021.
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increased difficulty to meet the beneficial ownership test;
substance thresholds: a comparative survey;
new waves on general anti-avoidance rules (GAARs) and specific anti-avoidance rules (SAARs);
tax risks deriving from potential recharacterisations; and
withholding tax risk assessment and reporting obligations for listed companies.
14th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Conference
Apr 01, 2021
The International Bar Association (IBA) has published the initial results of a global evaluation into the wellbeing of the legal profession. A bifurcated approach using two surveys – one for individual lawyers, the other for legal institutions – garnered responses from more than three thousand individuals and over 180 legal organisations, including bar associations, law societies, in-house legal departments and law firms.
The IBA has completed its ground breaking global survey of the legal profession and issued its principles for addressing the situation.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
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