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Conference Report Auckland04 Simon Bai PDF
Conference Report Auckland04 Simon Bai PDF
Conference Report Auckland04 Simon Bai PDF
It has been a great experience attending the IBA Conference as one of the
IBA scholars in Auckland this October where I met many intelligent and
from different legal culture. Personally I think this conference was very
well organized and very successful. I fully enjoyed the one-week event
in China .
On the first day of the Conference, 22nd Oct, when there was the special
session for young lawyers and IBA scholars, I enjoyed the presentations
by Mr. Lock who talked about Project Financing and his personal legal
become the rotating chair of this committee after this IBA Conference in
Auckland, thus taking charge for the sessions of next IBA annual
legal input from countries like China where there must be a huge market
for this particular legal field, which is true indeed. Across the nation,
there are hundreds of big infrastructure projects like power plant, water
resources project etc in progress and even more being planned, which
Mr. Lock then asked me whether I would like to join him and his
colleagues in their next conference and become part of their team to put
although I do not know yet what I can contribute to this committee, which
I am ashamed to say.
On 28th of Oct, I joined many of the young lawyers , together with quite a
Committee, which was really exciting and lively since the interaction
between the panel of guest speakers and the audience revealed some of
the key issues that the young committee has to figure out, which are also
of concern for young lawyers. I also made a very brief remark on the
from New Zealand and two from Australia, as well as the president of
The Bar of England and Wales were very impressive, through which I
assist and guide young lawyers in their early stage of career. During the
leaving my business card and would love to play a role in this new
committee.
Inspired by what I learned from this session, I have been invited to give
community, also had its theme for that conference focused on the growth
specific enabling program intended to ease the adjusting period for them,
who are usually left to explore the sometimes treacherous terrain, at their
own risk. Trial and error is more often than not the norm rather than
risks and liability issues. Just as in other countries, young lawyers, among
the fact that they are newcomers and do not have major income sources.
and the potential for them to improve their performance remains huge.
That’s why it’s not surprising that I find the Young Lawyer Committee
China as a young lawyer myself. What some of the speakers shared with
other countries will shed some light on many of the seemingly baffling
And next year’s China lawyer’s annual conference will take place in my
city, to be hosted by Bar of Tianjin, and one of the senior partners of my
firm is now the chairman of Tianjin Bar. I expect that it will be a great
for this event assisted by my experience with IBA and the Young
have made this IBA conference possible and those who have shared their
Yours Sincerely