MORNING 9h30 – 13h30
9h30: Inscription
10h00: Welcome and Presentation
Ana Méndez GORBEA, Lawyer in MADRID, president of ALA- Madrid
Pro Deo Versus Pro Bono: Right against Charity
Gilberto PAGANI, Lawyer in Milano, Honorary President of the EDL
« Equality in front of the law is equality in front of the court »
11h15: Coffee Pause
11h30: 1st round table:
Access to Law: the word to the citizens !
The experience of social movements, legal teams and associations in France, Belgium
With: Belgium, Hilde LISSENS (Network of Fight against Poverty), Paco SEGURA (Ecologists in Action), Miguel BEITIA (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca – PAH), Carlos ESCAÑO (NosomosDelito), Italo DI SABATO (Observatory on Repression)
Moderator: Robert Sabata (lawyer in Barcelona)
12h45 : Discussions – questions from the public
13h30 : lunch
AFTERNOON 15h00 – 18h30
15h00:
Fundamental texts and jurisprudence of the European Courts.
VINCENT LETELLIER, Former president of the SAD, Belgium, lawyer in Brussels, and currently teaching at the Free University of Brussels
15h45:
2nd round table: Legal aid in Europe as seen by lawyers
With Denis DE PLOEG (Amsterdam); Marina DALIANI (Athens) ; Marta CLAPÉS (Barcelona); Bernd HÄUSLER (Berlin) ; Isabelle RAFFARD (Bordeaux); Véronique DOCKX (Bruxelles), Wendy PETTIFER (London) ; Nicola CANESTRINI (Rovereto),
Moderator: Frédéric UREEL (President of the EDL), lawyer in Charleroi
17h30: Discussion – questions from the public
18h00: Conclusions:
Recommendations Of the CCBE In matters of Legal Aid
Rendering mandatory the European directive in matters of judicial assistant and legal aid.
Fernando Piernavieja Niembro, Ex-president of the Commission Access to Justice of the Consejo de la Abogacía Española
18h30 – Closing