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ECBA Autumn Conference 11 and 12 September 2020

THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AND THE ROLE OF THE DEFENCE

CONFERENCE REPORT

The effects of the Covid 19 crisis can be felt in all areas of life. In the sector of legally oriented conferences, these have thinned out considerably in view of the pandemic. Despite this fact and in order to set an example, the ECBA decided to have the autumn conference in Rome after the spring conference was cancelled. And so the conference began on the evening of September 11th, 2020 in the historic ambience of Chiostro del Bramante with a reception, where Vincent Asselineau (Chair of the ECBA), Giandomenico Caiazza (Italian Defense Attorneys Association) and Antonino Galletti (President of the Roman Bar Association) made welcoming speeches.
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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (PDF)

Welcome speech by Raffaele Piccirillo, Head of Cabinet of the Ministry of Justice (English version)

Tribute to Scott Crosby - A pledge to continue his work in human rights and his passion for justice!
Alexis Anagnostakis
Nicola Canestrini
Alex Tinsley

Panel on EPPO at the starting point and the role of the defence
Chair Vincent Asselineau

Fabio Giuffrida, EU Commission
Ondrej Laciak, ECBA Advisory Board member and Chair of CCBE Criminal Law Committee
Lorenzo Salazar, Deputy Prosecutor General to the Court of Appeal of Naples (written contribution in Italian)
Andrea Venegoni, Corte di Cassazione

Use of video-links in criminal cases and the ECBA Statement
Chair Amedeo Barletta

Vânia Costa Ramos
Nicola Canestrini, Italy
Constance Ascione le Dréau, France
Juan Palomino Segura, Spain

Brexit and the Impact on Judicial Cooperation
Alex Tinsley, United Kingdom

Working Groups

1 – Ne bis in idem and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal matters
Moderators
• Marina Silvia Mori, Italy
• Alex Tinsley, United Kingdom (Specialty)
• Andrea Venegoni, Italy

2 – Criminal Justice and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Moderators
• Jaime Campaner, ECBA
• Walter De Agostino, Italy
• Enrico Di Fiorino, Italy

3 – The role of the ECBA in a Network of Defence Lawyer Organisations in Europe
Moderators
• Roland Kier, ECBA
• Heiko Ahlbrecht, ECBA and member of the Criminal Law Committee of the German Bar Association (TBC)
• Federico Cappelletti, UCPI

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ECBA Autumn Conference

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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (PDF)

Justice Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore of the UK Supreme Court

Northern Ireland, Human Rights and Brexit
Chair: John Larkin QC, Attorney General for Northern Ireland
• - Protecting human rights and equality after Brexit - the implications for Northern Ireland, Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner for Human Rights, Northern Ireland .
• A view from south of the border, Derek Kenneally SC and ames MacGuill, Ireland
• Suzanne Rice, President of the Law Society of Northern Ireland

Legal implications of Brexit for instruments of mutual recognition – EAW/EIO etc
Chair: Oliver Kipper
• Brexit: The Impact of a ‘No Deal’ on Cross Border Crime in Ireland, Michael Duffy, Barrister, The Bar of Northern Ireland
• Edward Grange, United Kingdom
• Caroline Morgan, European Commission London Office
• Two paradoxes of the legal implications of Brexit, Rosa van Zijl, Netherlands

Practical Implications of Brexit for EU lawyers
Chair: Vincent Asselineau
• Victoire Chatelin, France
• Robin Lööf, United Kingdom
• Helena Raulus, the UK Law Society Brussels Office

Defending political crimes
Chair: Rebecca Niblock
• Tamara Buruma, Netherlands
• Angela Díaz-Bastien, Spain
• Alex Michalevic, Belarus
• Sören Schomburg, Germany

About us
Chair: Roland Kier
• Vulnerable Accused Person Project, The Law Society of Scotland Criminal law Committee, Gillian Mawdsley
• The continuing struggle for judicial independence and the rule of law in Poland, Mikolaj Pietrzak
• EPPO, Vincent Asselineau
• EAW Handbook, Alex Tinsley
• Report on the most important recent ECBA Human Rights Committee's acitivities, Alexis Anagnostakis
• ECBA Spring Conference, Amedeo Barletta

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ECBA Spring Conference 10 and 11 May 2019

IS EFFECTIVE ACCESS TO LEGAL COUNSEL UNDER ATTACK?
Recent developments in the lawyer-client privilege / Challenges for the defence in the Refugee Crisis

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The reception was held at the Benaki Museum with welcome speeches by Vincent Asselineau, Chair of the ECBA and Ilias Anagnostopoulos, Chair of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association. On Saturday, the conference opened with welcoming speeches by Vincent Asselineau, Chair of the ECBA, who welcomed the participants and announced the conference agenda. Read more...

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Recent developments in the lawyer-client privilege (including the judgments of the UK Appeal Court [ENRC case] and those of the German Constitutional Court [Volkswagen/Jones Day])
Chair: Ilias Anagnostopoulos
• Presentation by Jaime Campaner, Spain
• Hayley Ichilcik, United Kingdom
• Oliver Kipper, Germany
• George Pyromallis, Greece
• Contribution by Dominika Stepinska-Duch, Poland
• Jaanus Tehver, Estonia

CJEU litigation project regarding how to formulate a request in a criminal case to the Court of Justice of the European Union by way of a preliminary reference
Presentation by Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, Fair Trials International

Saving Lives in the Mediterranean Sea
Presentation by Fabienne Lassalle, General Director of SOS Mediterranee, organisation managing the boat Aquarius saving refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.

Challenges for the defence in the Refugee Crisis; The interplay of asylum and extradition proceedings (including the “Greek” experience); Right to a lawyer before arrest; Defence risks; Can a defence lawyer be considered a client’s accomplice?
Chair: Alexis Anagnostakis
• Presentation by Nicola Canestrini, Criminal Defence Lawyer, Italy
• Contribution by Kirsty Brimelow QC, Head of International Human Rights Team Doughty Street Chambers, Former Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (2012-2018)
• Contribution by Vassilis Kerasiotis, Attorney at law in supreme courts, Director of HIAS Greece (Lawyers defending Refugees in the island of Lesvos)
• Panagiotis Perakis, Member of the Board of Athens Bar Association, Chairman of the CCBE Access to Justice Committee, Member of the CCBE Migration Committee

About us
Chair: Vladimir Hrle
• ACE, Vladimir Hrle
• E-evidence, Stephanie Schott
• CCBE, Ondrej Laciak
• Brexit, Vincent Asselineau
• Belfast conference, James MacGuill

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ECBA Autumn Conference, Nice, France, 5 and 6 October 2018.

Terrorism, Extradition and the European Arrest Warrant

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CONFERENCE REPORT
The conference started with a reception at Villa Masséna with welcome speeches by Martine Videau-Gilli, Vice President of the Bar Association of Nice and Philippe Pradal,1st Deputy Mayor of the City of Nice and President de commission of the Metropole Nice Cote d´Azur. On Saturday the first panel concentrated on the fight against terrorism and the protection of fundamental rights within this fight. Read more...

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (PDF)

Terrorism
The European instruments of the fight against terrorism - State of emergency - Fundamental Rights
Chair: Alexis Anagnostakis - Panel Discussion
Frederic Baab, Eurojust
Johan Eriksson, Sweden
Presentation by Nancy Hollander, USA
Nicolas Klausser, Phd Student, France
Jorgen Van Laer, Belgium

Extradition
Problems of the Defence - Detention - UK’s situation after Brexit, ..
Chair: Hans van de Wal - Panel discussion

Extradition in Serbia, Vladimir Hrle
Extradition in Czech Republic, Miroslav Krutina
Extradition in the United Kingdom, Rebecca Niblock
Extradition in Germany, Martin Rademacher
Extradition Procedure Review, Vladimir Hrle

European Arrest Warrant
Court of Justice Case law – Rights of Defence – List of crimes – Defence strategy
Chair: Vânia Costa Ramos - Panel discussion (bullet points to follow)

Procedural aspects of EAW cases in Portugal, Vânia Costa Ramos
Procedural aspects of EAW cases in Belgium, Emmanuelle Debouverie
Procedural aspects of EAW cases in the United Kingdom, Ben Keith
Procedural aspects of EAW cases in France, Jean-François Pedinielli
Procedural aspects of EAW cases in Poland, Maria Radziejowska

Emergency Issues
Chair: Neil Swift
Report on the situation in Poland, Dominika Stępińska-Duch, Poland
Report on the situation in Turkey, Alexis Anagnostakis, Greece
Report on the arrest of a lawyer in Moldova, Thomas Garner, United Kingdom

The ECBA would like to thank the Barreau de Nice for its hospitality in hosting the ECBA Committee in their premises and for all its assistance in organising this conference.

The ECBA would also like to thank de Ville de Nice for hosting the Friday reception at the Villa Masséna.

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ECBA Spring Conference, 20 and 21 April 2018, Oslo, Norway

Pre-Trial-Detention and Compensation – Current Issues and Minimum Standards

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CONFERENCE REPORT
Oslo presented itself with very nice spring weather and much activity in the city centre. The venue where the conference was held, “Gamle festsal”, is the old auditorium in the University in Oslo. Friday evening, the conference was opened according to tradition with a reception in “Gamle logen”.
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Pre-trial detention - Issues and the Need of Minimum Standards throughout Europe

Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the CPT invited the participants to acquaint themselves with the substantive section of the CPT's 26th General Report, which deals with the issue of remand (pre-trial) detention. It can be downloaded here.
Paul Garlick QC, Legal Practitioner and Lecturer gave a power point presentation on the subject. Please click here for the PDF version.
Fair Trials has done a lot of work on this topic which might be useful: You can see a lot of the work at this section of their website - including a short film. And you will find a 10 countries study of decision-making in Europe in 2016 by clicking here.

ECBA – update on the activities of the association

Report on the HR Committee of the ECBA
Scott Crosby, Chairman
Report on New Journal of European Criminal Law
Scott Crosby, Editor-in-chief
ECBA - EAW-Handbook
Juan Palomino Segura
New Road Map for further procedural safeguards (ECBA future policy – Agenda 2020)
Holger Matt

Panel on Compensation – Issues and the Need of Minimum Standards throughout Europe

Compensation of damages from crime - The Italian system and EU Law constraints
Amedeo Barletta, Italy

Recent developments in National Jurisdictions with the topic: Plea Bargaining – Legal Concepts and Practices

Introduction by Jago Russell, Fair Trials, United Kingdom

Report which outlines the work of Fair Trials International on the topic and provides links to reports, case studies etc.
The long report on the topic
A summary of the report
Plea Bargaining in Spain
Jaime Campaner, Spain
Plain Bargaining in Austria
Katrin Ehrbar, Austria
Plain Bargaining in Serbia
Vladimir Hrle, Serbia
Plain Bargaining in Poland
Damian Tokarczyk, Poland

The ECBA would like to thank the Norwegian Bar Association Criminal Bar Committee (Advokatforeningen) for its hospitality in hosting the ECBA Committee and the ECBA HR Meeting in their premises and for all its assistance in organising this conference.

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Investigation and Prosecution – Current Challenges in Europe

Future Challenges in the EU: Minimum Standards for Trials

ECBA 20th Anniversary

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CONFERENCE REPORT

Both in terms of the architectural backdrop and of the weather, Palma de Mallorca was a perfect venue for the ECBA’s fall conference of 2017. The conference opened with a reception on Friday in the beautiful courtyard of the Casa Balaguer made available to us by the City Council of Palma. Jaime Campaner Muñoz who helped organising the conference welcomed the delegates to Palma and Aligi Molina from the City Council added to this. Both made the delegates feel very welcome.

The Attorney - Client Privilege in Criminal Matters and Protection of Client´s Data

Prague, Czech Republic, 21 and 22 April 2017

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CONFERENCE REPORT

The Spring conference started on friday evening in the Ceremonial Hall of the Czech Technical University in Prague – Bethlehem Chapel with short welcome words by Martin Vychopen, President of the Czech Bar Association and Holger Matt, chairman of the ECBA and was followed by a piano concert as well as a reception.