, 2019

The Separation of Powers:a Fundamental Aspect of the Rule of Law

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04.00p.m. JOINT MEETING PRESIDENCY AND PRESIDENTS OF COMMISSIONS. Council Room

05.00p.m. MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONS. Rooms at the Palauet Casades, Barcelona Bar Association

Commissions: • Access to justice • Arbitration • Professional insurance • Eastern Bars • Law without borders • Human Rights • Promotion and equalities • Ethics • Legal education • Mediation • New technologies • Organization and operation of Bar Associations and Law Societies • Future of the profession • Mediterranean

07.00p.m. OFFICIAL OPENING RECEPTION. Pedralbes Palace. Avda. Diagonal, 686, 08034 Barcelona

Transfer provided by the organization. A coach will depart at 6.30 p.m.

The Royal Palace of Pedralbes is a historic building located in Les Corts district of Barcelona, surrounded by a vast garden area, it has been selected as the siege of the Union for the Mediterranean.

It has been used as the Royal family’s residence in the city between 1919 and 1931. Currently, the palace hosts the Decorative Arts Museum and the Ceramic Museum.

09.00a.m. OPENING OF THE CONGRESS. Assembly Hall of the Barcelona Bar

• Mª Eugènia Gay. President of the Barcelona Bar association • Michele Lucherini. President of the European Bars Federation (FBE)

09.15a.m. Introductory Conference. Assembly Hall of the Barcelona Bar

10.00a.m. Working Sessions. Assembly Hall of the Barcelona Bar

10.00a.m. PANEL 1: REAL SEPARATION IN COMPARISON TO POWER EQUILIBRIUM

11.30a.m. Co�ee Break

12.00a.m. PANEL 2: THE SYSTEM OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY IN VARIOUS STATES

01.30p.m. Working lunch. Column Courtyard of the Bar

03.00p.m. Working Sessions. Assembly Hall of the Barcelona Bar

03.00p.m. PANEL 3: INFLUENCE OF LOBBIES: THE ROLE OF BAR ASSOCIATIONS

04.30pm. PANEL 4: TRIBUNALS AS LAWMAKERS

06.00p.m. End of the Congress

08.30p.m. Gala Diner Gran Teatre del Liceu (Saló dels Miralls). La Rambla, 51-59, 08002 Barcelona. Barcelona's opera house, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, was founded on the Rambla in 1847 and has continued over the years to ful�l its role as a culture and arts centre and one of the symbols of the city.

10.00a.m. FORUM DES BÂTONNIERS. Barcelona Bar’s 8th �oor

11.00a.m. General Assembly. Barcelona Bar’s 8th �oor

01.30p.m. Farewell Lunch (together with the accompanying people)

Hotel Condes de Barcelona: AL AIRE TERRACE (5 minutes walking distance from Barcelona Bar) Passeig de Gràcia, 73, 08008 Barcelona. The Hotel Condes de Barcelona is ideally located on Passeig de Gràcia, the main commercial artery of the city, in the heart of modernist Barcelona and opposite to Gaudí’s La Pedrera.

The hotel occupies one former nineteenth century palace – Casa Daurella - which have been expanded and renovated to the highest architectural standards.

Thursday, May 30th

Saturday, June 1st

Friday, May 31th