Magna Carta 800th Anniversary – Foundation of Democracy and the New Trends of Dispute Resolution in IndiaThe IBA is proud to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta with three conferences in 2015.

The third of these essential one-day conferences takes place in New Delhi, India.

5 December 2015

The Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, India

Working programme and list of participants

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Saturday 5 December

All working sessions will take place in Diwan-I-Am

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0800 – 1700 Registration Diwan-I-Am foyer

0900 – 0910 Welcome remarks Cyril Shroff

0910 – 0930 Opening address David W Rivkin Debevoise & Plimpton, New York; IBA President

0930 – 1100 Keynote address Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, New Delhi Justice Mohit Shah Former Chief Justice, High Courts of Bombay and Calcutta, Mumbai Fali S Nariman Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and President Emeritus, Bar Association of India, New Delhi

1100 – 1115 Coffee/tea break Diwan-I-Khas

1115 – 1145 Introducing Magna Carta – What is it and why is it still relevant today?

Speaker Lord Nicholas Phillips Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers Former President of the Supreme Court of the

United Kingdom, London

Conference Co-ChairsRt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC Debevoise & Plimpton, LondonCyril Shroff Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai

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vahuraLegal Talent Specialists

1145 – 1300 Improvements in the Indian judicial system and lessons learnt from the West ‘To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.’

‘We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.’

Magna Carta, clauses 40 and 45

Session Co-Chairs Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Member of Parliament, New Delhi

Mark Mangan Dechert LLP, Singapore

Panellists Justice B N Srikrishna Retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Chairman of the Financial Sector Legislative

Reforms Commission, Mumbai Shekhar Gupta Senior Journalist, Mediascape Pvt Ltd, New Delhi Siddharth Luthra Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi Shreyas Jayasimha Aarna Law, Bangalore; Newsletter Editor, IBA Mediation Committee

1300 – 1400 Lunch Diwan-I-Khas

1400 – 1515 Maintaining limits on government power ‘For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious

offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood …’

‘No constable or other royal official shall take corn or other movable goods from any man without immediate payment, unless the seller voluntarily offers postponement of this.’

‘No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent.’

‘Neither we nor any royal official will take wood for our castle, or for any other purpose, without the consent of the owner.’

‘In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.’

Magna Carta, clauses 20, 28, 30, 31 and 38

Session Co-Chairs Cyril Shroff Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC

Panellists Kirsty Brimelow QC Doughty Street Chambers, London Justice Dr D Y Chandrachud Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, Allahabad Dushyant Dave President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, New Delhi Dr Ashwani Kumar Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and member of Parliament; New Delhi Kapil Sibal Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and former Member of Parliament, New Delhi Lim Chee Wee Skrine, Kuala Lumpur

Saturday continued

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Exhibitors

vahuraLegal Talent Specialists

1515 – 1530 Coffee/tea break Diwan-I-Khas

1530 – 1700 The future of dispute resolution in India Effective and just dispute resolution mechanisms are important to corporations, government and individuals. A

widening range of dispute resolution mechanisms are developing so that litigation or judicial determination of a dispute are no longer the primary methods of dispute resolution. This session provides a brief insight to the future of dispute resolution in India including the new trends emerging in this area. This session will also delve into the changing face of arbitration in India, the effi cacies brought in by technology and the new trends in enforcing arbitral awards especially foreign arbitral awards.

Session Co-Chairs Chiann Bao Secretary-General, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Hong Kong SAR Lalit Bhasin Bhasin and Company Advocates, New Delhi; IBA Honorary Life Member of Council and Association

Panellists Percy Billimoria AZB & Partners, Noida, India Shyam Divan Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi Gopal Jain Senior Advocate, New Delhi C Aryama Sundaram Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi

1700 – 1715 Concluding remarks Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC

1715 Closing reception Terrace Garden, Taj Mahal Hotel

Saturday continued

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