German-British Lawyers Association

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The German-British Lawyers Association is a German association based in Hamburg , whose members are predominantly lawyers who want to improve cooperation with colleagues from Great Britain and Ireland and thereby maintain international understanding . The association's events are always organized together with its British sister association, the British-German-Jurists' Association . The association has around 900 members (as of summer 2006). Its British sister association has roughly half that membership.

history

On December 14, 1968, a first meeting of eight British and German lawyers took place in London under the direction of Kenneth R. Simmonds , with the aim of promoting the exchange of ideas and experiences between lawyers from both countries. They decided to found a German-British legal association. The association was then founded on October 31, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main . The British sister association - The British-German-Jurists' Association - had been founded in London some time before, under the chairmanship of Lord Kenneth Diplock (1907–1985). On 15 January 1971, the organization in which was Vereinsregister Hamburg entered. At the founding meeting, Gerhard Leibholz was elected as the first president of the association, and Helmut R. Külz was elected 1st vice-president. The lawyer Hans Dietrich Preyer became the first general secretary. Leibholz's successor as President was the later President of the Federal Constitutional Court , Wolfgang Zeidler . He held this office until his untimely death in 1987. The third president was the President of the Hamburg Constitutional Court and the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg , Helmut Plambeck ; Friedrich Kretschmer, at the time head of the Law, Competition Policy and Insurance Department of the Federation of German Industries, became Vice President . Plambeck was president until October 5, 2002 and has been the association's first honorary member since then. Inga Schmidt-Syaßen, presiding judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, has been the new president since October 5, 2002. The general secretary is the Hamburg lawyer Tobias Beckmann.

Club life

The members of both associations meet regularly twice a year, with the spring meeting in Great Britain and the autumn meeting in Germany . The meetings are held at constantly changing locations in both countries. Occasionally they also take place in third countries, such as in Strasbourg in 2005 or in The Hague in 2009 . The focus is on specialist lectures on current legal issues, which are usually dealt with by two speakers from the point of view of both legal systems. Both languages ​​are equally important conference languages. Scholarships are awarded to enable students to attend the conferences .

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