Conference Programme

“ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE”
Kigali, Rwanda

8th-12th September 2024

  DRAFT PROGRAMME
(Subject to Change)

As of 19/02/2023

SUNDAY 8th SEPTEMBER

9:30-16:00 Meeting of CMJA Council members (Attendance by invitation only)  
TBA Meeting of Chief Justices (Attendance by invitation only)  
14:00-17:00 Registration commences  
18:30 Conference Welcome Reception  

MONDAY 9th SEPTEMBER

8:00

Registration continues

 
8.45

Everyone to be seated in main hall in readiness for opening ceremony

 
9:00-10:15 Session 1:  

Opening Ceremony:

1. Welcome by Chief Justice Faustin Ntezilyayo, Rwanda
2. Welcome by Justice Lynne Leitch, President CMJA
3. Cultural Show
4. Opening Speech

5. CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH

 
10:15-11:00 TEA BREAK  
11:00-11:30 Introduction:

Judge Shamim Qureshi, Director of Programmes CMJA

Presentation on CMJA and Membership – Mr Tim Workman, CMJA Executive Vice-President

 
11:30-12:30 Session 2: Plenary Keynote Speech:

“Environmental Justice”
Speaker: Chief Justice Dr Faustin Ntezilyayo, Rwanda

 
12:30-13:30 LUNCH  
13:30-15:00

 

Session 3: Concurrent Panel Sessions:

3a: “Private Remedies in trans-boundary pollution

 
3b: “Public and Private law rights to a better environment”  
3c: “Sentencing in wildlife smuggling cases”  
15:00-15:30 TEA BREAK  
15:30-18:00 Session 4: Visits to Genocide Memorials  
Evening FREE  

TUESDAY 10th SEPTEMBER

9:00 Notices and Announcement of the 2025 Conference.  
9:00-10:30

 

Session 5: Plenary Panel Session:
“Restorative justice after conflict”
 
10:30-11:00 TEA BREAK  
11:00-12:30 Session 6:
“Ensuring Our Courts Can Handle Disputes About The Environment” 
 
12:30-13:30 LUNCH  
13:30-15:00

 

 

Session 7: Concurrent Group Sessions:
7a: “ADR – Reciprocal enforcement with the New York and Singapore Conventions”
 
7b: “Case management: Reducing backlogs through problem-solving courts, plea bargaining and using part time judiciary”.  
7c: “Creating an association of employment/industrial judges”  
7d: “Commonwealth Military Justice systems”  
15:00-15:30 TEA BREAK  
15:30-16:30 Session 8: Plenary Panel Session:
Gender Committee: A fireside chat
 
            18:30 Reception  

WEDNESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER

9:00 Notices and CMJA Endowment Fund –  
9:00 Update on the UNODC Global Judicial Integrity Network
Justice Lynne Leitch, Canada
 
9:00-10:30 Session 9: Plenary Panel Session:
“Fighting corruption in the judiciary”
 
10:30-11:00 TEA BREAK  
11:00-12:30 Session 10: Breakout Discussion Groups:
“Can the judiciary say or do anything in public?”
 
12:30-13:30 LUNCH  
13:30-15:00 Session 11: Concurrent Group Sessions:
11a: “Sports Regulation”
 

 

  11b: “Demonstrating IT systems in paperless courts”.  
  11c: “Cross-border disputes in private family law”  
  11d: “Empowering prisoners in their own cases”  
15:00-15:30 TEA BREAK  
15:30-16.30 Session 12: Plenary Learning Session:
“Admissibility of computer-generated evidence ”
 
16:30-16.45 Close of Conference  
Evening GALA DINNER  

THURSDAY 12th SEPTEMBER

  OPTIONAL DAY OUT