IBA audio

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC discusses the situation for asylum seekers at the United States border during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Full podcast available: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy discusses the situation in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to the full podcast from April 2020 here: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC discusses the emergency legislation pushed through in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to the full podcast here: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC talks about the need for access to good information during the Covid-19 pandemic and the lack of freedom of expression in some states. Full podcast: https://www.ibanet.org/Podcasts/7549027.aspx

Due process paranoia is a concern that arbitrators’ robust procedural decisions will result in unenforceable awards. It can lead to inactivity and increased costs, but is it justified?

Committee Co-Chair Philippe Pinsolle discusses the IBA report The Annulment of Arbitral Awards by State Court and Emmanuel Jacomy dispels misconceptions about setting aside awards in China.

Carmen Pombo, IBA Poverty & Social Development Committee Advisory Board Member and Co-Chair of the Rule of Law Forum, talks to Ian McDougall, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the LexisNexis, Legal & Professional division of RELX Group, about the relationship between poverty and the rule of law.

Kate Jenkins, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, has been leading the national inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces. Despite the momentum of the #MeToo movement, she says people are still reluctant to call out sexual harassment

Kaweh Beheshtizadeh, an immigration solicitor at Fadiga & Co in London, believes the absence of a time limit on immigration detention of has caused irrevocable harm.