15 November 2019
President of CLA speaks at Mediation event in Singapore
Before
speaking at the Mediation- a Commonwealth Perspective event at
the Law Society of Singapore on Wednesday 13 November 2019, the
President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Brian Speers joined
colleagues for a photo call.
Mr
Speers is pictured with fellow speakers -
·
Supreme
Court of India Judge, the Honourable L. Nageswara Rao
·
Past
President of CLA, Santhaan, Krishnan
·
Vice
President CLA, Australasia Steven Thiru
·
President
of the Law Society of Singapore, Gregory Vijayendran.
Approximately
100 Singapore attended the event in which the President of the CLA, Brian
Speers provided an explanation reference developments in mediation across the
Commonwealth.
He
also took the opportunity to explain why more and more countries are expecting
mediation efforts to be made before accessing court.
Judge
Rao spoke of the need to make a profession of mediators and referenced a number
of cases where had had encouraged parties to mediate.