3.4 Continuing Professional Development
The enhancement of continuing professional development of members is integral to the maintenance of standards and the promotion of an organised system for the profession. Prior to the empanelling of the Board of the NBA-ICLE in 2021, not enough attention had been paid to this all-important duty of the NBA to its members.
The NBA under my administration will invest in manpower and technology for the NBA-ICLE to ensure that it operates at full capacity and achieves its true potential. My administration will continue with the affordability, availability and accessibility principles of the current administration.
We will also advocate and promote mandatory Continuing Legal Education provisions in our Rules of Professional Conduct and seek to further strengthen the NBA in this regard. The Career Development Centre of the Institute will be reinforced to provide career related guidance and assistance to members.
3.4.1. NBA – Annual General Conferences
The Annual General Conference is the flagship event of the NBA. More than any other forum, the AGC boasts of the largest gathering of members, thus it is important that we continue to take advantage of this gathering as a platform for positive exposure of our members as well as a place for CLE. Consequently, we will build on the successive administrations’ elevation of the quality of panels (local and international speakers) and robustness of discourse.
We will further diversify the array of speakers and participants at the sessions to ensure the vastness and multifaceted practice that we seek to encourage. We will give more young lawyers the opportunity not only to learn from more experienced speakers but also to get fair opportunity to speak and express themselves. We will sustain the current free conferencing afforded to members who are senior citizens whilst expanding the gesture to cover physically challenged members.
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* To be continued.
