Monash SA set to to host first Annual Conference on Law and Business
The first ACLB conference will be held this week at Monash South Africa's Ruimsig campus.
Monash South Africa (MSA), supported by the dti (Department of Trade and Industry), the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), Lexis Nexis, Juta and the Attorneys’ Fidelity Fund, is inviting all legal eagles and organisations to attend their Law and Business Conference taking place this week.
The conference, which will take place at the MSA campus in Ruimsig from Thursday, 19 July to Saturday, 21 July, will look at the role of law and related disciplines in creating an ideal environment for business and economic growth.
This is the first conference to celebrate the important anniversary milestone of the execution of the Companies Act 71 of 2008. Given the global nature of the subject of Company Law and the involvement of a large number of international community members in the design of the legislation, the conference is open to anyone and everyone, calling mainly upon a combination of academic scholars, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of accounting, auditing, business, development, innovation, law, management, leadership as well as governance.
The first Annual Law and Business Conference will be co-chaired by Professors Tshepo Mongalo and HB Klopper. The event will feature the following keynote addresses:
– ‘Law and Capital Formation’, to be delivered by James Hanks Jr., a partner with the 650-lawyer firm of Venable LLP, and Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at the University of Maryland School of Law.
– ‘Corruption, Misuse of State Resources, Compliance and Ethics’, to be delivered by Professor Abdulkarim Abubakar Kana, the Attorney-General and Justice Commissioner for the Government of the State of Nasarawa in Nigeria.
– ‘Progress Made Since the Implementation of the Companies Act, 2008’, to be delivered by Professor Michael Katz, chairman of ENSafrica, specialising in corporate and commercial law.
– ‘The Role of Law and Lawyers in Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from Africa’, to be delivered by Justice Dennis Davis, a jurist, scholar and teacher of tax law and policy, competition law, company law, human rights issues and Chair of the Davis Tax Committee in South Africa and Honorary Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
“We are honoured to be hosting the first conference to celebrate the important anniversary milestone of the effective implementation of the Companies Act.
We hope that numerous law practitioners will join us for the conference and gain much knowledge and insight from their time on our campus,” said Professor Mongalo, conference convener and head of the MSA Law Department.
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