Upcoming Events and Initiatives
2025 Events and Initiatives
Asia Fair Trial Practices Roundtable
The Asia Fair Trial Practices Roundtable is an ongoing initiative that fosters dialogue, collaboration, and innovation to enhance the region’s fair and just legal systems.
Topic: Trust Building Strategies when Representing People Who Use Drugs in Criminal Trials
Date: 10 April
Platform: Virtually via Zoom
Providing Legal Support Services for Juvenile Clients Workshop
Building on the success of the workshop organized in Chiang Mai, Thailand, BABSEACLE, in collaboration with White & Case LLP and the Foreign Trade University (FTU), is pleased to announce that the workshop will be hosted at FTU in Hanoi, Vietnam.
This impactful workshop is designed to equip participants with practical skills while emphasizing ethics and professional responsibility. Attendees will explore essential ethical considerations in providing legal support to juvenile clients, ensuring they develop both technical proficiency and a strong sense of ethical obligations as future legal practitioners.
Dates: 26-27 APril 2025
Venue: Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam
3rd Asia CLE Conference
The Asia Clinical Legal Education (CLE) Conference is an engaging event dedicated to enhancing Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programs. Explore a variety of models and methods aimed at strengthening clinical legal education and improving access to justice. The conference features interactive sessions, workshops, and strategic planning discussions, providing participants with valuable insights and practical strategies.
Dates: 23-25 May 2025
Venue: Uniserv CMU, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2025 Asia CLE Mock Sentencing Hearing Workshop and Event
As a means to support and strengthen the value of the rule of law, fair trial and access to justice in the region, BABSEACLE, along with many of its justice sector partners, will be organizing the 2025 Asia CLE Mock Sentencing Hearing Workshops and Event. This event legal training will provide a platform for potential legal practitioners from many countries throughout Asia, in order to improve their legal skills, the substantive legal knowledge and strengthen their appreciation of fair trial, access to justice and Rule of Law principle.
Dates: 26-27 May 2025
Venue: Uniserv, Chiang Mai, Thailand
13th Asia Pro Bono Conference & Access to Justice Exchange
The conference organized by a network consortium from throughout Asia and globally, is the largest annual gathering of persons supporting and engaged in access to justice, pro bono and public interest law in Asia.
The APBC will be an opportunity to share experiences, advocacies, and ideas not only among Asians but to learn as well from experts, practitioners, and policymakers from other regions of the world.
Dates: APBC 3-5 October 2025
A2JX: 1-2, 6-8 October 2025
Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia