Event Overview

Join the French-speaking event – Conférence Francophone – on “La Confidentialité dans tous ses états” organised in Brussels on 12 January 2024 by AIJA members Ferenc Ballegeer, Astrid Caporali, Mélisande Goffart, Sophie Lens, Julie Lo Bue, Pauline Van Parys, Eline Verelst (BEL), Francois Barré, Mathilde Carle, Marie Davy, Damien Devot, Romain Franzetti, Joelle Muchada (FR), Charles Duro, Philippe Sylvestre (LUX), Lorna Cela, Aurélie Conrad Hari, Stéphanie Oneyser, (SUI). 

The discussion will be divided into 3 parts:

  • Lawyers’ professional secrecy vs obligations of judicial transparency and access to information in the context of the fight against fraud and money laundering and/or for reasons of national security
  • Companies’ trade secrets vs freedom of competition, open courts principle and obligations of transparency in areas such as consumer health and the environment.
  • Citizens’ privacy vs new technologies and the growing phenomenon of personal data collection and exploitation 

The conference will take place at Tour & Taxis - La Maison de La Poste from 14:00 CET to 18:00 CET and will be followed by a walking dinner at Tour & Taxis - Entrepôt Royal from 18:30 CET. This will be the perfect occasion to network and share your views on crucial topics.

 
How to join?

The conference is free and open to all but registration is mandatory. A financial contribution (TBC) will be required to attend the walking dinner. A more complete invitation will be sent to you later in this respect, together with a more complete overview of the programme of the conference. In the meantime, please save the date and let us know of your interest in attending the conference before 02 January 2024 by sending an email to events@azamdarley.com.

 

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Fees & General Info

There are currently no registration fees available.

General terms and conditions

By registering you have to accept the general terms and conditions and accept that your registration is considered binding immediately, but participation to the event is possible only after full payment of the registration fee.

Please note that any arrangements related to the participation of the participant in an AIJA event, including but not limited to booking or cancellation of accommodation or flights, as well as respecting the cancellation deadlines indicated in the general terms and conditions, are the sole responsibility of the participant. AIJA shall not be held liable for any expenses the participant may suffer as the result of participant’s failure to comply with his/her obligations.

It is recommended for each participant to purchase a cancellation and travel insurance.

Please note that in-house counsel registrations are subject to review and confirmation by AIJA. AIJA considers in-house counsel professionals who hold a university degree in law allowing access to a bar association and practicing law as an in-house counsel in private, public, or non-profit companies, institutions or organisations. Please note that in-house counsel who are at the same time active as fee-earning lawyers or consultants are not eligible to the discounted in-house counsel fee.

Please read the general terms and conditions applicable for AIJA events.

Scholarships

If you are a lawyer under 35 years old and meet the requirements, apply to our Scholarship Programme for this event. You can check more details here.

Personal Protection

The personal data that you communicate to us shall be processed by the Iternational Association Of Young Lawyers (AIJA), with its registered office at Avenue de Tervueren 231, 1150 Brussels, Belgium (Tel: +32 2 347 33 34 - office@aija.com), in accordance with Act No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to data, files and freedoms and Regulation No. 2016/679 on data protection, as of its entry into force on May 25, 2018.

Your data will be managed by AIJA's General Services, Events and Accounts Section:

  • For the purpose of administering your registration for the event and your on-site access to the event;
  • In order to pay for the selected services - your bank details will be deleted after receipt of your payment;
  • In order to communicate information messages from AIJA.

To the extent necessary for the execution of their respective tasks, our subcontractors in charge of our seminar organisation, our IT infrastructure, our management, the production and maintenance of our website and extranet, are likely to gain access to your data from time to time. Their servers are located in the European Union.

Data relating to your participation in the event shall be stored for a period of 10 years. We are obliged to archive billing data until the end of the period required for our tax and accounting obligations, i.e. for 7 full tax years.

We shall store your contact information to keep you informed until you ask us to stop. You have the right to access your data and have it corrected if necessary.