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Sri Lanka/Scotland/South Africa: Mixed Systems Contact GroupNote on contact established over 8-10 December 2005 in Colombo, the focus being a conference organised jointly by the Universities of Colombo, Edinburgh and Aberdeen at the Galle Face Hotel on 9 December 2005. This meeting was postponed from its originally scheduled date in early January 2005 because of the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami disaster. A copy of the conference programme can be downloaded here. I feel the trip was a definite success in terms of a start for future contact. As to this, and that we all very much enjoyed and appreciated the hospitality and kindness shown to us in Sri Lanka, I am sure I speak also for my fellow Scots and South Africans. Our working sessions showed that lawyers of the three countries do have things in common and I hope we can build on this commonality. I do not doubt that there is scope to renew and extend legal contact between Sri Lanka and South Africa. There is also room to build contact between Sri Lanka and Scotland, which has a natural basis in the links which have been established in recent years by Sri Lankan postgraduates. (The idea of a conference was mooted at a meeting attended by Sri Lankans in Perth, Scotland, in July 2003.) While there is clearly scope for a range of forms of particular contact, I hope we can aim for an overarching triangular contact between the three mixed systems, which have much in common. In Scotland we have seen the benefit of contact with South Africa’s well developed civilian system. I suggest that we can think of a future conference leading to a book comparing the three systems. I would be happy to work towards this project. I hope to visit Sri Lanka for about 6 weeks from mid-October 2006. That will be an opportunity to advance plans for collaborative work. I will be working on a comparison of positive (aquisitive) prescription in the three jurisdictions. My wife, Anne MacKenzie, a lawyer who works as a Reporter to the Children’s Panel in Scotland, hopes to learn about Sri Lankan law and practice in the child protection area. With all best wishes for the new year which I hope will see a continuation of what we started in Colombo last month – a visit by one or more Sri Lankans to Scotland would be very much welcome! School of Law, University of Aberdeen 9 January 2006
The participants in the conference are listed below.
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