Justice Minister Sabry represents SL at World Law Congress 2021

Justice Minister PC Ali Sabry represented Sri Lanka and shared insights as a panellist at the World Law Congress 2021 from 2-3 December in Barranquilla, Colombia.

The main organisation holding its biennial congress within the framework is the World Jurist Association (WJA), which has special consultative status to the United Nations (UN).

The Justice Minister Sabry participated in the panel discussion titled ‘Rule of law, the new national security geo-strategy and legal certainty’. The other panellists of the panel featured former Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls, Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, former US Defence Secretary and CIA Director Leon Edward Panetta, and the previous Ministers of Defence of Spain and Italy Maria Dolores de Cospedal and Giampaolo Di Paola. During the World Law Congresses, over 2,000 worldwide leaders gather to discuss current matters that the legal world should address. At the World Law Congresses, heads of State, chief justices, justices, judges, academics, notaries, registrars, lawyers, law students, and jurists in general share a single forum.

It was attended not only the most distinguished jurists, but also journalists, politicians, businessmen, ambassadors and other professionals whose career converges with law-related topics: human rights, financial litigation, education, constitutionalism, intellectual property, free journalism, democracy, among other topics, are discussed every two years during this leading worldwide event.

The WJA has celebrated biennial congresses around the world since 1965, all of which have focused on the promotion of the ‘Rule of Law’, as a guarantor of freedom and development for nations. Other law-related organisations also find a place to celebrate and share their knowledge with the wider legal community attending the World Law Congress.