{"id":3029,"date":"2013-09-30T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2016-04-08T15:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:12:42","slug":"dato-dr-cyrus-das-and-steven-thiru-were-speakers-at-the-18th-commonwealth-law-conference-14-18-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/news\/dato-dr-cyrus-das-and-steven-thiru-were-speakers-at-the-18th-commonwealth-law-conference-14-18-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Dato&#8217; Dr. Cyrus Das and Steven Thiru were speakers at the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference &#8211; 14-18 April, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) recently organised the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme of the conference was &#8220;Common Challenges \u2013 Common Solutions: Commonwealth, Commerce and Ubuntu&#8221; and it was attended by over 800 delegates. <\/p>\n<p>There were 48 sessions divided into 4 topical streams, namely; Corporate and Commercial Law, Legal and Judicial Profession, Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law and Contemporary Legal Topics. <\/p>\n<p>The firm was represented by our Managing Partner, Dato&#8217; Dr. Cyrus Das and Steven Thiru. Dato&#8217; Dr. Das is a Life President of the CLA and he chaired the session entitled &#8220;Pluralistic Legal Systems : Custom, Tradition and Religion&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Steven Thiru, who is a Council member of the CLA, delivered a paper on the Lina Joy case in the &#8220;Unity and Diversity in the Commonwealth : Five interesting cases from across the Commonwealth&#8221; session. Both sessions were very well attended and well received. Steven Thiru also spoke, on behalf of the Malaysian Bar, in the session entitled &#8220;Lawyers in the Frontline&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3030\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3030\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shook-lin-and-bok-newsflash-18th-commonwealth-law-conference-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Dr. Venkat Iyer (Editor of the Commonweath Lawyer), Mr. Steven Thiru, Dato Dr. Cyrus Das.\" width=\"401\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3030\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Dr. Venkat Iyer (Editor of the Commonweath Lawyer), Mr. Steven Thiru, Dato Dr. Cyrus Das.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) recently organised the 18th Commonwealth Law Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme of the conference was &#8220;Common Challenges \u2013 Common Solutions: Commonwealth, Commerce and Ubuntu&#8221; and it was attended by over 800 delegates. There were 48 sessions divided into 4 topical streams, namely; Corporate and Commercial Law, Legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shooklin.com.my\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}