THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2020 DATE: THURSDAY, 12 of MARCH 2020 VENUE: THE PRESIDENT HOTEL, Alexander Road, Sea Point 23 ANNUAL FAMILY LAW CONFERENCE MdT / UWC 2020

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ANNUAL FAMILY LAW CONFERENCE MdT / UWC 2020

DATE: THURSDAY, 12

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of MARCH 2020

VENUE: THE PRESIDENT HOTEL, Alexander Road, Sea Point

THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2020

07h30 -08h30 Registration at the President Hotel SESSION ROOM 1

08h30 Please be seated by 08h30

08h30 – 08h40 Welcome and opening – Prof Jacques de Ville, Dean, UWC 08h40 – 13h00

11h00 – 11h20 (tea break)

Update on the Hague Children’s Conventions and the work of the Hague Conference on parentage/surrogacy – Chair: -

- Gérardine Goh Escolar (The Hague Conference) - Capucine Page (The Hague Conference)

- Lord Justice Andrew Moylan (England)

- The Honourable John Jeffrey, Deputy Minister of Justice, South Africa – Trafficking

- Diahann Gordon-Harrison (National Rapporteur on Trafficking, Jamaica)

- Adv Garry Titus (National Coordinator for Trafficking in Persons, Western Cape)

- Justice Connie Mocumie (SCA) (SA) - Rachael Kelsey (Scotland, IAFL) - Justice Kate Pillay (High Court, KZN)

30 30 30 30 30 20 30 20 20 12h50 – 13h10 LGBTQI rights and family law – Chair:- Stephen Page (Australia)

- Dr Anastacia Tomson (SA) 20

13h10 – 14h00 LUNCH (at President Hotel)

14h00 – 17h30 LGBTQI rights and family law – Chair:- Stephen Page (Australia) (continued) - Prof Julia Sloth-Nielsen (UWC, SA) and Rachel Sloth-Nielsen 40

- Liberty Matthyse (Director, Gender Dynamix) 20

Surrogacy and Alternative Reproduction

(Tea Break - Prof Jens Scherpe (Cambridge University) 30

20 min) - Stephen Page (Australia) 30

- Barbara Connolly QC (London) 30

- Adv Janet McCurdie SC (Cape Bar) 20

19h00 Optional dinner (R400 per person) (cash bar available) at Life Grand Café, Pierhead Road, V & A Waterfront

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DATE: THURSDAY, 12

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of MARCH 2020

VENUE: THE PRESIDENT HOTEL, Alexander Road, Sea Point

THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2020

07h30 – 08h30 Registration

08h40 Please be seated at 08h40 SESSION ROOM 2

08h45 – 09h30 Mediation and Arbitration in family and child law disputes - Chair: Craig Schneider Introduction – Craig Schneider

- Dr Robert Simon (USA)

09h30 – 10h00 Tommy Tiger – The Movie

- Darren Mort, (Barrister – Australia)

10h00 – 12h00 (11h00 – 11h20 Tea Break)

Psychological consequences of Family Disputes – Chair:- Astrid Martalas Custody Fatigue Syndrome - Stacey Heard & Maria Vadas (USA)

Psychiatric perspective on rage – Larissa Panieri-Peter (Psychiatrist – SA) - Vincent Papaleo (Psychologist – Australia)

12h00 – 12h10 Movie

12h10 – 12h40 Millennials and how to communicate with them - Chair: - - Jaap Scholten

12h40 – 13h00 Developing Family Law and Procedural Reform

13h00 – 14h00 LUNCH

14h00 – 15h00 Reform of ADR in relation to family law matters and developing family law – an interactive session – Chair: Judge Connie Mocumie

- Ananda Louw (SA Law Commission) - Karabo Ozah (Centre for Child Law)

30 30

15h00 -15h20 TEA

15h20 – 16h00 Mediation Developments around the world - Panel Discussion: Chair:- Robert Simon, Craig Schneider, Martin Yodaiken, Vincent Papaleo (Australia)

16h00 – 16h40 Panel Discussion – The expert witness in court and family law disputes – Chair:

Maria Vadas, Robert Simon, Vincent Papaleo

16h40 Young Speakers Forum competition – Chair: Prof Julia Sloth-Nielsen A New Children's Commissioner for the Western Cape - Danielle Coetzer

Constitutional Court's FORSA Judgment: A judgment of convenience? The way forward - Aamina Petersen

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DATE: FRIDAY, 13

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of MARCH 2020

VENUE: THE PRESIDENT HOTEL, Alexander Road, Sea Point

FRIDAY, 13 MARCH 2020

SESSION ROOM 1

08h30 -09h50 Reform of SA marriage law

The Single Marriage issue paper – Prof Wesahl Domingo (Wits University, SA Law Commission) – An interactive session

Muslim Marriage update

- Adv Stewart Humphrey SC (Durban)

1 hr

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09h50 – 10h10 TEA

10h10 – 11h00 Judiciary Session 50

11h00 -13h15 Proprietary claims, offshore assets, structures, discovery and the expert witness - Chair: Alan Wright (Bowmans)

- Stephen Baker (Baker & Co, Jersey)

- Marcus Dearle (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, England and Hong Kong) - Adv Leon Kuschke SC (Cape Town)

- Faye Hall (Accountant, UK)

- Danielle Ladopoulos and Hilton Greenbaum (Accountants, SA)

30 30 30 30 10

13h15 – 14h00 LUNCH

14h10 – 16h10 Comparative Family Law SA and elsewhere - Nancy Zalusky Berg (Minneapolis, USA) - Hirotaka Honda (Honda Law Office, Japan)

- Marcus Dearle (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, England and Hong Kong) - Jaqueline Julyan SC (SA and UK)

30 30 30 30

16h10 – 16h30 TEA

16h30 – 17h30 Ethics, Family Law Practice and a Code of Conduct - Nancy Zalusky Berg (Minneapolis, USA) - Rachael Kelsey, IAFL (Scotland)

- SA Lawyer

20 20 10 17h30 Closure and cocktail party at venue

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DATE: FRIDAY, 13

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of MARCH 2020

VENUE: THE PRESIDENT HOTEL, Alexander Road, Sea Point

FRIDAY, 13 MARCH 2020

SESSION ROOM 2

08h30 Please be seated at 08h30

08h30 – 10h20 Children’s Rights – Chair:- Robert Simon

- Growing up in a connected world – emerging aspects of children's rights in the digital era in Africa - Sabine K Witting (Leiden University) - Hearing the voice of the child - Judge Brana Obradovic (Federal Circuit

Court, Australia)

- Hearing the voice of the child – Adv Julia Anderssen (Cape Bar) - Karabo Ozah (Centre for Child Law)

- "The rights of the girl child and the campaign for the exemption of sanitary pads from VAT" - Danielle Louw

20 20 20 20 20 Child Abduction

The “POAM Project” – the intersection between domestic violence and international parental child abduction – Dr Onyoja Momoh (Research Fellow, Centre for International Law, University of Aberdeen and Barrister, London)

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10h20 – 10h40 TEA

11h00 – 13h00 Customary Law - Chair:- Prof Lea Mwambene (UWC)

- Rethinking Customary Law and women’s rights in Nigeria – Dr Anthony Diala, UWC

- Custody disputes and African Customary Law in South Africa – Prof Lea Mwambene (UWC) and Dr Nkanyiso Sibanda (UWC)

- Rethinking the gender – culture law nexus through the lens of child marriage and bride wealth payment – Dr Jane Diala (UCT)

- Woman and woman marriage in customary law – Kagiso Maphelo

20 20 20 20 13h00 – 14h00 LUNCH (IAYFJM – meeting by invitation)

14h00 – 16h00 Justice for children

Chairs:- Prof Magdalena Arczewska (University of Warsaw, Poland) David Stucki (Juvenile Judge, USA)

Children of imprisoned mothers – Prof Magdalena Arczewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Questions / debate session

16h10 – 16h30 TEA

16h30 – 17h30 Sponsors:-

Main session room