IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
2 Nov - 7 Nov 2025
Session information
Interim report on the project “The Rule of Law and Judicial Selection: Developing a Toolkit for Improving Outcomes and Accountability in Selection Processes”
Tuesday 4 November (1115 - 1230)
Committee(s)
Rule of Law Forum
(Lead)
Bar Issues Commission
Forum for Barristers and Advocates
IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit
Judges' Forum
Litigation Committee
Description
The project, funded by the IBA and carried out jointly with the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, has brought together the relevant professionals from divergent geographic regions and legal systems in order to analyse how judicial selection processes can be reviewed in order to improve outcomes and accountability, thereby strengthening the rule of law. The project has started in July 2024 and is expected to be concluded in December 2026. By the time of the 2025 IBA Annual Conference in Toronto, the advisory group of the project would like to share its emerging findings with the audience. In particular, the session will test ideas for the “toolkit” of recommended actions that practising lawyers can take to strengthen judicial selection in their jurisdictions, and to counteract the rule of law damage that can result from opaque, nepotistic or unduly politicised selection processes.