Public and Professional Interest Division
The PPID constitutes a wide array of projects, activities, committees and other entities focusing on issues and professional interests that make the practice of law a profession and not only an occupation. The stated objectives of the Division are to promote an interchange of information and views among Member Organisations of the Association and its individual members about the public and professional interest activities of the legal profession throughout the world; to support and promote those activities, the Rule of Law and the defence of human rights; to facilitate communication among Member Organisations and its members; to provide the opportunity to Member Organisations and all members to be active in the Division through its Bar Issues Commission ('BIC'), committees, fora and other groupings; and to undertake such related projects as may be approved from time to time by the Division’s Council.
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Her knee-cap broken.”
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