Trainings & Legal Incubators

Trainings on the International Laws retified by Pakistan:

You need experience to get experience”, and this seems to be the biggest issue for people transitioning into the workforce these days. Employers in today’s labor market rely heavily on resumes that illustrate a relevant work history, whether that’s from internships, volunteer work, or actual job experience. A practical work background carries a major significance when attempting to enter the law practice.

These technical training of Admiralty Law strengthens those skills that each lawyer before coming to the field of Maritime needs to master. ILP and RCIMLP believe such maritime related development programs enable lawyers to become efficient in the field of Maritime.

RCIMLP offers training in the following areas:

  • Air Crash Investigations
  • Short Landing of Cargo
  • Loss of Cargo
  • Damage and Contamination
  • Tort of Conversion
  • Maritime liens
  • Ship arrests and Releases from arrest
  • Collision, Fire
  • Grounding
  • General Average and Salvage
  • Ship breaking Shipbuilding
  • Sale and Purchase of Vessels
  • Charter Party Claims
  • Bills of Lading disputes
  • Ship owners liability
  • Demurrage
  • Over and under Invoicing issues and Charter parties

Research Center for International Maritime Law and Practice (RCIM Law and Practice), Pakistan foresees to impart training on International laws and treaties ratified by Pakistan. The international laws trainings shall open avenues to interpret legally and strategically the implications and implementation of laws governing global dynamics. These include trainings on:

  • Convention on the privileges and immunities of the UN 1948
  • Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961
  • Optional Protocol on Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relation concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes
  • Vienna Convention on Consular Relation 1963
  • Convention on the code of conduct for liner conference
  • International Convention on arrest of ships 1999
  • Vienna Convention on law of treaties,1969
  • Vienna Convention on succession of states in respect of treaties 1978
  • MARPOL
  • Basel Convention
  • Rotterdam convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade
  • UN convention against transnational organized crimes
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  • International Covenant on Economic
  • Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  • Convention against torture (CAT)
  • The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and others etc.

The RCIMLP shall impart trainings at all level including generals and specialized subjects of legal learning. The general training includes:

  • Legal Drafting
  • Case fillings procedures
  • Online Legal Research
  • English Writing Skills
  • Court Visits
  • Law moots

    Client Counselling;

    • Attorney Client Privilege
    • Professional Ethics

    Improvisational Acting;

    • Hosting Legal Shows with Senior Legal Fraternity
  • Compiling of Activity Book (Criminal, Civil, Corporate)
  • Communication Skills

Legal Incubators System:

Research Center for International Maritime Law and Practice (RCIM Law and Practice), Pakistan shall also work as Incubator system of International & Maritime laws and its evolution in Pakistan. It is a commitment to expanding access to justice in Pakistan and abroad, for playing the vital role in helping to create national interest in incubators for International law, residency programs, and postgraduate legal education courses. The establishment Incubation Center is novel and it basically aims to provide a core of skilled International Admiralty law practitioners interested in creating economically viable law practices in Pakistan and abroad. The incubation centers will enable newly-admitted lawyers to acquire the range of skills necessary to launch successful international law practices and even to get enrolled at their respective bars. The economic downturn in recent years has brought added urgency to that challenge, and this topic is now at the forefront of discussions on the future of the profession nationally and internationally. RCIMLP considers Incubation Center as an institution that assists entrepreneurs in developing their business and solving problems associated with it, especially at the initial stages, by providing an array of business and technical services, initial seed funds, lab facilities, advisory, network and linkages. Research Center for International Maritime Law and Practice (RCIM Law and Practice), Pakistan considers legal incubators as the need of time, incubation center nurture ideas and smell short and long comings hence assisting in policy formulation of various kind and strengthening the Maritime legal skeleton.