Marbella will bring together some of the most prominent names in Spanish justice on 12 and 13 November, when the Hotel ME Marbella hosts the third edition of the OKDIARIO Legal Conference.
The event opens on Thursday 12 November at 3:30 pm, with a keynote at 4:10 pm by Rafael Catalá, former Minister of Justice. Sessions resume on Friday 13 November from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Judicial independence and politicisation is one of the central debates. It features Wenceslao Olea, Supreme Court magistrate and former member of the General Council of the Judiciary; María Tardón, National Court judge; Manuel García-Castellón, former National Court judge; and David Maman, a judge specialising in violence against women.
The programme also includes:
- a session on the fight against ETA, led by Enrique Barón, chief superintendent and former Commissioner General of Information of the National Police;
- a roundtable on the balance of powers, with Celso Rodríguez Padrón, former president of the Madrid High Court of Justice, Javier Gómez Bermúdez, judge on leave and lawyer, and Luis Ángel Garrido Bengoechea, magistrate of the Basque Country High Court of Justice;
- panels on the future of large law firms and artificial intelligence, the role of notaries, and corporate restructuring and insolvency law. Speakers include representatives of the General Council of Notaries, Paredes & Asociados, Kepler-Karst and Valoralia, and commercial court judge Andrés Sánchez Magro.
The closing remarks will come from Isabel Valriberas, dean of the Ceuta Bar Association, and Eduardo Inda, director of OKDIARIO.
Admission is free until capacity is reached. Register here.
