Among the General Assembly participants was ELI Secretary General Vanessa Wilcox. The Project was presented by Sir Geoffrey Vos, one of the ELI-ENCJ’s Project’s Reporters. The Principled Relationship of Formal and Informal Justice through the Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution Project began at a time when Sir Geoffrey was still President of the ENCJ. Now that it has been adopted by the ENCJ General Assembly, its outcome will become a part of the ENCJ’s standards. More information on the Statement can be found here.

Sir Geoffrey also reminded those present of the Conference on Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Courts, which will take place at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier (Germany) on 9 November 2018. The output of the Project will be presented and consideration of the most viable of the possible avenues recommended by the Project Team as fruit for future projects will also be considered.

The ELI would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Kees Sterk, member of the Dutch Council for the Judiciary, elected to succeed Nuria Díaz Abad as President of ENCJ, as well four new board members. For further information, kindly click here. The next ENCJ General Assembly will take place on 5–7 June 2019 in Bratislava (Slovakia).