Pro Bono Committee

All submissions to be sent to Pamela Kovacs pamela.kovacs@lawsociety.sk.ca

All content submitted must:

• not have been previously published;
• include your name, email address, firm/equivalent and city;
• be authored by members of the Committee (in the case of multiple authors, at least one author must be a committee member. Non-member individuals such as regulators, industry experts, government officials and other high-profile individuals may be permitted to contribute if they are not in private practice).

Written content submitted must:

• be in the region of 500-2,000 words (longer copy may be considered);
• be submitted in MS word format;
• acknowledge all sources, but keep endnotes to a minimum; and
• include a short abstract of one-two sentences and up to ten keywords.

In regards to audio/film content:

• please discuss your plans with me prior to submission, to ensure the appropriate process with the IBA team.

Material will be published subject to the IBA's standard terms and conditions:

1. articles for publication should be submitted to the committee’s Newsletter Officer for review;
2. articles will be uploaded to the committee’s publication page in the first instance;
3. article authors must be members of the committee. Exceptions may be possible where authors are for example regulators, government officials or industry experts and not in private practice;
4. the article must be the original work of the author, should not have been previously published, and should not currently be under consideration by another publisher. If it contains material that is someone else’s copyright, the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner must be obtained and evidence of this submitted with the article and the material should be clearly identified and acknowledged within the text. The article shall not, to the best of the author’s knowledge, contain anything which is libellous, illegal, or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights; and
5. copyright shall be assigned to the IBA and the IBA will have the exclusive right to first publication, both to reproduce and/or distribute an article (including the abstract) ourselves throughout the world in electronic, printed or any other medium, and to authorise others (including Reproduction Rights Organisations such as the Copyright Licensing Agency and the Copyright Clearance Center) to do the same. Following first publication, such publishing rights shall be non-exclusive, except that publication elsewhere will require permission from and acknowledgement of the IBA. Such permission may be obtained from IBA Content at editor@int-bar.org

    

Full terms and conditions here