Fez to host international lawyers union congress in 2005

The international lawyers union decided to hold its 2005 congress August 30-September 03, 2005 in the Moroccan imperial city of Fez.

The decision was made at the closure here of the union's 2003 congress. Some 1,000 attorneys from 76 countries took part in the Lisbon congress, including 16 from Morocco. The union, created in 1927, musters over 200 bars, i.e. two million lawyers from some 110 countries.