The Legal Clinic and Human Rights Centre achieves its objectives through different activities, including the organization of lectures/seminars on legal topics.
Within this framework and in cooperation with the American Bar Association (ABA), the Centre has organized a lecture entitled “ Alternative Panel Sanctions and its implementation in both the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United States of America: Reality and Hope”, in March 2019. The lecture was presented by Judge Richard Giblin and it was open to public, faculty members and law students.
The event was a platform for academics, students and local as well as international institutions to discuss matters in regard to the implementation of the “Alternative Panel Sanctions Code” which aims at the rehabilitation of ex-convicts and the minimization of the harms that may be inflicted on them personally or on their family members.
Moreover, the lecture was organized to raise awareness on the importance of alternative panel sanctions to achieve justice in the society, in particular in the Kingdom of Bahrain as the first country in the region that has enacted the law and applied the alternative sanctions including, among other procedures, community service, taking part in rehabilitation and training programmes. In discussing the legal system of the US, the lecture aimed at recommending the best practices to be adopted in accordance to replacing imprisonment punishments with alternative punishments.
