AG addresses The Hague Conference on Private Law
Attorney General Kim Wilson spoke of the importance of Bermuda seeing itself as part of the global community when it comes to the law.She was addressing The Hague Conference on Private Law which is being hosted this week at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess hotel.The conference is a global inter-governmental organisation with 71 member states, plus the European Union.Sen Wilson spoke of the relevance of The Hague Conference to the Caribbean region and Bermuda.“It is commonly said that today’s world is a single global community. For some of you, as with us here in Bermuda, this is a development which offers many opportunities as it does challenges,” she noted.“In many ways Bermuda is a jurisdiction of unique contradictions. We are indeed one of the remotest (if not smallest) destinations in the world. In fact, a common local saying is that ‘Bermuda is another world’.“And yet geographical location and limited size aside, we have managed to carve our own little niche in the global tourism industry, and we are considered one of the premier international insurance and reinsurance domiciles.“Nowhere is this global interconnectivity more exemplified than in our legal arena and the ever increasing need for our respective jurisdictions to cooperate and to reconcile our domestic interests with our international relations, to our mutual benefit.”Sen Wilson noted key issues where cooperation is important including illegal drug control and protecting domestic IT networks from cyber attacks.She added: “Here in Bermuda we look to a future in anticipation of increasingly availing ourselves of the benefits of private international law as relates to regional interconnectedness.”