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Dear Dr Chee Soon Juan On behalf of the IBA Officers, I am writing in response to your letter dated 28, February. Thank you for your letter. We have read carefully your remarks and appreciate the heartfelt manner in which they were written. We intend to provide the opportunity, in Singapore rather than remotely, for robust discussions among our large and influential membership and all other delegates and media, on the rule of law as well as on many other aspects of international and cross-border legal practice. This will give attendees the opportunity to meet with and absorb the range of Singaporean, and all other views. We believe it would not be right to presume that such delegates would be swayed as one body by any single view they might encounter. The opportunity is for them to network, discuss and debate, and we know from experience the merits of this approach. Although we understand your urging of us to take a different approach, we ask that you recognize our position. We would also like to request that you publish our earlier detailed letter on your website in the way that you published your own. I am sure we all agree on the proposition that it is good for people to have the opportunity to hear both sides of a debate. Sincerely Mark
Ellis
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