abstract:The International Bar Association (IBA), founded in 1947, is a voluntary bar association of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. The IBA currently has a membership of 50,000 individual lawyers and 200 bar associations and law societies.
The council of the InternationalBarAssociation, alarmed by the accountants' plans, last year called on world regulators to consider preventing such firms from offering other services to companies whose books they audit.
On Tuesday, the Human Rights Institute of the InternationalBarAssociation (IBAHRI) told the BBC's Sinhala service that the government's move to impeach the chief justice risked being seen as an attempt to curtail the independence of the judiciary.