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14 Mar

Tumbling Lassie announces new chair and key events for 2024

Since its inception in 2015 the Faculty of Advocates’ Tumbling Lassie Appeal has raised over £100 000. With that milestone reached its first chair, Alan McLean KC, has stepped down. He is succeeded by another of the Appeal’s founders, Sheriff Maryam Labaki.

01 Mar

FACBA donates in support of the homeless

The Faculty of Advocates Criminal Bar Association (FACBA) has donated £2 000 to Homeless Project Scotland, a Glasgow-based charity that provides support to people facing housing insecurity.

15 Dec

Edward Kane, Advocate Is Back (And This Time, It’s Spooky!)

Scotland’s best known (fictional) Advocate is back in action this month in The Scotsman with this year’s month-long Christmas serial, ‘Edward Kane and the Supernal Sisters’.  The story focuses on the popularity of seances and other spirited events in the mid 1900s.   The introduction to the new series starts here: https://www.