The Rt Hon Lady Dorrian has been appointed Lord Justice Clerk, replacing the Rt Hon Lord Carloway following his elevation to the post of Lord President. It is the first time a woman has held either of the two senior judicial titles in Scotland.
Severe pressure on resources has been highlighted by the Faculty as causing lengthy delays in the appointment of guardians to people who are unable to look after their own affairs.
Delegates from near and far are heading to Scotland for the “homecoming” of the World Bar Conference, a major event of the international legal calendar.
The senior woman practising at the Scottish Bar, Frances McMenamin , QC, will pass on some of her experience to the next generation when she delivers the keynote address at the annual conference of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association (SYLA).
Whisky will be a main feature of the Faculty’s ninth World Intellectual Property Day Conference, when the organisers expect to toast another full house.
The Faculty has voiced misgivings about the draft of a new criminal offence of domestic abuse.
The 2016 World Bar Conference is drawing ever closer, and a preview of the three-day event, written by the Dean of Faculty, James Wolffe, QC, has been published in The Scotsman.
A special vote of thanks was reserved for Scotland’s judges as the Faculty welcomed the latest overseas lawyers to join the prized Eurodevil scheme.
A framework for the devolution of the Employment Tribunal system in Scotland has been criticised by the Faculty.
It is widely considered the most significant cross-examination of modern times, and members of Faculty will be able to judge it for themselves when a US attorney and avid student of the Nuremberg Trials analyses the questioning of Hermann Goering.