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New Clerk of Faculty
A new Clerk of Faculty, Richard Pugh, has been elected in a seven-way contest.
A new Clerk of Faculty, Richard Pugh, has been elected in a seven-way contest.
Bookings are being taken for the Faculty’s 12th World Intellectual Property Day Conference, which is expected once again to attract a full house.
The voices of victims and their families should be heard at prisoners’ parole hearings, but only to a limited extent, the Faculty has suggested.
The Tumbling Lassie Seminar is branching out on its own, after three years as an adjunct to the annual Charity Ball.
A senior criminal practitioner, Frances McMenamin, QC, will be a Faculty representative on a new panel looking at the way sexual offence cases are dealt with in the courts.
Aspiring Advocates will have a chance to see life at the Scottish Bar when the Faculty holds an Open Day for S5 and S6 school pupils and university students.
Seven members of Faculty have helped students prepare for a major international mooting competition.
Hundreds of senior school students from throughout the UK will descend on Edinburgh this weekend, seeking to be crowned Bar Mock Trial Competition national champions.
Two innovative judges from the US, Victoria Pratt and Ginger Lerner-Wren, made a big impression with talks on Therapeutic Justice at a Faculty seminar - and it seems Scotland made a big impression on them.
A stimulating and entertaining talk by Lady Wolffe to mark International Women’s Day ended with a hope – that such days could soon be consigned to history.