Lawyers and law students are being invited to a special event to formally launch a new Faculty scholarship and to mark the first anniversary of the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers Association (SEMLA).
European Lawyers Day at the Faculty featured a highly informative and thought-provoking talk by Philippe Sands, QC, law professor, author and international counsel.
The report by Esther Roberton on her Independent Review of Legal Services Regulation in Scotland has been published.
Four very different authors will discuss their latest works at the home of the master, in the Abbotsford Literary Sessions.
High-profile international lawyer, Philippe Sands, QC, promises to make it a special European Lawyers Day at the Faculty next week.
Two judges are to be the guest speakers at this year’s conference by the Faculty’s Employment Law Group (ELG).
The second of this year’s three Hamlyn Lectures will be hosted by the Faculty, and delivered by Robin Allen, QC, Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales.
Three members of Faculty, Eric Robertson (main), Derick Nelson (top) and Greg Farrell, have been appointed as full-time Advocate-Deputes in Crown Office.
Support has been voiced by the Faculty for ending the tacit relocation of commercial leases.
A senior member of Faculty, Aidan O'Neill, QC, has been featured as Lawyer of the Week in the law section of The Times.