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Counting down to World Bar Conference

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.

Bar’s senior woman to address young lawyers

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).

Glasses raised for another successful World IP Day Conference

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.

Not easy, but draft for domestic abuse offence could be improved, says Faculty

The Faculty has voiced misgivings about the draft of a new criminal offence of domestic abuse.

Consultation on a criminal offence of domestic abuse

World Bar Conference 2016 drawing near

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.

Welcome to the latest Eurodevils

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.

Draft Order in Council for Transfer of Specified Functions of Employment Tribunal to First-Tier Tribunal for Scotland

Fears expressed over blueprint for Employment Tribunal devolution

A framework for the devolution of the Employment Tribunal system in Scotland has been criticised by the Faculty.

Historic Goering cross-examination put under the spotlight

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.