The Faculty of Advocates’ scholarship programmes aim to remove barriers to membership of the Scottish Bar for those with the skills and motivation to practice as advocates. Applications are now invited from those considering commencing devilling in 2023.
International Women’s Day, which takes place tomorrow, gives us all the opportunity to recognise the contribution women make in the workplace and throughout society.
A portrait of the Right Hon Lady Dorrian, commissioned to mark her elevation as the first woman to hold the office of Lord Justice Clerk, has been unveiled in Parliament Hall.
The Bar Council of England and Wales, Bar of Northern Ireland, Faculty of Advocates and Bar of Ireland unequivocally condemn the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
The committee members for the new Junior Bar Association have been elected.
A double-bill of short operettas by composer Tom Cunningham and writer Alexander McCall Smith will be performed in Edinburgh in April.
Faculty believes long-term solutions are required to address instances where residential care services in Scotland receive cross-border placements of children and young people subject to English High Court Deprivation of Liberty orders.
Faculty members have elected Neil Mackenzie QC as the new Keeper of the Advocates Library.