The Tumbling Lassie Committee will host two events next month to acknowledge Anti-Slavery Day and provide opportunities to reflect on and raise awareness of the ongoing human trafficking and modern slavery in Scotland.
The Hon. Lady Haldane will deliver the keynote speech at a half-day conference organised by the Faculty of Advocates Employment Law Group next week.
The past decade had brought significant changes, but the ultimate goal remained the same – to make the courts more efficient, more user-friendly and more in line with modern public expectations, the Lord President said today.
The closing date for entries for the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award 2024 has been extended to the end of September.
Scotland's leading crime writing festival will be back in Stirling again this year with a programme packed with leading authors.
The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland will again be joint national sponsors of the Legal Walks, organised annually by the Access to Justice Foundation to raise money to fund much-needed pro bono services.
Two rock musicals featuring Faculty member Roddy MacLeod and Deputy Advocates Clerk Elizabeth Archibald will take place at the Mackenzie Building during the Edinburgh Festival.
When I started as a young criminal lawyer, I’d sometimes wonder: “If it was that bad, why didn’t she just leave him?”