We held our annual Junior Awards Ceremony yesterday to recognise the achievements from our pupils in S1-3. 🏅 It was a great celebration of success! 🎉 Thanks also to our guest speaker and former pupil Scott Clair for a very inspiring key note speech. 👏🏻 #HolyRoodAwards

Two years and absolutely no regrets later! ⚖️ ⁦Faculty of Advocates⁩ #facultyofadvocates #scottishbar

Election Day tradition - watching Blackadder III's 'Dish & Dishonesty' (featuring the late, great Vincent Hanna) before the exit poll. #RottenBorough #DunnyOnTheWold #CountryGentlemansPigFertiliserGazette

Mediterranean shores and my heart will go on.

Advocate General appointed, at last. Catherine Smith KC (as she is for now) is a highly talented and respected silk. Faculty of Advocates wishes her every success in her new position. thenational.scot/news/24549944.…

New law reporters added to the Session Cases team. We are delighted to announce that the following advocates have been appointed to our team: David Blair, Scott Clair, Morag McEwan, Alannah McGinley and Kristian Whitaker.

Ampersand’s Scott Clair appointed to the Session Cases team.

In a little work update from me(!), I am delighted to have been appointed to the panel of Standing Junior Counsel to the Advocate General for Scotland. gov.uk/government/new…

The historic Opening of the Legal Year is to be livestreamed for the first time from the Court of Session. From 10am on Monday 23 September, the ceremony to mark the beginning of the 2024-25 term will be available to watch as it happens bit.ly/3B9BU11

Wishing all the very best to this year's Devils starting their training with Faculty of Advocates today! This was me on that very day three years ago... and I haven't looked back since! ⚖️

Faculty welcomes new cohort of aspiring advocates #legal bit.ly/4dEzZix

Emergency surgery to have my gallbladder removed after an extremely painful 36 hours was certainly not how I planned spending Halloween! However, the fantastic staff of the NHS (plus Christopher Clair-Ward and Pauline Clair) have looked after me very well. 🤒

Not one of the books I have at home that I dip into very often! 📚

Three years and the best decision I ever made later! #ScottishBar #FacultyofAdvocates

An unusual case in the Sheriff Appeal Court - on the law regulating the exhumation of human remains. Family members of a deceased young woman sought lawful authority to remove her remains from Edinburgh to Monaco for reburial. scotcourts.gov.uk/media/siap4ykm…

Sheriff Appeal Court grants permission for Monaco reburial of Edinburgh teen who died in 2002 scottishlegal.com/articles/sheri…

Wishing my (very first!) devil, Amy Hunter, all the very best on calling to the Scottish Bar Faculty of Advocates today . She’s worked exceptionally hard to get there and I know she will have a fantastic career. Black Chambers