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University of Aberdeen Lectures
INTERNATIONAL law firm CMS
Cameron McKenna recently
sponsored the first in the series
CMS Cameron McKenna Lectures
at the University of Aberdeen.
The lecture was given on
2 November 2001 by Lord Rodger
of Earlsferry with Lord Hope of
Craighead in the chair. Over a
period of five years each lecture in
this annual series will be given by a
distinguished lawyer and dedicated
to a person associated with law at
the University of Aberdeen who has
made a significant contribution as a
jurist or practitioner.
Lord Rodger’s lecture was dedicated
to David Daube who was
Professor of Jurisprudence at
Aberdeen in the 1950s before his
appointment as Regius Professor of
Civil Law at Oxford - where
Glasgow graduate Alan Rodger
became his pupil in the 1960s.
Daube was one of the most
outstanding scholars of Roman law
of the 20th century. The lecture,
entitled ‘Law for all times: the work
and contribution of David Daube’
was given under the auspices of the
Centre for the Study of the Civil
Law Tradition within the University
of Aberdeen’s, School of Law.
Society of Solicitors of Clackmannanshire
At the AGM of the Society Office Bearers were elected as follows
DEAN Stephen Rule
COUNCIL Gordon Wilson & John N J Andrew
TREASURER AND SECRETARY William Brooks Jarvis LIBRARIAN Gordon McKeand
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News
Criminal Law
Symposium
The Faculty of Solicitors of
Dunbartonshire are holding a
criminal law symposium at the
Beardmore Conference Hotel
in Clydebank on 12 February
2002.
This is the fourth time the
Faculty has run the event
which is designed to give
criminal practitioners five
hours CPD.The cost of the
conference is £85, anyone
wishing to attend can contact
Graeme Yeoman at Stirling &
Gilmour Solicitors on
0141 952 2669.
There’s a £25 book token on offer for the first correct entry drawn from the hat
across: down:
1 Nicholas or Nick revised and cut
article in contract (5,5)
6 Second prize for the northern
porgy (4)
9 Understand intentions that
are concealed or transparent (3,7)
10 Article’s about immediately (4)
12 Dispersed in western parts not east (6)
15 Fear and turn over the vegetable
caterpillar (5)
18 Newspaper article that’s also dated (4)
19 So TESSAs should be regarded (6)
21 City reached by taking M1 and A1
round Maidenhead (5)
22 It’s in a head, a constituent of the
bones and teeth (7)
24 Drug addicts can identify legal rights
(5)
25 Secure perhaps and free from danger
(6)
26 Scots strip Irish in Turkey (4)
28 Coin once worth about
one-third of a pound, now about one
pound (5)
29 Toddler’s first paces may be unsteady
– look! (6)
34 Metal guide (4)
35 Oil giant – it resorts to lawsuits (10)
36 Book bills passed (4)
37 Unusual thinkers - eg Magi (5,5)
Solutions should be sent to:
Crossword Competition,
The Journal, Studio 2001, Mile End, Paisley PA1 1JS
Closing date Friday January 18th 2002
1 Stop is in street (4)
2 Coward’s Christmas (4)
3 Jar as the serving-dish (5)
4 Unattached miss accepts ring (5)
5 Earnest Abram? (6)
7 Transfer document for sleigh? (10)
8 One stamp I’m collecting –
Christmas variety (10)
11 Emma’s held up by me to see
the tree (6)
13 Blairgowrie fruit file (4)
14 16 times 12 plus 1 – maybe (7)
16 Latin’s aura can be the essence of
December revels (10)
17 This cell can be found in stables
too (10)
20 Cook treats wine expert (6)
23 Place for the present three
men – no others (4)
27 Vegetable is hard to chew (6)
30 Free in gym to show
self-esteem (5)
31 Chat about an instrument of
torture (5)
32 One of 30 and one of fifteen (4)
33 “Works of nature” sung on
rising (4)