The Annual Meeting of the Scottish LegalHistory Group will take place in the Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh on 18th October. The programme will be as follows:
10:00 – Coffee
10:30 – Prof Dauvit Broun (Glasgow), “The earliest extant letter written in Scotland by a lawyer on behalf of his client: British Library Harleian MS 2355 f.9rb-va”
11:15 – Mr Roddy Cairns (Strathclyde), “From nominate contracts to necessity: the history of implied terms in Scots contract law”
12:00 – AGM
12:30 – Break for refreshments
14:00 – Prof John Finlay (Glasgow), “A life in dispute: David Clyne SSC (1790-1833)”
14:45 – Dr Sarah Leith (St Andrews), “‘Antique’ Smith and Burns Chronicle Reports of Manuscript Forgery”
15:30 – Mr Huw Sherrard (Edinburgh), “Scotland’s Law of Arms: the long twentieth century”
16:15 – Close
Those wishng to attend should contact Dr Leslie Dodd: L.Dodd@napier.ac.uk
