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Ampersand launches ambitious national lecture series
2nd June 2009
We are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new lecture series under the banner of ‘The Key’.
The Key is an ambitious new, long term commitment from Ampersand to deliver superlative training to the Scottish legal industry and other professions.
The free to attend public lecture series will cover a wide range of topics including health and safety, shipping and public law. The series launches with:
“Aspects of Insolvency – Some Clarification and Remaining Pitfalls.”
This will be of particular interest to solicitors practicing in insolvency and commercial litigation, as well as insolvency practitioners. David Sellar QC will discuss some aspects of administration, which has become the favoured insolvency process. He will also consider the increasingly significant European insolvency regulation, particularly the meaning of a company’s “centre of main interest”. David Thomson, Advocate, will explore what happens when winding up goes wrong and other aspects of liquidation with particular reference to Lord Glennie’s Opinion in Purewal Enterprises Ltd v Cathay Loon Fung Limited [2008] CSOH 127.
The lecture will take place on 24th June at 5.30pm in The Royal Procurator Library, Glasgow and numbers are strictly limited.
The series will continue on 14th September at the Society of Advocates Library in Aberdeen where Simon Di Rollo QC and Graham Primrose QC will be joined by Professor Douglas Brodie in a seminar on Health and Safety.
On 26th October, at the same venue Robert Howie QC, with Robert Weir, Advocate, will talk about shipping.
This year’s lectures conclude on 16th November in The Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh where Aidan O’Neill QC with Jane Munro, Advocate, and Professor Adam Tomkins will deliver a seminar on Public Law.
All events begin at 5.30pm and will be followed by wine and snacks. All events are free and all contribute to 1 hour of CPD.
Commenting on the launch of the series, stable clerk, Alan Moffat said;
“Recent research that we have commissioned has highlighted the huge value the legal profession in Scotland places upon high quality training. As a stable we are committed to providing the highest possible level of training and that’s the thinking behind launching ‘The Key’.
But this is just the beginning. As well as these high profile public events we will be talking to law firms across Scotland about providing bespoke training at their own premises. We are very excited about this new development by the stable and we believe it will contribute considerably to delivering best practice.”
To book a free place for any of these lectures law practitioners are required to email thekey@ampersandstable.com or call 0131 260 5674.
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