The Gazette 1991

GAZETTE

JULY/AUGUST 1991

Younger Members News

Scotland the brave

What do Liam Brady and the

Younger Members Committee

(YMC) have in common? Not a lot,

you might think.

Well they have both recently

been making their presence felt in

Glasgow; Liam as the new

Manager of Celtic and the YMC in

the persons of Robert Hennessy

and your correspondent, as

delegates at the Scottish Young

Lawyers Association (SYLA) Inter-

national Guests Weekend (IGW)

held in the city from 27th to 30th

June.

The IGW coincided with, and to

some extent overlapped with the

SYLA's Arbitration Conference held

on Saturday 29th June at the

Stakis Grosvenor Hotel where the

International Guests were based.

Those attending the IGW in-

cluded representatives from Young

Lawyers Groups in Denmark,

Holland, Belgium and England.

Ireland was well represented -

apart altogether from the YMC duo

- with a delegation of six from the

Northern Ireland Young Solicitors

Group (NIYSG), the Chairman of

the Society of Young Solicitors

(SYS) and his wife, together with

Edel Gormley, who delivered the

Irish Groups paper at the Con-

ference.

Indeed, a little piece of history

was made when the writer repre-

sented the "Shamrock Group"

(NIYSG, SYS and YMC) at the

Conference's opening session.

In addition to papers from the

various National Groups, the

Conference schedule included

contributions from leading Scottish

practitioners and academics. The

first paper, on The New York

Convention, was delivered by Mr.

Walter Semple of Messrs Bird

Semple Fyfe Ireland.

The next speaker was Mr. James

Arnott of Messrs MacRoberts who

dealt with Scots Law and F.I.D.I.C.

The subject considered by Professor

John Murray QC of Edinburgh

University was the Uncitral Model

Law. The final address, on Pre-

arbitral Referee Procedure, was by

Mr. Konstantinos D Magliveras from

Aberdeen University.

Although the "weekend" began

with dinner on Thursday, Friday

was the first day with a full itiner-

ary, beginning with a coach trip to

Edinburgh where the first stop was

Parliament House, home to

Scotland's supreme Civil and

Criminal Courts. The group was

treated to a specially arranged,

guided tour of the Advocates

(Barristers) Hall and Library, with

the contingent from Ireland in par-

ticular enjoying the experience as

none of the party had been inside

the Belfast or Dublin Bar Libraries!

After lunch, the obligatory visit to

Edinburgh Castle was followed by

a reception very generously hosted

by the President of the Law Society

of Scotland, Mr. James Campbell.

An evening tour along the shores

of Lough Lomond was rounded off

with dinner in the Drovers Inn,

which managed to re-create the

authentic atmosphere of the 17th

Century.

Sight seeing of a very different

kind was the order of the day on

Saturday when flights were organ-

ised from Cumbernauld Airport

providing birds eye views over

Sterling, Edinburgh and Glasgow. A

very enjoyable afternoon finished

with an impromptu acrobatic dis-

play which left the onlookers,

though thankfully not the pilot

breathless and dizzy.

The highlight of the weekend

was the SYLA's Midsummer Ball at

the Royal Concert Hall, a magnifi-

cent venue, in aid of the British

Heart Foundation and Chest, Heart

and Stroke Scotland which were

appropriate charities to benefit

given the sheer pace of the High-

land Dancing in which everyone

very actively participated. Although

it was not admitted to our col-

leagues from the NIYSG, the Ball

was at the very least on a par with

the recent Bicentenary Ball at the

RDS.

The weekend was to have

concluded with Sunday Brunch but

two fire alarms in the hotel pro-

vided the Conference with its own

fashion parade of night attire.

These unscheduled additions to the

programme did not however lessen

in any way the success of the

weekend and the truly heroic work

of Stuart Murray and his colleagues

in the SYLA. Everyone felt really at

home and experienced at first hand

the genuine sentiment of the

traditional Scots saying "Haste ye

back".

John Campbell

Y.M.C.

Call to Photographers

"A photograph is not only an image las a painting is an

image), an interpretation of the real, it is also a trace,

something directly stencilled off the reel, like

footprint

deeth meek".

Susan Sontag

Readers are requested to send (old or new) photographs of lawyers and

photographs (old and new) of scenes associated with lawyers which

will be considered for publication in the

Gazette.

From time to time,

a photograph is also required for the front cover.

Readers will appreciate that not all photographs, negatives, etc are

capable of being reproduced satisfactorily on the

Gazette

paper.

Accordingly, it may not be possible to reproduce all photographs

submitted. Photographs must be clear, of an appropriate quality, and

should be accompanied by a description of the persons or the scene

(Courthouse, etc.) the subject matter of the photograph. All

photographs, negatives, etc will be returned to the owners.

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