The Gazette 1991

JULY/AUGUST 1991

GAZETTE

Younger Members News Scotland the brave

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.

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,

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.

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 a footprint or a 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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