Forty-Fifth Annual Conference

The 45th Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held on 18 October 2025 in the Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh. It would be helpful if attendees could notify Dr Leslie Dodd in advance.The agenda is 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

14:00 - Prof John Finlay (Glasgow), "A life in dispute: David Clyne SSC (1790-1833)"

14:45

14:45 - Dr Sarah Leith (St Andrews), "'Antique' Smith and Burns Chronicle Reports of Manuscript Forgery"


15:30

15:30 - Mr Huw Sherrard (Edinburgh), "Scotland's Law of Arms: the long twentieth century"

16:15

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