Macfadyen Lecture

This year's Macfadyen Lecture will be delivered by Lord Hodge who will discuss 'Developments in the Scots Law of Contract'. The lecture will will cover contractual interpretation and ask whether there are differences emerging between Scots law and English law in this field and whether that is a good

This year's Macfadyen Lecture is to be given by the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, The Honourable Mr Justice Adrian Saunders at the Royal Society of Edinburgh at 6:00pm on Thursday 27 March. His subject is 'The Caribbean Court of Justice at 20 Years'.

Judicial independence is undemocratic, yet it is essential to democracy’s proper functioning. How is judicial independence to be protected from powerful political and popular pressures on judges to rule this way or that when the judiciary has ‘neither force nor will, but merely judgment&

The President of the Supreme Court is to deliver a lecture in Edinburgh next month on the court's role as it celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Lady Hale will deliver the 2019 Macfadyen Lecture, answering the question 'What is the UK Supreme Cort For'?