FULL HOUSE FOR HISTORIC SPEECH BY LORD DOHERTY

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The Faculty had one of its busiest ever events this week for the visit of UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Doherty.

More than 100 guests heard the speech from Lord Doherty about the inner workings of the UK’s highest court of appeal.

He took time out from the Supreme Court’s first ever visit to Glasgow to speak to members and other invited guests.

Guests included Ruth Charteris, Solicitor General for Scotland, Lord Pentland, the Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland, and his predecessor, Lord Carloway.

Glasgow’s Lord Provost, Councillor Jacqueline McLaren, also attended.

Lord Doherty, one of two Scottish judges serving on the Supreme Court, delivered his speech - ‘A View from the Thames’ - for the Faculty’s biennial Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture.

Lord Rodger was one of the original 12 members of the UK Supreme Court on its inception in 2009.

Paying tribute, Lord Doherty said in his speech:

“I had the privilege of being Lord Rodger’s junior on several occasions in both civil and criminal cases. In 1990, when he was Solicitor General, he invited me to become a standing junior. I became Clerk of the Faculty the same year, and I benefited from Lord Rodger’s advice.”

Lord Doherty spoke for around an hour, followed by a Q&A, on his experience of sitting on the bench since being elected to the Court earlier this year.

Faculty Dean John Bett presented Lord Doherty with a specially engraved Quaich to mark his speech at the Faculty.