CPD for in-house lawyers
The ILG annually runs a series of seminars, for in-house
members, which are provided free of charge.
All ILG events are listed in the Events section of this website marked as
an ILG event.
These seminars are hosted at the Society's offices in Edinburgh,
usually in the evenings. From there, video conferencing is
available and we regularly link to a number of sites across
Scotland (most commonly Aberdeen, Fort William, Glasgow,
Inverness, Isle of Skye, Lerwick, Moray, Motherwell, Scottish
Borders & Stornoway). Not only does this cut down on
travel time and cost for our members, but it also allows networking
to take place on a local level by coming together at the video
conferencing site. Details of venues available are linked to
each event. If you wish to add a location to the list, please email us or call us on 0131
476 8207 and we'll try and arrange that with you.
The programme aims to offer something for everyone and a mix of
black letter law, updates and management or 'soft skills' subjects;
last season we saw well over 1000 delegates attend courses on a
range of topics including consumer credit, environmental risk,
information management, planning, public law, vulnerable witnesses
and many more.
Events are advertised by a mailing direct to all in house
members every few weeks. If you do not receive this already
please email us or call us
on 0131 476 8207 and we can discuss how to make sure you do
get your copy.
We're always looking for ideas for events, so if there are
topics you don't think are covered or you would especially like to
see then please do get in touch: you can email us or call us on 0131
476 8207. We're also able to offer larger in-house employers
speakers for inhouse CPD, for example, sending a solicitor from our
own in-house legal team (the Professional Practice Team) to provide
a lunchtime talk on professional privilege and issues around
confidentiality. Please do contact one of our team for more
information by using the details above.
Two key events are our Annual Symposium & AGM and
'The 21st Century Bar', a full day conference which is usually held
at the beginning of December each year as a joint event with The
Faculty of Advocates. We'd encourage members to look out for
these, and to consider supporting them as well as hoping you gain
valuable new knowledge, skills and contacts from attending.
We also try to ensure that, where possible, all members can have
access to notes and materials from events they were perhaps unable
to attend. Below are links to what is currently available,
and we hope to build this resource over time.
Course materials
Where possible, we work with the speaker on the ILG programme of
events to get slides and full-text copies of talks so that those
unable to attend can access this information. Links are provided
below for events from this years programme. Please do take care
using these materials as although we try to ensure they are
accurate, there will frequently have been changes or new case law
since the delivery of the course.
Corporate Law Update - Thursday 3 May 2012
Alasdair Wood & Danielle Kidd, DLA Piper
Slides
The Bribery Act - Thursday 19 April 2012
Stacey Keen, Pinsent Masons
Slides
Outsourcing - Tuesday 20 March 2012
John McKinlay, DLA Piper
Slides
Recent Developments in Data Protection - Thursday 15 March
2012
Kathryn Wynn, Pinsent Masons
Slides
Text
Health & Safety - Thursday 8 March 2012
Diana Turner, Burness
Slides
Top tips from the bench - Thursday 1 March 2012
Sheriff Frank Crowe
Text
Contractual Pitfalls - Thursday 16 February
2012
Colin Hulme, Burness
Slides
Full
Text
A Pensions Update - Tuesday 7 February
2012
Louisa Knox & Richard Jones, Shepherd &
Wedderburn
Slides
Full
Text
Employment Update - Thursday 2 february
2012
Kirsty Ayre, Pinsent Masons
Slides
Renewables in Scotland - Thursday 24 November
2011
Patricia Hawthorn, Shepherd & Wedderburn
Slides
Full Text
The Public Sector Equality Duty - Tuesday
15 November 2011
Lynn Welsh, Equality & Human Rights Commission
Slides
Freedom of Information - Thursday 10 November
2011
Margaret Keyse, Scottish Information Commissioner
Slides
Full text of Presentation
Human Rights & the Supreme Court - Tuesday 8 November
2011
John Scott QC
Full text of
presentation
Tackling IP Issues in the Sports Arena -
Thursday 6 October 2011
Roisin Higgins, Axiom Advocates
Slides
Full text of Presentation
Licensing - Thursday 3rd February 2011
Alex Buchan, Brodies LLP
Slides
Full text
of presentation
Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 and other child care
issues - 18th November 2010
Lexy Plumtree, British Association for Adoption & Fostering
Scotland
Slides
Full
text of presentation
Conveyancing - Letters of Obligation and
Information of Lease Requirements by Charities - 30th September
2010
Lionel Most, Burness LLP
Slides
Full text of
presentation