18/09/2015
9:00 am - 5:15 pm	Criminal Law Conference 2015
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Arrival and Registration
9:30 am - 9:40 am	Welcome and Introductions [More Info] Convener: Ian Cruickshank, Senior Partner , The Cruickshank Law Practice
9:40 am - 10:10 am	Post-corroboration Safeguards [More Info] Speaker: James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law, University of Glasgow
10:10 am - 10:40 am	Post-corroboration Safeguards [More Info] Speaker: Murray Macara QC, Beltrami & Co Ltd
10:40 am - 10:55 am	Q&A from audience
10:55 am - 11:10 am	Mid-Morning Break
11:10 am - 11:55 pm	Case Law Update [More Info] Speaker: Ximena Vengoechea, Black Chambers
12:40 pm - 1:20 pm	Networking Lunch
1:20 pm - 2:05 pm	Police Station Interviews [More Info] Speaker: Peter Lockhart, Lockharts Solicitors
2:05 pm - 2:55 pm	Please choose one session from the following: Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 [More Info] Speaker: Grazia Robertson, Director, L & G Robertson & Co
2:05 pm - 2:55 pm	Please choose one session from the following: Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Act 2015 [More Info] Speaker: Douglas Thomson, Solicitor Advocate, McArthur Stanton
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	Mid-Afternoon Break
2:55 pm - 3:30 pm	The role of an appropriate adult [More Info] Speaker: Seaneen Williamson, Policy & Development Officer, ARC Scotland Speaker: Gillian Mawdsley, Solicitor, Scottish Legal Aid Board
3:30 pm - 4:05 pm	Sheriff Appeal Court - Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 [More Info] Sheriff Principl Craig Scott
4:05 pm - 4:50 pm	Evidence and Procedure Review [More Info] Speaker: Lord Carloway, Lord Justice Clerk
4:50 pm - 5:00 pm	Final Comments and Close