ANNUAL DINNER 2024

A rousing send-off for the Deputy Keeper

An emotional evening on 10 November when retiring Deputy Keeper of the Signet, Mandy Laurie WS, received a rousing send off from over 200 guests at her last Annual Dinner in office. A sea of pink roses and foliage greeted guests entering an Upper Library bathed in pink light. Even the Garnkirk Florence Vase had dressed for the occasion in a fetching pyramid of dried flowers.

“All that is good about Scotland’s legal community”.  

To match the grandeur of the surroundings, guest speaker Lord Jonathan Sumption KC held the intense attention of the audience to make the case for lawyers to have broad minds rooted in broad education. Studying history and literature, he argued, multiplies and enriches experience and improves the quality of advice and judgement in lawyers and judges. It was truly an awe-inspiring speech: eloquent, elegant, analytical, and, above all, profound. You could have heard a pin drop.

“Stunning”.
“Mind-blowingly beautiful”.