Book your ticket now for the Tumbling Lassie Ball!

The Ball, preceded by a free seminar, will return for its second year on Saturday 28 January. Last year’s fantastic event raised more than £14,000 for Trafficking Awareness Raising Alliance (TARA) and International Justice Mission (IJM).

And this year’s Ball promises to be just as memorable, with glittering prizes on offer for a silent auction including, among others, signed works by Alexander McCall Smith (donated by the author), a private tour of the Scottish Parliament with lunch, for two (Gordon Lindhurst MSP), a private tour of the Palace of Westminster with lunch, for two (Joanna Cherry QC MP) and a rugby ball signed by members of the Scotland squad (Scottish Rugby Union).

“But we have no slaves in Scotland…” recalls Alan McLean QC, who wrote about the importance of the Tumbling Lassie case of 1687 (Reid v Scot of Harden) in last year’s Scottish Legal News Annual Review, a decision made decades before the Scots-born Lord Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, “the greatest judge in English history”, made his famous decision in Sommersett (1772).

The seminar (2.5hrs CPD), in the Faculty of Advocates’ Mackenzie Building at 9:30am on 28 January, will feature guest speakers Alison Di Rollo QC, Solicitor General for Scotland, and Parosha Chandran, a human rights barrister and expert on human trafficking.

Attendance is free but donations will be taken for the charities.

The Ball is in St Paul’s and St George’s Church, York Place, Edinburgh. A three-course dinner is included in the price of £65 per ticket.

Both events are supported by the Faculty, and full details can be found at http://www.tumblinglassie.com/