At the society’s annual general meeting Martin Ewan of Pinsent Masons passed the presidency on to Mr MacDonald, a partner at Brodies while Duncan Love of J&G Collies and Martin Sinclair of Mackinnons became vice presidents.

The society draws its membership from the legal profession in Aberdeen and the north east.

Its origins can be traced back to the sixteenth century and it continues to play an important part in the life of the legal profession in the north east of Scotland.