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John Kerry is to speak at the Signet Library on 24 August. The event will launch the WS Society's annual joint series of ‘Scottish Global Dialogues’ with Beyond Borders, to feature guests of international standing, held each year during the Edinburgh Festivals.

A £1.8 million fund for children's education in Aberdeenshire and Moray is on the brink of “collapse” after the WS Society cut links to it over its connection to the Atlantic slave trade. Robert Pirrie, chief executive of the WS Society, confirmed that it would no longer be appoint

Charity law specialist Sophie Mills has joined the WS Society executive as a solicitor. The move reunites Ms Mills with the Society, where she completed part of her legal training before gaining further experience in commercial litigation and corporate transactional work.

Scot Dignan has become the first lawyer in the history of the WS Society to be admitted as a Writer to the Signet remotely. Mr Dignan, who is a legal inspector with HM Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland, prosecutor, PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde and a former Lord Hope Scho

Featured in the latest Signet magazine, celebrated South African lawyer and social justice campaigner Professor Thuli Madonsela is to be admitted as a fellow of the WS Society.

James Hamilton, writing for the WS Society, explores how enlightenment values helped Edinburgh defeat the twin scourges of typhoid and cholera. They didn’t speak of it, so we do not know what the builders of the Edinburgh New Town thought would have become of their city a century later. Abando