The Paisley Snail International Conference.

University of the West of Scotland, Renfrewshire Law Centre, the Law society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates, will host the Major International Conference of the decade in Paisley, the locus deliciti, to examine, discuss and celebrate eighty years of the law of tort, negligence and delict.

Registration and champagne reception will take place on Thursday 24 May 2012 at UWS Paisley Campus. The conferece will take place on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May, marking the exact 80th anniversary of Lord Atkin's judgement, in Brough Hall, Paisley Campus, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA12HB

For more information visit www.uws.ac.uk/thepaisleysnail

CPD: Attendance at the whole conference is worth 11.5 hours CPD. Attendance on the Friday only is worth 5.5 hours and Saturday only is worth 6 hours.

Convenor: The Hon Lord Kinclaven (Alexander F. Wylie), Court of Session

Speakers:

The Right Honorable Lord Hamilton, Lord President and Lord Justice General

The Hon Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia

Martin R Taylor QC, hunter Litigation Chambers, Vancouver, Canada

Professor Allan Hutchison, Osgoode Hall Law School, York Univeristy, Canada

Professor Joe Thomson, erstwhile Regius Professor, Glasgow University, Scotland