With booming oil prices, the golf course inquiry and Terra Firma's Aberdeen launch, the Granite City has rightly enjoyed pride of place in Scotlands news stories. 

Terra Firma was delighted to inaugurate its series of seminars in the splendid library of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen on 26th June. We were pleased to maintain contact not only with this august institution, but also its new Executive Secretary and Librarian Maria Robertson – a former senior librarian and longstanding friend of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. 

All three seminars were well-attended and prompted much discussion, particularly the talk on planning law, the timeliness of which could hardly have been bettered (or, dare one say it, trumped). 

After the legal soliloquies, it was across the road to The Foyer at MHT for refreshments.  What, if anything, actors and Advocates have in common is always something of a moot point.  So far as 26th June was concerned, there was no drama to report, only good humour and great potential for developing strong working relationships in the future.