The Scottish Council of Law Reporting was privileged that the late Rt Hon. Lord Macfadyen served as a member for many years until his untimely death in 2008.
The Council has established a series of lectures in his memory which it published on this website. Sir David Edward, who gave the first such lecture in March 2010, began his talk with a personal reminiscence of Donald Macfadyen.
Developments in the Scots Law of Contract (2026)
The Rt Hon Lord Hodge
Twenty Years of The Caribbean Court of Justice (2025)
The Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders
Evaluating the Expert Witness in the Modern Legal Landscape (2024)
Dame Siobhan Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
Human Dignity: A Purpose in Perpetuity (2023)
Justice Sikri, Singapore International Commercial Court, former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Law and Commerce (2022)
Lord Reed of Allermuir, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law (2021)
Nathan L. Hecht, Chief Justice, The Supreme Court of Texas
Climate Change and the Convention (2020)
Tim Eicke QC, Judge, European Court of Human Rights
What is the United Kingdom Supreme Court For? (2019)
The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
Brexit: A Judicial View (2018)
Judge Ian Forrester
Terrorism and the Rule of Law (2017)
Sir Anthony Campbell PC
Making Rights Real: the developing role of human rights in the exercise of public lawdiscretion (2016)
The Hon. Dame Lowell Goddard DNZM
Maintaining Public Confidence in the Courts in the 21st Century (2015)
The Rt Hon. Beverley McLachlin PC
The legal landscape before the Paisley snail: What an analysis of prior Scots law might have revealed (2013)
The Rt Hon. Lord Hamilton
The Role and Conduct of Public Inquiries (2012)
The Rt Hon. Lord Saville of Newdigate PC, QC
The Challenges of Scientific Evidence (2011)
The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell
What are Judges for? (2010)
Sir David Edward
