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The article offers information on several conferences including those in memory of Justice Alan Rodger to be held from September 7-8, 2012, the 31st Annual Conference of the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society to be held form December 10-12, 2012 and 21st British Legal History Conference to be held from July10-13, 2013.

The article reports on the 2017 conference of the Scottish Legal History Group on October 7, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. It presents summaries of the papers offered at the meeting, including ones on punishment of rebellion in Scotland, manuscript transmission of "Regiam Majestatem," and King Charles !'s reform of church finance in Scotland.

The article discusses the 38th annual conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Scottish Legal History Group which was held on October 6, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it mentions the next conference on October 5, 2019. Abstracts are provided for papers such as "Supplications to the Papacy in Late Medieval Scotland" by Dr. Alan MacQuarrie and "Continuity and Change: the Highland Estate and the Regality Court of Grant" by Charles Fletcher which were presented at the 2018 event.

The article offers information on papers that were delivered at the annual conference of the Scottish Legal History Group on October 2, 2010 in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, Scotland by historians such as Gero Dolezalek, Andrew Simpson, and Rab Houston. Topics discussed include the office of coroner in Scotland, medieval law in Scotland, and common law.

The article discusses the thirty-fifth annual conference and annual general meeting (AGM) of the Scottish Legal History Group (SLHG) which was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 3, 2015, and it provides abstracts of several papers by authors such as Dauvit Broun, Joanna Tucker, and Dr. Jenny Wormald which were presented at the event. According to the article, an additional SLHG conference will be held on October 1, 2016. Scottish judicial records and declaratory power are assessed.

Information about several papers at the 28th annual conference sponsored by the Legal Scottish History Group on October 4, 2008 at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, Scotland on matters regarding the law reports is presented. Topics include the long-term project for publication of Sinclair's "Practicks," the earliest Scottish form of law reports, the parliamentary process in the reign of James VI and a re-analysis of the "duel under the law of Clann Duib."

The article presents information on the thirty-fourth annual conference and annual general meeting of the Scottish Legal History Group which was held on October 4, 2014 at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it also provides several abstracts of papers which were delivered at the event. Professor John Finlay's report entitled "Consulting Counsel in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" is mentioned, along with "Walter Scott and Scottish Judicature Reform 1806-10" by Dr. Kathryn Chittick.

Abstracts of papers delivered at the annual conference of the organization the Scottish Legal History Group on October 5, 2013, in Edinburgh, Scotland, are presented.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium organized by professor Andrew Lewis at the City University in London, England is presented. The symposium aims to present some of the findings of professor Marin Dockray's research on the Zong case, and it explores the possibility of promoting publication of the materials which he had discovered.