§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland on what occasions within the last 10 years Scottish qualified lawyers have represented and participated, respectively, on behalf of the United Kingdom in official international conferences.
§ Mr. RossScottish lawyers have attended the following conferences as U.K. delegates:
1960:
United Nations Seminar on the Protection of Human Rights in Criminal procedure.
1964:
- Diplomatic Conference on the Unification of Law governing the International Sale of Goods.
- Third Conference of European Ministers of Justice.
- Tenth Session of The Hague Conference on Private International Law.
1965:
First Meeting of The Hague Conference on Private International Law's Special Commission on Divorce, Separation and Nullity of Marriage.
1966:
- Extraordinary Session of The Hague Conference on Private International Law for the purpose of completing the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters.
- Fourth Conference of European Ministers of Justice.
- Council of Europe: the European Committee on Legal Co-operation's Sub-Committee on Fundamental Legal Concepts, on the concept of time-limit.
- Special Session of The Hague Conference on Private International Law to consider the Protocol to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Exorbitant Jurisdictions).
- Commonwealth Law Ministers' Conference.
- Fourth Meeting of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission.
1967:
- Council of Europe: the European Committee on Legal Co-operation's Sub-Committee on Fundamental Legal Concepts, on the concept of residence and domicile.
- Second Meeting of The Hague Conference on Private International Law's Special Commission on Divorce.
- Council of Europe: Committee of Experts for the Standardisation of the Concept of "Time-Limit".