42nd Annual Conference "The impact of Europe on Criminal Justice in Scotland"
"The impact of Europe on Criminal Justice in Scotland" 18th and 19th November 2011 Dunblane Hydro Hotel
Speakers:
- Margaret Smith, Criminal Justice Authorities (CJAs) National Co-ordinator and colleague.
- Former SASO Chair (now Honorary Vice President) Professor Alec Spencer
- Lord Brodie QC
- Professor Estella Baker
- Olivier Tell, Head of Procedural Criminal Law, DG Justice, European Commission
- Carole Wilkinson, Chair, Scottish Children's Reporter Administration
- Lord Hope of Craighead
- John Scott QC
- Professor Sonja Snacken, Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and Ghent University
- Professor Tony Kelly, solicitor and visiting professor in Human Rights, University of Strathclyde
- Closing address by Kenny MacAskill MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice.
Panel discussion Rona Sweeney, Director of Prisons, SPS, Ruth McQuaid, Area Procurator Fiscal for Dumfries and Galloway, COPFS, Chief Supt. Paul Main, ACPOS Solicitor Access Implementation Team, Professor Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow, discuss the changes, accommodations and implications of the ECHR (and the UK Supreme Court) on criminal justice agencies in Scotland.

In November 2011, a group of postgraduate students from the MRes Criminology, the MSC Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the MSc Transnational Crime, Justice and Security programmes at the University of Glasgow had the opportunity to attend the annual Scottish Association for the Study of Offending (SASO) Conference held in Dunblane, Scotland and their report is also attached.