Events

29 Sep 2016

5:00pm-6:00pm

Lecture Theatre 7, 1/F., Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC

Dame Elish Angiolini joined the Procurator Fiscal Service and served as a Procurator-Depute in Airdrie (1984–92). She was seconded to the Crown Office in Edinburgh before being appointed Senior Depute Procurator Fiscal, then Assistant Procurator Fiscal at Glasgow (1995–97). She returned to the Crown Office as Head of Policy. She then served as Regional Procurator Fiscal for Grampian, the Highland and Islands, based in Aberdeen (2000–01). Appointed the first female Solicitor General for Scotland in 2001, she was also the first Procurator Fiscal and the first solicitor (as against advocate) to hold the post. In 2006, she was appointed Lord Advocate, the head of Scotland’s prosecution service, the first woman in the 500-year history of that post. She served in this role until 2011. Dame Elish became Principal of St. Hugh’s College of the University of Oxford in 2012. She was listed as one of Scotland’s most powerful women in 2004 and made a DBE in 2011. Dame Elish was appointed Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2015. In September 2016, CUHK is honoured to invite Dame Elish to Hong Kong to present a distinguished lecture under the Mok Hing Yiu Visiting Professorship Scheme supported by Mok Hing Yiu Charitable Foundation.

Please register online at http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/mhyvppl on or before 26 September 2016.

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