CPD 1.5 hours

PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge

OBJECTIVES

A relatively niche area of practice, yet nonetheless of potential importance for any general or family law practitioner, and of huge significance to any parties affected by the removal of a child of theirs from the UK absent their consent.

This Zoom webinar shall look at:

• Hague Convention
• principles
• procedure
• case law

DELEGATES

This Zoom webinar will be interest to law students, trainees and solicitors.

SPEAKER

Jon Kiddie, Advocate, Terra Firma Chambers. Jon called to the Bar in 2020 following almost two decades in private practice, latterly as a solicitor advocate.

Much of his solicitor career he spent in law centres, including as Head of Civil Litigation at Legal Services Agency in Glasgow, and as Principal Solicitor at Renfrewshire Law Centre, where he served for eleven years, latterly as a solicitor advocate. His law centre work consisted principally of housing law, landlord/tenant rights, disrepair reparation, mortgage enforcement, employment tribunals and Judicial Review.

He has spoken at numerous conferences and training events, taught at the University of the West of Scotland, taken part in consultations on legislative reform, and had several articles and book reviews published, including in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. He has also served as an ad hoc reporter to the Law Society of Scotland. See the link below to view Jon's biography.

Jon Kiddie Biography