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This one-hour session is an opportunity for law students to learn about the Scottish Legal Aid Board, their Client Legal Services (CLS) directorate and what a traineeship at the Public Defence Solicitors Office (PDSO) is like. ​​
This free event is held fully online. Please register using the form below.​
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Agenda:
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Welcome and Introductions
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An Overview of CLS Directorate (Pauline Hamilton and Caitlin Paul)
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Life as a trainee at PDSO (Angela Clay)
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The application process at CLS Directorate (Pauline Hamilton)
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Any questions
Speakers:
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Caitlin Paul is currently on a 12 month secondment as Network Duty and Development Solicitor at the Civil Legal Assistance Office, one of the three branches of the Client Legal Services Directorate at the Scottish Legal Aid Board (“SLAB”). She joined SLAB in July 2021 as a Civil Casework Solicitor, working primarily in housing and homelessness law. Caitlin qualified as a Solicitor in August 2020 following a legal traineeship at Balfour & Manson LLP, then worked as a newly qualified Solicitor at Millard Law, a small high street legal aid firm practising mainly in family and child law. Caitlin completed her LLB Undergraduate degree and Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at Glasgow University.
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Angela Clay is a criminal defence solicitor with PDSO Dundee, servicing Dundee, Forfar and Perth Sheriff Courts. She is six months newly qualified after undertaking her traineeship with PDSO. Prior to joining PDSO, Angela worked in Fife and Edinburgh, primarily, as a conveyancing paralegal and thereafter dealing with wills,
trusts, executries and power of attorney.
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Pauline Hamilton graduated from Glasgow University in 1986 with an honours degree in law and qualified as a Scottish solicitor in 1990. In 1992, she also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales where she was in practice for a period of five years. Pauline has specialized in criminal work since 1992, with experience in The Crown Prosecution Service and COPFS. She joined PDSO Glasgow in 2004 and qualified as a Solicitor Advocate in 2010. Now, Pauline is the Legal Learning and Development Solicitor for the Client Legal Services Directorate at SLAB.​