Professor James Hathaway of the University of Melbourne Law School, one of the world's on the law affecting refugees is to speak at a major conference in Glasgow organised by the Murray Stable at the Faculty of Advocates.

Hathaway will present a seminar on The Law of Refugee Status on October 5, arranged also with Glasgow Immigration Practitioners' Group, the Scottish Refugee Counsel and Glasgow University Law School.

The event will be  held at the Royal Faculty of Procurators building, and wil be chaired by Mungo Deans.

Joe Bryce, an immigration law specialist with the Murray Stable, described Professor Hathaway as a dazzling speaker and said that the Professor enjoyed "quasi-divine status" with asylum lawyers. To be able to bring him to Glasgow was "an enormous coup" for all involved in the organisation, he said.