At 6.15pm on Friday 12th June 2009, Lord Hope of Craighead delivered a public lecture in honour of Sir Gerald in the Playfair Library of Old College. Lord Hope has kindly provided the following synopsis of his lecture (a copy of a flyer advertising the lecture is available here):

Crumbs from Under the Master's Table: Some Thoughts on Distress

"Sexual abusers seek out their victims in private: a girl in a tent, a woman alone late at night with a taxi-driver. There is distress, but there are no eyewitnesses and there is no physical injury. The lecturer recalls his dialogue with Sir Gerald through the pages of the Scottish Criminal Case Reports as to how the Scots law should deal with the problem of corroborating the victim's evidence of what was done to her."

You can listen to a recording of the lecture on the Law School's "Blogs and Podcasts" page.