John Hastie Scholarships
Two scholarships, to the value of £2,000 and £1,000 respectively, are awarded annually to students who in the opinion of Edinburgh Law School are the most distinguished graduates of the academic year of award, taking into account the degree exams that they have passed in:
- Legal Reason and Legal System, Delict and Contract and Unjustified Enrichment (ordinary level)
- Property Law and Family law (ordinary level)
- Any two of Public Law of the UK and Scotland, Commercial Law, Evidence and Criminal Law (ordinary level)
The degree exams should have been taken in consecutive years. A condition of the Scholarship is that students have to provide a written undertaking that they will qualify as a solicitor in Scotland.
| Year | Prize winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Killian H Dockrell (First) and Lauren Ann Elisabeth Donaldson (Second) |
| 2021 | Francis Dominic Gill (First) and Ross Luke MacBrien Ward (Second) |
| 2020 | George Geddes (First) and George Bruce (Second) |
| 2019 | Anna Steen (First) and April Sloan (Second) |
| 2018 | Laura McArdle (First) and Gregor Murphy (Second) |
| 2017 | Alec Fair (First) and Kirsty Mitchell (Second) |
| 2016 | Isla Burns (First) and James Bailey (Second) |
| 2015 | Luke Tait (First) and Courtney Lilly (Second) |
| 2014 | Peter Candy (First) and Amy Pairman (Second) |
| 2013 | Julia Barette (First) and Mara Schmueckle (Second) |
| 2012 | Tim Haddow (First) and Jack Kerr (Second) |
| 2011 | Victoria Smith (First) and Richard Faichney (Second) |
| 2010 | Kirsty Miguda (First) and Alisdair Macpherson (Second) |
| 2009 | Adelle Seaton (First) and Gemma Grant and Joanna Mithen (Second) |
| 2008 | Verity Robson (First) and Gillian Dabbs (Second) |
| 2007 | Adam McKinlay (First) and Lynsey Hutchison (Second) |
| 2006 | Rhona Keith (First) and Catriona Stirling (Second) |