Mr Hardie extended the Gaelic welcome failte when 15 advocates were
admitted to the Scottish Bar.
They included the first fluent native Gaelic speaker to the Bar for
about a century. Mr Roderick John MacLeod, a native of Skye, was a
former presenter of the BBC Gaelic current affairs television programme
Prosbaig. He has practised as a solicitor in Edinburgh since 1980.
Mr Hardie also gave a greeting in Italian to two new advocates of
Italian extraction, Mr Francesco Lorenzo Pieri and Mr Pino Ernesto Gino
Di Emidio, both law graduates of Glasgow.
There are now more than 360 advocates at the Bar.
The new advocates are: Miss Dorothy Bain; Jonathan Brodie; Pino
Emidio; Neil Kinnear; Jonathan Lake; Iain Maclean; Murdo Angus MacLeod;
Roderick John MacLeod; Francesco Pieri; Mrs Catherine Phillips; Eric
Robertson; Jane Patrick, Leonard Wallace; Lesley-Anne Williamson; Sarah
Wolffe.
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