Social events
Regional Lunches
Portsmouth Regional Lunch -12 June 2013
1200 - 1430
Marriott Hotel, North Harbour, Portsmouth
Cost for two course meal and coffee £15.00
Southampton Regional Lunch -26 June 2013
1200 - 1430
Bowlers Restaurant, Golf Course Road, Southampton
Cost for two course meal and coffee £15.00
Basingstoke Regional Lunch -18 September2013
1200 - 1430
The Red Lion Hotel, Basingstoke
Cost for two course meal and coffee £15.00
Farnborough Regional Lunch -2 October 2013
1200 - 1430
Cost for two course meal and coffee £15.00
Past Social Events
New Forest Regional Lunch -2 May 2013
The New Forest Lunch was held at White Buck Inn, Burley, New Forest and was enjoyed by all.
Annual Charity Quiz Night - 25 April 2013
The Annual Quiz in aid of Law Care was a successful evening. There were 19 teams competing against their colleagues and fellow solicitors.
All enjoyed the buffet supper at the Novotel and enjoyed the evening. It is hoped that an Interprofessional Quiz evening will be organised in 2014.
Southampton Daily Echo - 13 February 2013
We had a full turnout to the Southampton Daily Echo on 13 February. Those who attended enjoyed the presentation on the history of the Southern Daily Echo given by the Editor Mr Ian Murray and the very interesting guided tour around the offices and print works.
We are hoping to organise something similar in the Portsmouth area.
New Forest Regional Lunch - 14 February 2013
The Hampshire Law Society New Forest Section met for their quarterly lunch at the White Buck Inn in Burley on Valentines Day. The White Buck Inn is a lovely New Forest country pub. We choose to meet there because it is the best compromise location for our members: close to the geographical centre of the New Forest. My office is only 4 miles away, but other members travel from as far as Fordingbridge in one direction or Fawley in the other.
We always choose Wednesday or Thursday for our lunches so that our conveyancers can still be in their offices for Friday completions. Nevertheless participants need to have a fairly easy relaxed day in the office given that it is unlikely to be possible to fit in a lunch at the White Buck Inn and return to the office within less than two hours.
We have a very informal setting. Participants (who do not have to be members of Hampshire Law Society) simply turn up, buy their own food and drink and sit with the other members at one long table in that part of the bar named “the gunroom”.
On the last occasion we had a select group of solicitors: the high quality of the conversation made up for the lack of numbers attending. Our President, Roderick Hursthouse, and two Committee members, Antony Harris and Simon Whipple attended. We spent an hour moaning about the usual topics – the SRA, the LSC, and the quality of the beer, and then went back to our offices duly unburdened.
The next lunch will take place in May at a date to be decided.
Simon Whipple
Andover Regional Lunch - 28 February 2013
The Andover Regional Lunch was held at the Hampshire Golf Club, Andover , when 16 solicitors attended, including our President, who started the lunch by welcoming those present and explaining the purpose of these lunches, ie for local solicitors to meet socially in a relaxed and informal environment, and meet representatives of HILS.
Mike Russell-Smith gave a short address after the lunch, startling some by quoting the opening lines from “Horatius on the Bridge”, featuring one Lars Porcena of Clusium, and recalling that the last meeting of Andover solicitors, which used to take place annually, took place in about 1983, chaired, by custom and tradition, by the late David Bucknill of Barker Son and Isherwood, who sadly died some two or three years ago.
All seemed agreed that they had enjoyed the lunch, and that the Conservatory of the Golf Club had worked well as a venue, with a good meal which was reasonably priced.
Petersfield Regional Lunch -19 March 2013
16 members attended the Petersfield Lunch at The Red Lion on 19 March. Those who attended had an excellent networking lunch. Service and food at The Red Lion was very good and enjoyed by all.
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