• 2012 –  At the Settlement meeting of the Convener Court on 24th October, Mr Allan Collie’s resignation was formally intimated and took effect.  Deacon Convener Parkinson thereafter proposed Mr Craig Pike, the motion being seconded and unanimously agreed, Mr Pike was appointed Joint Trade Clerk and Assessor with immediate effect. The Deacon Convener then installed Mr Pike by assisting him with his legal gown and pinning his medal of office thereon. Mr Pike thereafter continued with the minutes of the meeting.  He is the most recent in an uninterrupted line of seven Partners from the same legal firm in Aberdeen to have held that post.