UK government plans to address ‘legal but harmful’ online content threaten freedom of speech and would be ineffective, peers have warned. Instead, existing laws should be enforced properly and any serious harms not already illegal should be criminalised, according to a House of Lords Com
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Prosecutors have no licence to "police a free press in a free country", a group of former lawyers who have held high office claim. Writing in Scottish Legal News today, the group, which calls itself Quis? – Latin for 'who' – argues that the Crown Office abused the contempt of court mecha
Professor Philippe Sands QC will join Conor Gearty to discuss his life and career at a free online event early next month. The discussion with the award-winning author, academic and barrister is being hosted by The British Academy as part of its Leaders in SHAPE series.
The International Bar Association (IBA) will be hosting two events with a focus on Scotland tonight. From 6pm GMT, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, will be in conversation with Mark Ellis, IBA executive director. You can find out more and register here.
Benjamin Bestgen takes a further look at free speech this week, see last week's jurisprudential primer for part one. Open a newspaper or look through social media and you will find people expressing their upset about all kinds of real or perceived wrongs.
DLA Piper has advised long-standing client Greencoat UK Wind on the acquisition of the South Kyle wind farm in Scotland from developer Vattenfall for £320 million once the farm begins operating in Q1 2023. South Kyle is located 5km to the east of Dalmellington on the boundary of Dumfries &
Hundreds of textbooks have been made freely available online by Cambridge University Press (CUP) until the end of May this year.
Should period products be freely available by law across Scotland? That is the question being posed by Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee. The committee is considering a bill which would ensure everyone in Scotland who needs to use period products can obtain them free of cha
UK government officials have cast doubt on plans to abruptly end European free movement in the event of a no-deal Brexit. According to reports, Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to impose new border controls immediately after the UK leaves the EU if no agreement can be reached by the 31 October deadl
A council's decision to close a fund supporting the provision of free advice in relation to housing, financial inclusion and social welfare law in Glasgow has been condemned by a leading lawyer.
A free event looking at how the displaced Rohingya people might return to their ancestral homeland in the Arakan region in Myanmar will be held at Edinburgh Law School next month.
The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen has invited legal trainees in the city to attend a free buffet lunch in the Library at Concert Court next month. The trainee lunch on Tuesday 17 September 2019, at 1pm, is a chance to catch up with university friends and see the Society's facilities with no oblig
Legal Hackers Scotland have brought together all the main players for a unique debate on the Independent Review of the Regulation of Legal Services in Scotland. Presentations and debate will be provided by a distinguished panel of speakers: Esther Roberton (chair of the Review); Neil Stevenson (CEO
A new exhibition by National Records of Scotland (NRS) brings together records of the suffragettes and the Scottish justice system for the first time. Protests and arrests, hunger strikes and force-feeding are revealed in historical government, court and prison records, as well as notes from prison
The term "spouse" includes a spouse of the same sex for the purposes of European free movement, even in member states whose laws do not provide for same-sex marriage, according to Advocate General Melchior Wathelet. Although member states are free to authorise marriage between persons of the same se
