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Benjamin Bestgen turns his eye to the legalities of torture this week. See last week's jurisprudential primer here. Torture is a disturbingly common feature in our entertainment. In medieval or horror stories but also war and crime movies, books or TV series, the bad guys routinely torture innocents

BTO's Laura Salmond has been accredited as an employment law specialist by the Law Society of Scotland. Ms Salmond joins fellow partners Caroline Carr and Jacqueline McCluskey who have held the same accreditation for 20 and 10 years respectively.

The average volume of properties advertised on the market has fallen by nearly 22 per cent since the November peak according to property firm Apropos. The firm has analysed data which reveals that the average number of properties advertised has fallen by 21.9 per cent across the largest 20 cities in

Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law will provoke radical change and challenge those in power, Scotland's Children's Commissioner has told Glasgow Caledonian University's inaugural Law and The Common Good Lecture. Speaking on the eve of today's Scottish Parliamen

DWF has advised Aliter Capital-backed Sponge, a digital learning provider, on the acquisition of Idox Compliance from its parent company Idox plc. Sponge offers training solutions ranging from risk and compliance to people development and skills enhancement. It is backed by Aliter Capital LLP, a spe

Lord Neuberger has agreed to remain a judge of Hong Kong's top court for another three years, The Times reports. The former Supreme Court president's decision comes amid calls for the judges to step down over Beijing's attacks on democracy in the territory.

The Scottish government is consulting on the detail of plans to pardon miners convicted of certain offences during the 1984-85 strike. An independent review into the impact of policing on communities during the strike, led by John Scott QC, recommended that the Scottish government should introduce l

Plans to incorporate human rights treaties into Scots law have been announced by Equalities Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville. Subject to the outcome of May's Holyrood election, a new Human Rights Bill will incorporate four United Nations human rights treaties into Scots law, including legislat

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the passing of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act at Holyrood. The legislation creates a new independent body, Redress Scotland, to administer a scheme making financial payments to survivors of historical child

Black Chambers have welcomed Kenneth Cloggie to the stable. Mr Cloggie called to the bar last year, having previously practised as a solicitor advocate and as a partner in his own firm. 

From May the majority of domestic abuse summary trials in Aberdeen Sheriff Court will be conducted virtually, with only the accused person and their solicitor having to be present in the court premises, Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle has announced. This follows a pilot project which was conducted last

Aberdein Considine has appointed senior finance specialist Stuart Hunter. Mr Hunter has joined the firm as its director with responsibility for training and competency following senior roles with a number of major financial institutions including CYBG (now Virgin Money), Prudential Financial Pl

Thorntons has taken on 13 new trainees. Three of the new recruits started their traineeship in September but, this month, 10 others have joined them. All 13 will undertake a two-year traineeship across the firm’s network of offices and will develop their skills and knowledge working across a v

Details of a proposed bill on housing will be published next week as part of a new 20-year route map for housing in the coming decades. Housing to 2040 – Scotland’s first long-term housing plan – aims to set the path for how homes and communities should look and feel in 2040.&

It is usually (but not always) a truism in the legal profession that what happens in London will eventually happen in Edinburgh. The most recent example of this is in relation to the way in which lawyers north of the border are entitled to charge for their work. For some time now, English lawyers ha