A new project will fill an access-to-justice gap and educate the public on the law while giving students hands-on legal experience in order to help boost their employability prospects. The Tayside and Perthshire Law Project (Tayper) is a pro bono organisation due to launch later this year that will
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The Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland is hosting a virtual meeting of the Scottish Public Information Forum (SPIF), focusing on access to information during the COVID-19 crisis. The event will take place virtually on Thursday 24 September 2020 between 14:00 and 15:30.
Free speech campaigners have responded to government assurances that contentious hate crime legislation will be amended and also urged MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee to see problem provisions scrapped. Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the government would “work tirelessly”
Morton Fraser and Dickson Minto have committed to using the Law Society of Scotland's contextualised recruitment system to increase workplace diversity and social mobility. Following a successful pilot using the system, which was created by the Law Society in partnership with diversity recruitment s
The Scottish government has said it is "impossible" to recommend that the Scottish Parliament gives consent to the UK government's Internal Market Bill. The bill engages the Sewel Convention and therefore requires the consent of Holyrood.
Holyrood's Justice Committee has announced its timetable for parliamentary scrutiny of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. The committee intends to start hearing oral evidence from witnesses in late October, with a view to completing its stage 1 report by 18 December 2020.
The future of Scotland's oldest law centre hangs in the balance following a provisional decision to refuse it funding.
Bill Meldrum presents the five key principles that should focus landlords' minds around how they interact with commercial tenants. The UK’s commercial property sector faces its own set of challenges due to the uncertainty that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to our world.
A young woman branded "naïve" for aspiring to a career in law, but who overcame every obstacle in her path to realise her dream, is now lending a helping hand to those following in her footsteps with the launch of online resource Legable. Lauren Bowie, 22, from Ayr in South Ayrshire, gradu
The UK government has announced that it will be introducing a new "world-leading" law to clean up the UK's supply chains and protect rainforests from illegal deforestation. The proposed legislation would prohibit larger UK businesses from using products grown on land that was deforested illegally.
In 1884, a lamb skipped its way into Scottish legal history after it entered unfriendly territory. Winans v Macrae [1885] 22 SLR 692 is a leading case on the issue of trespass by animals and affirmed the requirement for actual material damage for a successful interdict claim.
Arnot Manderson new call Fergus Whyte, who formerly practised at the New Zealand bar, examines a recent High Court decision on the lawfulness of the country's COVID-19 lockdown measures, which saw the Bill of Rights Act 1688 invoked. On 19 August 2020, the New Zealand High Court issu
Arnot Manderson new call Fergus Whyte, who formerly practised at the New Zealand bar, examines a recent High Court decision on the lawfulness of the country's COVID-19 lockdown measures, which saw the Bill of Rights Act 1688 invoked. On 19 August 2020, the New Zealand High Court issu
Digby Brown took part in the first video conference proof at the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court heard last week. The evidential hearing was the first of its kind at ASPIC and the first proof to be heard in more than four months. The proof centred around a factual dispute on the
Judgment in a tax case will be handed down by the Supreme Court next Wednesday via video link. Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Respondent) v Parry and others (Appellants) is principally about whether the pension scheme transfer by the late Mrs Rachel Staveley, an
