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Strengthening accountability for failures to protect people’s rights was a key theme of the work of the Scottish Human Rights Commission this year. In its annual report, the commission referred to the use of its legal powers to intervene in civil litigation for the first time in the Serco lock
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The Scottish team at Clyde & Co has raised over £8,000 for local charity Cash for Kids as part of Radio Forth's 5k-a-day challenge. The Boogie 5k-a-day Challenge encouraged participants to run, walk or cycle five kilometres per day for the entire month while raising sponsorship funds from
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To mark Black History Month, SLN is dedicating its ‘Our Legal Heritage’ feature to Scotland’s black history. As a child he was fed from a trough along with the other enslaved children on the plantation and regularly whipped, but Frederick Douglass would grow to become one of the mo
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Miners convicted of certain offences relating to the strike in 1984-85 will be pardoned, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. John Scott QC’s independent review of the impact of policing on communities during the strike recommends that, subject to establishing suitable criteria, the S
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A lifetime achievement award is to be presented to Ian Forrester QC, the former judge of the General Court of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Mr Forrester will be honoured at the 2020 Scottish Legal Awards on Wednesday, 4 November, which will be broadcast live online.
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Only a handful of British families are now detained in north east Syria, a new report shows, "undermining" the UK government’s position that these families cannot be brought back to the UK. Government sources implied last year that over 300 British nationals might still be imprisoned in north
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Dr Thomas Muinzer details the work of the Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network this year. Since its inaugural meeting at the Legal Services Agency, Glasgow, on January 20 at the beginning of this year, the Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network (SCELN) has been meeting on a regular basis, enga
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CMS Scotland has announced it will award scholarships to support three aspiring law students. As part of an annual UK-wide initiative, the firm awards £2,500 each year to a high-performing Scottish state school pupil from an economically disadvantaged background while they are completing their
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The actions of the UK government during the coronavirus emergency this year bear the hallmarks of authoritarianism, Lord Sumption has warned. The former Supreme Court justice noted that authoritarian government promotes "loyalty at the expense of wisdom and flattery at the expense of objective advic
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Venues for additional remote jury centres to serve the Sheriffdoms of Glasgow and Strathkelvin and Lothian and Borders have been confirmed. For trials running in Glasgow Sheriff Court, six juries will be based remotely in Glasgow Quay. For trials running initially in Edinburgh Sheriff Court and then
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One of the most highly-rated experts in public and parliamentary law has joined Burness Paull. Fiona Killen, who was previously with Anderson Strathern, brings experience of working directly within Parliament, public sector, higher education and professional bodies and advising a wide range of
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Criminal defence work may be a tough gig, but for an aspiring writer of crime fiction it has one key draw: it throws up a huge amount of material to work from. Indeed, when Russel & Aitken partner William McIntyre decided to turn his hand to novel writing a little over a decade ago he found he h
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