Sexual orientation discrimination cases have increased 165 per cent since 2015, according to new data from compliance training specialist DeltaNet International and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The study analysed over 120,000 discrimination cases that went to employment tribunals and included case
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The UK government is being sued over its failure to disclose details of over £3 billion worth of Covid-19 contracts that it has awarded to private companies. Three MPs and the Good Law Project are seeking judicial review of the government's failure to disclose the information, arguing it is br
MacRoberts has promoted property lawyer Kyle Moir to the partnership and has also appointed private client specialist Chris Gardiner. Mr Moir is a highly experienced and well regarded real estate lawyer. He deals with all manner of property work including development site acquisition and disposal, f
Graeme MacLeod comments on a recent Inner House judgment in which police officers in a WhatsApp group lost an appeal against a decision to investigate them. The case of BC v the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland was pursued by a group of 10 Scottish police officers, all of whom were
Police and courts will gain powers to remove suspected abusers from victims’ homes and ban them from re‑entering under new legislation published today. The Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill, if passed by Parliament, will also allow social landlords to end or transfer a tenancy of a
Ian Beattie, Lindsays' chief operating officer and chairman of scottishathletics, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Mr Beattie's award has been given for services to athletics after a long competitive and voluntary career in the sport. As well as being scottishathle
Much has been said about the plight of criminal defence lawyers in recent years, from the inadequacy of legal aid fees to the impracticality of working hours. Almost all of it has been from the point of view of practitioners with decades of experience in the sector, though. McGovern Reid solicitor M
A new campaign is seeking a change in the law that would confer anonymity on rape complainers. Led by Glasgow Caledonian University law lecturers Andrew Tickell and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, the Campaign for Complainer Anonymity aims to formulate legislative reforms which can be adopted by the Scott
Glasgow has raced out of the starting blocks in its bid to double the size of its city centre population over the next 15 years to 40,000, writes Martin Devine. Civic leaders were last week handed a very welcome boost to their ambitions to deliver their City Centre Living Strategy (CCLS) when LGIM R
The University of Strathclyde's Mediation Clinic has hosted a virtual AGM. Students, alumni and experienced practitioners joined the meeting from places as far-flung as India, Canada, Germany, Italy, England – and even the Isle of Arran.
A daughter is suing a historian who claims the woman's mother had a relationship with an SS guard. The woman is suing academic Anna Hájková, associate professor of modern continental European history at Warwick University in a court in Frankfurt for €25,000.
A former Supreme Court president has warned that when a society deprives people of the right to challenge the government in court "you are in a dictatorship; you are in a tyranny". In a discussion on the Internal Market Bill, Lord Neuberger, David Neuberger, a former president of the Supreme Co
The Dean of Faculty has made a personal plea to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary: stop denigrating the legal profession. Mr Dunlop has written to Boris Johnson and Priti Patel following speeches in recent days in which references were made to “lefty human rights lawyers and other do-g
