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Debbie Fellows urges employers and staff to come to an arrangement on how to treat a period of quarantine for employment and pay purposes. Quarantine following travel from Spain and other countries not featured on the Scottish government’s list of exemptions is a legal requirement and employee

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, has made it clear that parties in family actions should be able to participate in telephone hearings if they wish following reports that in some instances such hearings have only involved agents and sheriffs. In a letter to Shared Parenting Scotland, Lord Carloway

Victims of historic child abuse in Scotland have been given more than £4 million. More than 400 victims of abuse in care were given the money by the Scottish government.

TLT has continued its growth in the UK posting a 13 per cent rise in turnover from £87.6 million in 2018/19 to £98.8m for the financial year ending 30 April 2020. Growth across its focus sectors continues to drive the firm’s revenue increase, with major projects for financial servi

Alan McIntosh calls for an extension to emergency laws aimed at helping Scots who are struggling financially in the midst of the pandemic. As Scotland enters phase 3 of the route map to exit the lockdown, there is a danger of being seduced into believing the Scottish economy will bounce back an

An Edinburgh Law School academic is set to be part of a new £2.1m research study investigating the risks of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) healthcare workers. Jointly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Uni

Benjamin Bestgen considers 'mind-reading' technology and the law in his latest jurisprudential primer. Read the last one here. Imagine your annual review comes up and your supervisor presents you with a chart, depicting data collected by a little electroencephalogram (EEG) device built into the head

Proposed hate crime legislation could lead to police officers determining free speech and thereby devastate the legitimacy of the police service, according to the Scottish Police Federation, which represents the police rank and file. The SPF made the comments in its consultation response to the Hate

Highland Perthshire law firm, J. & H. Mitchell W.S., has announced that partner Sarah Brown has been accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in charity law. Currently, there are only nine other accredited charity law specialists in Scotland.

A call to double the time limit for bringing Employment Tribunal claims is "not necessary", a lawyer has said. Solicitors in England have pressed ministers to extend the time limit, amid concerns that swift action is needed to resolve the growing backlog of cases.

Investors remain interested in the Scottish commercial property market despite the coronavirus crisis, a lawyer has said. Derek Nash, partner at Lindsays, said that demand was “robust” throughout the crisis and that the trend towards working from home did not mean the end of the office.

Over the past three months, independent charity Crimestoppers has received a record number of reports from the public across Scotland on domestic abuse, drug dealing and child harm and neglect. In response to lockdown across Scotland, the charity ran a series of public awareness campaigns to highlig

Brian McConnachie QC has reflected on the success of the first trial since lockdown in Glasgow, saying we must "ensure that trial by jury survives the pandemic as it survived [the] World Wars". Mr McConnachie tweeted that while it was "odd at first to see an empty jury box" it quickly became "incons

An enthusiastic graduate who has unfortunately been made redundant is seeking a role in Edinburgh or West Lothian. Damon Allan was awarded a first class LLB (hons.) degree in 2018 from the University of Edinburgh, with an Erasmus year at Universiteit Leiden, in the Netherlands. He received his diplo

Scottish Labour has expressed 'serious reservations' over the Scottish government's proposed Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. Justice spokesperson James Kelly's submission to the Justice Committee in response to its call for views highlights a number of areas within the bill with pa