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Edinburgh Law School has become the first university in Scotland to run a master's course on LGBT rights. On 21 May, Edinburgh Law School’s Dr Paul Behrens gave a presentation about the LGBT Rights: A Legal Perspective course to the Cross-Party Group on LGBTI+ of the Scottish Parliament.

Deputy chief constable Bex Smith has been appointed as the Scottish Sentencing Council’s new constable member. DCC Smith brings a wealth of experience to the council with over 20 years of policing experience drawn from a range of nationally significant command functions.

Professor Frankie McCarthy has been re-appointed as a commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission for three years. A professor of private law at the University of Glasgow, she has been in post first as a lecturer, then a senior lecturer, since 2007.

Burness Paull and Marks & Clerk are among the first wave of founding partners of the Scottish Space Network. Established in 2023, the network is dedicated to supporting the sector by promoting the achievements of Scottish SpaceTech companies, attracting investment, nurturing talent pipelines and

Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region has retained 78 per cent of trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified roles in the UK in 2024, with a quarter of its new lawyers taking up roles in Scotland. Out of the 34 trainees and two apprentices who applied in the UK,

A former prosecutor in Aberdeen was “stunned” to learn that a customer of his family's pub had planned to have him assassinated, a trial has heard. Darren Harty, 37, gave evidence at the trial of Martin Ready, 41, at the High Court in Glasgow.

A coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations has demanded that the Scottish government fulfil its promise to introduce the Scottish Human Rights Bill. In a letter to First Minister John Swinney, the organisations express their frustration at the bill’s exclusion from the current le

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has been named Private Client Team of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards.

Environmental and human rights campaigners rallied outside the Court of Session yesterday to mark the Scottish government missing a crucial deadline for compliance with the with the UN Aarhus Convention’s access to justice requirements.

A team of runners from Thompsons Solicitors took part in the Great Scottish Run to raise funds for the Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. 

A team of 60 from Jones Whyte participated in the Great Scottish Run, raising vital funds for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. 

The First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has issued welcome guidance on the assessment of “additional charges” payable on solicitors’ fees in judicial accounts, writes Claire White. This is a percentage uplift on solicitors’ fees which is allowed where th

Taste there is none, notes David J Black in part two of his look at films in Scotland. See part one here. Soppy romantic books and films of the Jackie variety are not for your scrivener, the reader may have gathered, yet one isn’t unsentimental. A dear aunt about 10 years older than onese

Connor Beaton talks to Philippa Greer about how UNRWA is battling to preserve international humanitarian law in Gaza, where at least 42,800 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's military response to the October 7 attack. Philippa Greer had already accepted the top job in UNRWA’s field

The number of cases being considered by the Scottish government in relation to the Horizon scandal has been reduced to 97, Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee has been told. Writing to the committee, Justice Secretary Angela Constance, said that 44 of the 141 cases were deemed as not within the re