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Harvard professor David Armitage is to deliver a lecture on George III – his education in constitutionalism and the law of nations, how he gathered and processed information about imperial and international affairs, and how this constitutional and juridical knowledge shaped his understanding o
One of the world’s top scholars on international law will give a public lecture at the University of Aberdeen next month. Professor Gerry Simpson, of the London School of Economics, will deliver a retrospective on a century of war crimes trials during which he will discuss the Nuremberg and To
An application for appeal against the Inner House's judgment in the Serco lock eviction case is to be made this week. Mike Dailly, principal of Govan Law Centre, said in his column for the Evening Times that he will lodge an application seeking permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Ewan McIntyre is a consultant to Burness Paull and expert in professional negligence and financial services litigation with over 25 years’ experience. He is currently enjoying a secondment with Racine, one of the main independent French law firms, in its Lyon office. There are risks to keeping
A judicial review case is to be brought against the UK government if it fails to release a report into potential Russian interference in British politics. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written to the prime minister demanding the publication of the Intelligence and Security Committee&rsq
Tech incubator CodeBase is bringing its LawTech Bridge programme in partnership with Barclays Ventures to Scotland with a launch event in Edinburgh later this month. The initiative has already seen considerable success in London, with a series of collaborations secured between law firms and startups
Julie Hamilton considers the role of mediation in commercial litigation and whether the flexibility it offers may be the route to avoiding, or at least limiting, the disputes that get to court. What is mediation?
Glasgow lawyer Mike Dailly has joined the Evening Times as a columnist. The solicitor advocate, who campaigns for social justice and community rights, said it was the “the best community paper ever”.
Support for a new statute on heritable securities rather than changing existing legislation has been voiced by the Faculty of Advocates. The Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 introduced the standard security, the only permissible form of heritable security – the legal term in
Judges are to dispense with wigs and robes in a decision that has been criticised as unwise given Scotland's "past-oriented, uncodified, system of law". Judges sitting in the Outer House of the Court of Session will stop wearing wigs and robes from next month, except when presiding over a heari
The number of homicides in Scotland remains at its lowest level in 40 years, according to new statistics. There were 60 cases in 2018/19, the third lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976, after 59 cases were recorded in 2015/16 and 17/18.
Lord Kinclaven shares insights from the MiniTrial legal education scheme, teaching thousands of Scottish pupils about the justice system. Turn back the clock to 2001, when the book Paths to Justice Scotland was published. It was a survey which examined, among other things, the public’s perspec
Bars and law societies across Europe are today highlighting the importance of criminal legal aid in ensuring access to justice as part of European Lawyers' Day 2019. The fifth annual European Lawyers' Day, an initiative of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), is also highlighting
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