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Are you looking for a stocking filler for the lover of legal philosophy in your life? Or perhaps you just want them to stop talking about it. In any case, rejoice, for SLN's jurisprudential primer series has been turned into a book – just in time for Christmas.
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An appeal by two parents whose youngest children were removed from them following allegations of abuse have lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to uphold a children’s hearing decision in the Court of Session. Appellants LO and EO, who along with their children held dual nationali
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A new duty is being proposed in Scotland that would require employers to pay for transport home for staff working late night shifts, writes Audrey Ferrie. Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman is working with Unite Hospitality and others to prepare a members’ bill which would require compani
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Under a planned amendment to the Online Safety Bill, people who share so-called ‘deepfakes’ – explicit images or videos which have been manipulated to look like someone without their consent – will be among those to be specifically criminalised for the first time and face pot
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In a five part series for Scottish Legal News this week, BTO partner Cat MacLean tells the story of an epic legal battle with the Clydesdale Bank. She explains the reality of litigating against a huge opponent with bottomless pockets, the cost and funding of litigation and the need to find leve
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Dr Kirsteen Shields – senior lecturer in international law and food security at the University of Edinburgh, at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems – reflects on the most recent discussion of the Land and Human Rights Forum (LAHRAF), exploring food systems' concerns relate
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Scottish taxpayers could see the amount they pay in tax go up after the Scottish government publishes its income tax plans in December. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday used his first Autumn Statement to announce a number of measures aimed at raising an additional £25 billion in tax revenue, o
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Abuse victims are turning their back on a Scottish government redress scheme amid a catalogue of delays, failures and broken promises, Digby Brown has said. Redress Scotland, which launched a year ago, was designed to provide one-off payments of between £10,000 to £100,000 as well as non
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A suspended part-time sheriff has been unsuccessful in a challenge of the decision of the Scottish Ministers to continue funding his legal representation for a review of a decision by a tribunal reporting on his fitness to practice. Petitioner John Halley was suspended from office after comments he
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Harper Macleod has advised the Langholm Initiative, the south of Scotland’s largest community project, on the successful buyout of 5,300 acres of moorland for nature restoration and preservation. Following a community fundraising of £2.2 million in the summer, the Langholm Initiative has
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The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal against conviction by a man sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment on various charges of lewd and libidinous practices towards three children. Appellant JH argued that in respect of the sixth charge against him, for which he was sentenced to 18
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DWF has relocated its Edinburgh team – which includes four new senior hires – to Grade A office space in the heart of Edinburgh. The legal business has moved from No. 2 Lochrin Square to 2 Semple Street in the city's business district.DWF has leased the second floor at 2 Semple Street, w
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On October 11, 2022, the Court of Session found against the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), not for the first time. Yet the cost of this latest litigation will be borne not by its lay members but by the lawyers so inadequately represented by it, writes Andrew Stevenson. The SLCC is a cr
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Stronachs LLP is preparing to publish a guide to new energies which is set to offer an insight into a “watershed” moment in challenges around climate change, energy transition and net zero. The book is set to be published in two phases with a digital edition to be followed up by a print
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Edinburgh Law School's Professor Laura Macgregor is to present a lecture entitled Scottish Partnership Law: the Contribution of George Joseph Bell later this month. The lecture will focus on Scottish partnership law, specifically the contribution of the institutional writer, George Joseph Bell, to t
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