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Law Society of Scotland president elect Sheila Webster reflects on a visit to Edinburgh Central Mosque. It’s always an honour to be welcomed with hospitality and generosity, and that’s even more the case when it comes to events that hold special significance for your host. So i

Private client lawyer Alison McKay has been promoted from director to partner at Lindsays, having joined the firm’s Glasgow-based team only two years ago. She is one of six lawyers whose promotions have been announced today – with one director and four more associates also taking up new

The Faculty of Advocates’ Mini-devilling Scheme has been judged a resounding success by participating law students. Open to students studying for the diploma in professional legal practice, the scheme aims to encourage people from a wide range of backgrounds to consider a career at the bar, pa

Jimmy Black meets corporate lawyer Robert Pirrie WS, chief executive and in-house lawyer of the Society of Writers to the Signet. Deep in the cellars of the Signet Library, there are caverns with sturdy doors, guarding some of the Scottish legal profession’s most fascinating historical treasur

Aberdeen law student Hamza Afzal is one of 10 finalists and the only Scottish student in the running for the Undergraduate Future Lawyer of the Year Awards 2023. The 21-year-old, who is studying Scots law with English law, was one of more than 5,000 entrants from across the UK to take part in the co

France is on the cusp of adopting new legislation to regulate influencers amid claims some promote financial scams, defective products and dodgy cosmetic procedures.

An English copyright judge has ruled that the 2019 John Lewis Christmas advert featuring a dragon unable to control its fire did not infringe the copyright of a children’s book author who had self-published a book with a similar premise. Fay Evans, who authored a work titled Fred the Fire-Snee

A prisoner who was imprisoned in 1996 for murdering a young man with a knife in Renfrew has successfully petitioned for a judicial review of a decision of the Parole Board for Scotland’s not to release him on licence. DD, the petitioner, was aged 16 when he was convicted in June 1996 and was s

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration is to return to Edinburgh to launch its Congress book in September, a year on from ICCA Edinburgh. The 21st edition of the ICCA Congress Series will be launched during the inaugural Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival, which will take pla

Who remembers the Roberton Report? Who could have guessed the pandemic reasons for it ending up in the long grass for so long? Covered well by SLN, the announcement has, after a couple of contributions proved that the solicitor branch of the profession at least is as comfortable with its apathy as e

Defence counsel Tony Lenehan KC writes that juryless trials are being driven by ideology rather than evidence.  After reading the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill I was disappointed but not surprised. I am disappointed at the many politicians, lobbyists, academics and

Dhana McIver has been appointed by Balfour and Manson as its first disability officer. Ms McIver, who is profoundly deaf and wears hearing aids in both ears, is a trainee solicitor who has had a wide-ranging career in the law, having worked for six years as an executry paralegal and 11 years with th

The Dundee criminal defence agents met on Wednesday 3 May, and it was a unanimous decision that they will not be taking part in the Scottish government's planned juryless trials pilot scheme. After this meeting I noted numerous Bar Associations and Faculties doing the same thing. On Tuesday 9 May, w

A former judge of the Supreme Court has expressed concern about the compatibility of Scottish government proposals for juryless rape trials with the independence of the judiciary. Lord Hope of Craighead has said he is "very uneasy" with clause 40 of the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotlan

UK law firm Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has introduced parental leave coaching for parents returning to the workplace after parental or adoption leave. The firm is working in partnership with Bright Horizons to implement a range of new work and family policies to help retain sta