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The firm that dealt with the administration of Rangers when it collapsed is suing the Lord Advocate for £25 million over the case that alleged the club was sold fraudulently, The Herald reports. Duff & Phelps' suit is the latest in the malicious prosecution scandal, the cost of which has n

The Law Society of Scotland's Racial Inclusion Group (RIG) is currently running a survey about the experiences of people from an ethnic minority background studying and/or practising law.  The Law Society established the RIG last year and is keen to get a more up-to-date account of the exp

CMS is joining forces with Interpath Advisory to stage a free-to-attend seminar for Scottish hotel and leisure businesses as they reopen after the second Covid-19 lockdown. The event will include a presentation by Stephen Montgomery, spokesperson for the Scottish Hospitality Group, a body which repr

Priti Patel's Home Office was yesterday accused of insensitivity after an immigration raid was ordered in the First Minister's constituency and phone calls from Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf to the Home Office were ignored.

Morton Fraser has appointed Martin Minton as a senior solicitor in its agricultural and rural team. He joins from Inksters, where he started his career almost 10 years ago as a student researcher and subsequently a trainee solicitor.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China: Lawyer delisted after taking up Hong Kong fugitives case barred from leaving country | South China Morning Post

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

A woman who allegedly posed as a school student to promote her Instagram account has been charged with trespassing. According to police, 28-year-old Audrey Nicole Francisquini walked into American Senior High School in Miami, Florida dressed as a student and told security she was looking for the reg

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered that the young child of a Canadian citizen be returned to Quebec to live with her after an application was made for his return under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. The mother, ML, petitioned the court for an orde

The Scottish government has made a conscious decision to deprive the legal aid system of funding. The number of lawyers able to service the scheme is dwindling. Wooed by COPFS or simply unwilling to be the sticking plaster in a broken system, they have left. As lawyers strike today, solicitor advoca

Defence lawyers around Scotland have gone on strike today after last-minute talks with the Scottish government to obtain additional payments from its resilience fund failed. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association held talks with Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf over the remainder of the fund yesterda

GCU Law has launched a dedicated website to campaign for the right to lifelong anonymity for complainers in sexual offence cases to be enshrined in Scots law. The Campaign for Complainer Anonymity, which is led by law lecturers Dr Andrew Tickell and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe and GCU students, seeks t

Back in March 2020, when the world turned upside down, whilst we started panic buying toilet roll, washing our hands singing Happy Birthday, doing Zoom pub quizzes and our daily Joe Wicks workouts, another strange phenomenon materialised: Spaces for People. The Scottish government and Sustrans initi

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence of Dillin Armstrong to the High Court of Justiciary. On 26 August 2019, after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury found the applicant and three co-accused guilty of the attempted murder of a young man. The jury foun

Half of practising lawyers are experiencing depression and anxiety, according to a study by the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the D.C. Bar. The findings come from a research project into the personal and workplace risk factors for mental health problems, substance use, and attrition among