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Human rights group Amnesty International has highlighted 20 important cases involving the Human Rights Act 1998 to mark 20 years since it received royal assent. Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, called the act "the unsung hero of UK life" and hit out at threats from politicians

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission are launching the first of a series of public consultations about legal reforms aimed at ensuring the country is prepared for the introduction of automated vehicles. This is an early milestone in a three-year review to examine a

Our sister publication Scottish Construction Now has just celebrated its 15th anniversary by upgrading its www.scottishconstructionnow.com website and confirming its status as an essential read for construction lawyers seeking to keep up to date with Scotland's dynamic construction sector. SCN edito

Morton Fraser has appointed Elise Turner as a senior associate to its employment law team. Based in the firm’s Glasgow office, Ms Turner, an employment law specialist, joins Morton Fraser from Dentons, where she worked for more than nine years.

The recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Sciotto v Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma serves as a great reminder to employers in the arts industry of the complexities involved in employing fixed-term employees, write John Macmillan and Cono

The senior woman at the Scottish bar, Frances McMenamin QC, is to continue her long association with the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission for at least another six months. Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced that Ms McMenamin’s appointment – she first became a board

Populism and human rights will be the subject of a lecture by barrister and academic Professor Connor Gearty in Edinburgh next month. JUSTICE Scotland's Annual Human Rights Day Lecture, chaired this year by Supreme Court Justice, Lord Hodge, will be delivered by Professor Gearty on Monday 10 Decembe

Dozens of criminal justice charities have been gagged by public sector contracts which prevent them from criticising the UK government, The Times reports. An investigation by the newspaper into so-called "gagging clauses" in government contracts suggests that some of Britain's biggest

Bruce Wood reflects on the slow pace of change in updating the moveable transactions regime. In The Scotsman on 28 August 2011 I lauded the Scottish Law Commission's discussion paper on the reform of the law on moveable transactions. (More on what those are in a minute.) I pointed out that this

The number of police officers has fallen to its lowest level since the start of 2009, new figures published by Scotland's chief statistician show. The figures reveal that there were 17,147 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 30 September 2018.

In his recent opinion piece, Willie Mcintyre is correct to highlight the poor reporting that we have seen around the consultation on the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) Bill. This bill is not a “smacking bill” and is unlikely to lead to parents going to jail for smacking their c

Dentons has advised the shareholders of Hugh King & Co Holdings Ltd., a producer of dried mortar and render products and a supplier of sports sand, on the sale of the company to Scottish quarry firm Tillicoultry Quarries Ltd. The deal will see Tillicoultry Quarries purchase 100 per cent of the s

An Irish law firm has become the first to appoint a full-time pro bono associate. New appointee Eithne Lynch said she hopes other firms follow in the footsteps of A&L Goodbody by creating similar roles.

Lawyers and law students are being invited to a special event to formally launch a new Faculty of Advocates scholarship and to mark the first anniversary of the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers' Association (SEMLA). The evening will feature a keynote speech by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf. The d