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More than 60 members of the Egyptian Parliament have proposed a law that will criminalise same-sex sexual activity in the country for the first time. The draft law, the latest development since the Egyptian authorities launched an LGBTI-related crackdown after a rainbow flag was displayed at a conce
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The European Court of Human Rights will hear a landmark case on surveillance today as part of a challenge to the lawfulness of the UK’s surveillance laws and its intelligence agencies’ mass surveillance practices. The case, described by campaigners as a “watershed moment for people’s privacy
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George Gretton On 1 December 2017 an all-day conference will be held in Edinburgh to celebrate the career of Professor Emeritus George Gretton. The conference will also mark the publication of A J M Steven, R G Anderson and J MacLeod (eds), Nothing so Practical as a Good Theory: Festschrift for Geor
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A new exhibition by National Records of Scotland brings you face-to-face with Scotland’s criminal past – from an infamous murderer to con artists, pickpockets and petty thieves.
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Members of Terra Firma Chambers are to participate in Sleep in the Park, the world's largest ever sleep-out to end homelessness in Scotland. Team Terra Firma, comprising Andrew Bowen QC, Graham Dunlop, Roddy MacLeod and clerks Emma Potter and Andrew Veitch, will be part of a 9,000 strong gathering s
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Michael Matheson The number of homicides in Scotland has risen for the first time in seven years, new figures have revealed.
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Law firms may face retrospective VAT bills, accountants have warned. Following the recent case of Brabners LLP and HMRC, Brabners have been ordered to pay £68,000 in VAT as HMRC claimed that electronic property searches should not have been treated as disbursements for VAT purposes. Accountancy fir
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Scott Blair Terra Firma advocate Scott Blair has been asked to join the Working Group of the Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare (ALAW). The working group has been formed as part of a project by ALAW to advise on the ongoing implications for the protection of the welfare of animals in the UK a
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The ex-wife of a man found guilty of murder and being concerned in the supply of cannabis is to be removed from her “family home” after a judge granted a proceeds of crime order for administrators to recover the property. Margaret Duncan, former wife of convicted killer and drug dealer James Dun
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Scottish Discrimination Law Association (SDLA) and Industrial Law Society joint afternoon seminar: Equality law after Brexit – What next? and SDLA AGM The SDLA and Industrial Law Society invites you to an afternoon seminar on Thursday 7th September 2017, at 4pm (registration from 3.30pm onwards),
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Michelle Adam Michelle Adam contrasts punitive and compensatory PI regimes following an interesting case in the US involving huge sums in punitive damages.
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Liz MacKay Despite the use of English court terminology, Morton Fraser's Liz MacKay and Audrey Watson were impressed by a 'trial' that included an audience-picked jury.
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The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Legal History is celebrating the release of Karen Baston's Charles Areskine's Library: Scottish Lawyers and their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment (Brill 2016) with a reception next month. Charles Areskine might be better known to legal schol
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Janet Rieu-Clarke Over 400 Law Society of Scotland registered paralegals have become known as, ‘Accredited Paralegals’ this week. The name change is intended to reflect the professional status of paralegals accredited under the scheme.
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