Today marks 100 years since the commencement of the Battle of Passchendaele, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres. Solicitor Gillian Mawdsley remembers three Scots lawyers who died in the fighting. For some, the name of Passchendaele alone may well conjure up long-forgotten English lessons:
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The burden of proof establishing that a proposed marriage is one of convenience falls on the Secretary of State, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. An EU citizen with a permanent right of residence in a host member state may have that right removed ‘in the case of abuse of rights or fraud,
Jody Crockett Burness Paull has announced a raft of appointments and partner promotions that it says underpin its ambitious strategy for the future.
Sir Geoffrey Vos Members of the Faculty of Advocates have enjoyed an illuminating and thought-provoking lecture by one of the foremost figures of the English judiciary, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court.
The Supreme Court will share photos of its first ever sitting outside London as it joins picture-sharing social media app Instagram this week. The court will start to share images from today via @uksupremecourt or as it prepares to hear three appeals in Edinburgh’s City Chambers over the course of
A graphic design student exhibiting at this year’s University of Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show has used Britain’s love of tea as a way of highlighting the humanity of prisoners, regardless of their crimes.
Gordon Jackson QC Next weekend I'm going to a reunion to celebrate, if that's the right word, 50 years since going to Dundee to study law. There were four women in the class. Some years later I joined the Faculty. Four women there as well. The law clearly was the preserve of white men with the odd t
A woman facing an action for payment of more than £170,000 following a “gratuitous alienation” who claimed that the statutory defences available to a challenge to such a transfer breached her human rights has had her defence dismissed. The case raised the issue of whether the terms of section 3
Pictured (L-R): Professor Lorne Crerar, Paul Wheelhouse and David Bone
Dr Stuart Waiton Dr Stuart Waiton, a senior lecturer in criminology at Abertay University, gives his thoughts on the Goodwillie case.
Pictured (L-R): Mary McQueen; Dot Mullally, partner McQueen Legal and Jo Dallas
For the academic year 2017–18, the Stair Society will offer one or more one-year bursaries of £1,000 to postgraduate students who are enrolled in a Masters or PhD programme and who are preparing a thesis in Scottish legal history, broadly construed. At the time of application eligible postgraduat
A man who claimed that a Scots lawyer who acted for his wife in a divorce action marketed the estranged couple’s property for sale without his consent has failed in an appeal against a tribunal’s decision to dismiss his complaint against the solicitor. The Inner House of the Court of Session rul
The UK Supreme Court will sit in Edinburgh later this year, the first time that the UK’s highest court has sat outside London. Several appeals will be heard over up to four days in June, with at least five of the Supreme Court justices sitting over the course of the visit. The list of cases to be
