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Reports of online grooming in Scotland have risen by nearly 80 per cent in five years, according to new analysis published by NSPCC Scotland. Police Scotland recorded a record high 685 offences of communicating a sexual message to a child in 2020/21, up from 381 in 2015/16.

A judge-led public inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic will be established by the end of the year, ministers announced today. A consultation has been launched on the draft aims and principles of the inquiry, and the government said discussions are "underway with

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon – or Johnny Rotten – has lost a High Court battle with his former bandmates over a new TV show about their career. He pulled out of the six-part miniseries to be directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle and refused to allow the band's music to be used in the s

A law firm has warned that young victims of human trafficking are being criminalised in Scotland instead of protected and supported. JustRight Scotland told investigative platform The Ferret that it has seen a rise in referrals from young Vietnamese people charged and sometimes remanded in Scottish

Six new first-year trainee solicitors have joined Your Conveyancer in Dunfermline.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the Scottish government's committent to a "human rights-based" inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kavita Chetty, head of strategy and legal for the rights watchdog, briefed MSPs last week on why human rights need to be embedded in th

An obituary of Brian Manus McGuire, founding partner of Thompsons Solicitors Scotland, has been published by The Herald. Mr McGuire, who died last month the day before his 82nd birthday, "defined what it is to be a socialist lawyer", it notes.

A piece in the FT yesterday on the Lugano Convention was one of the first that has looked at the family law consequences of the UK no longer being a party to the Convention (which provides agreed jurisdictional rules in cross border cases for civil and commercial matters, and provides for recogniti

A petition for judicial review by a hospice challenging the decision of Healthcare Improvement Scotland to publish a report containing details of a complaint made against it has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session.  The anonymous petitioner, Y, argued that it had

The Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) has dismissed an appeal from a journalist who complained that he was threatened by a solicitor. The tribunal upheld the determination of the Law Society's professional conduct subcommittee (PCSC), which cleared Kilmarnock solicitor Neil McPherson o

Seven sets of draft rules prepared by the Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) were given legal effect during its 2020/21 reporting period despite the significant impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Achievements, accounts and a summary of the rules prepared during the year by the SCJC are laid out in

A Trump-era policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed in the US must be reinstated following a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The top court refused to grant the Biden administration a stay on a district court injunction pending app

The estate of the sculptor of Copenhagen's famous Little Mermaid statue is suing a small Danish town to demand it removes its own statue of a mermaid. The heirs of Edvard Eriksen, who sculpted the character from the Hans Christian Anderson story that inspired the Disney classic, argue the statue in

Alan Meek, partner and head of Morton Fraser's restructuring and insolvency team, discusses the intricacies of limited liability. Limited liability is one of the fundamental concepts in our understanding of company law.

New Zealand's privacy commissioner John Edwards has been named as the UK government's preferred candidate for information commissioner. Mr Edwards, who has over 20 years' experience practising law and specialising in information law, will appear before MPs next month for pre-appointment scrutiny.