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UN talks on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) – or "killer robots" – have failed to reach agreement on banning them in warfare. The sixth review conference of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), taking place over five days in Geneva, could not reach an ag

James Wolffe QC will be rejoining Brick Court Chambers in London – where he was a door tenant between 2013-16 – as a door tenant in the New Year. Before his appointment as lord advocate, Mr Wolffe had a substantial and wide-ranging public and commercial law practice at the Scottish bar.

A Lord Ordinary has ruled that an insurer that had a claim brought against it following a bus accident in Malta could not claim relief or apportionment against the local transport authority after it was convened as a third party to the case. Simon Morrison, the pursuer, sought reparation from Middle

Chris Mackay reveals whether courts can be used to recover documents relating to adjudication. Can you use the courts to recover documents from another party for the purposes of adjudication in Scotland?

Glasgow lawyers Just Employment Law have raised an incredible £73,140 in an online auction held in November for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM). The auction raised vital funds for Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland (PCAS), of whom Just Employment Law are long-term supporters.

The divorce settlement that the ruler of Dubai has been ordered to make with his wife is the highest ever in an English court – standing at £554 million. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, 72, posed a serious risk to his former wife Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, 47, who fled to Lond

Kenny MacAskill has said the Scottish government must “come clean” over whether it was allowing prosecutors and women's groups to lay the ground for radical reform of the justice system as senior legal figures continue to insist on juryless trials. Mr MacAskill wrote to Justice Secretary

Deputy First Minister John Swinney has written to the UK government objecting to “ill-judged and irresponsible” plans to revise and replace the Human Rights Act. In a letter to Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab, Mr Swinney described the proposals as an unacceptable attack on human rights, con

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has today taken on a new role in relation to complaints in the new Alternative Business Structures regime. Following confirmation that the Scottish government has authorised the Law Society of Scotland as an Approved Regulator for Alternative Business

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said his government will keep its controversial immigration laws, in defiance of an EU ruling. The Court of Justice of the European Union last month ruled that Hungary's law criminalising lawyers and activists who helped asylum seekers fell foul of EU law.

A barrister who claimed his colleagues had targeted him over farts he couldn't stop has lost his lawsuit against the English prosecution service. Tarique Mohammed, who worked for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), told an employment tribunal that he couldn't stop farting because of his heart medic

The Scottish government has announced today that the Law Society of Scotland has been authorised as a regulator of Licensed Legal Services Providers in Scotland. The government’s authorisation is a further step towards solicitors and non-solicitors being able to set up businesses together to p

Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism have in common that they offered the atomized individual a new refuge and security. These systems are the culmination of alienation. The individual is made to feel powerless and insignificant, but taught to project all of his human powers into the figure of the leader,

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has dismissed an action by the defender in a settled action seeking right of relief from a third party to the case following the grant of absolvitor in their favour. Cruden Buildings and Renewals Ltd had been the first defender in an action original

The Faculty of Advocates has voiced its opposition to the creation of a new independent regulator for all legal services.  In its response to the Scottish government’s consultation on legal services regulation reform in Scotland, the Faculty said it believed establishing such a regulator