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Friday 26 January 2018, 9.30am - 1.30pm

David Menzies A recent BBC programme investigated how the bankruptcy system works concluding that it allows criminal and dishonest debtors to keep hold of wealth and avoid punishment. David Menzies looks at whether the programme provides a fair representation of the system.

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh offers his thoughts on the BBC's controversial programme on bankruptcy.

Campbell Deane A prominent Scottish defamation lawyer has warned that proposals to align Scotland's defamation laws with England and Wales could "lead to the death of defamation litigation in Scotland".

Ahead of this week’s Scottish budget tomorrow, the Law Society of Scotland has called for further reforms to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) and has commented on the impact of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax introduced last year. In its comment paper the Law Society has said some of

Dr Vanessa Davies New research from the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has revealed that BME students are less successful in obtaining pupillage than white students.

The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal has found Torquil MacLeod, formerly of Torquil MacLeod & Co, in Inverness, guilty of professional misconduct after he charged grossly excessive fees to an executry and failed to render fee notes in respect of the fees taken. He has been fined £3,00

New figures have shown that despite a record number of solicitors in the year 2016/17, there were only 23 more complaints against the legal profession, representing less than one per cent of solicitor transactions. The number of Scottish solicitors holding a practising certificate during 2016/17 was

Professor Stephen Tierney of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law places the opening debates on the Brexit legislation in a wider context.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties. T

The Law Society of Scotland has said that aspects of the universal service obligation (USO) for broadband service providers mean it is unlikely to meet the needs of more remote rural communities in Scotland. In its response to the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport's consultation on the

Andrew Green QC The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed to the Treasury Committee’s proposal for a legal adviser to study its report into misconduct at 73 per cent state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland’s now notorious GRG restructuring unit.

Joe Boyd An Edinburgh-based solicitor has spoken out about being a lawyer with a stammer in the run up to International Stammering Awareness Day.

Dr Dirk Voorhoof Dr Dirk Voorhoof of the Human Rights Centre at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at Ghent University addresses a recent European court judgment.

6pm Brodies Glasgow