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Attorney General for England and Wales, Jeremy Wright QC The Attorney General for England and Wales, Jeremy Wright QC, has called on judges, solicitors and victims’ groups to submit evidence about the impact of social media on criminal trials.
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The Law Society of Scotland raised a series of concerns over the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill’s second reading at Westminster. The Law Society criticised the draft legislation as being complex, difficult to interpret and lacking in clarity. It has also highlighted concerns about the potential
The Law Society of Scotland has said that it will be critically important for the UK government and EU Commission to consider the needs of litigants with cases going before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) prior to Brexit. The society has said that both the government and Commission
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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
Former Ross Harper lawyers Alan Miller and James Price have been struck off the roll of solicitors in Scotland after the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal found them guilty of professional misconduct. The findings against Mr Miller and Mr Price were made inter alia in respect of their tenur
Law Society of Scotland charity the Lawscot Foundation is to provide support for eight young people from less advantaged backgrounds who are starting Scots law degrees this autumn. The eight school pupils, who have all had offers to study law at university, are the first to be offered financial and
Ten staff members at Thorntons Law LLP are taking part in a charity head shave in aid of Cancer Research UK early next month.
A man who took his employer to court after it said it would not pay the spouse’s pension to his civil partner in the event of his death has had his appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court who found a provision of the Equality Act 2010 incompatible with EU law. John Walker, the
Kate Allen Amnesty International has called for improved training for police into how to deal with hate crime and for a review of the hate crime legal framework as it publishes a new briefing Against Hate: Tackling hate crime in the UK.
Setting clear targets and establishing a National Poverty and Inequality Commission would help to meet aims of eradicating child poverty, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The Law Society has said in a briefing paper on the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill that setting clear aims would be required
Lord Neuberger looks at historic decisions taken by senior UK courts relating to cross-border insolvency disputes in an address at the International Insolvency Institute’s Annual Conference in London yesterday. In a comment on the common law, Lord Neuberger states: “There is a great deal to be s
