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To Stirling for a books and blethers lunch with our ace reviewer and legal historian Robert Shiels to celebrate over 200 reviews in Scottish Legal News. Our choice is Brea, a self-styled ‘Scottish restaurant’, the name is derived from the little-known Scots word for a slope and it is ind

From ancient sages to contemporary leaders, there is broad agreement that judgement is an indispensable quality a person must possess for making good decisions. Even the staunchest AI advocates, who explain all the things which AI already can or will soon do better than humans, emphasise that human

The Outer House of the Court of Session has exercised its parens patriae jurisdiction to authorise the treatment of three seriously ill children, despite their parents refusing to do so on account of their religious and personal beliefs. Three children, believed to be at risk of severe harm or death

Scotland generated a record £98.3 billion in revenue during 2025-26: an annual increase of £6.3 billion (6.9 per cent), according to the Scottish Government. The revenue per person in Scotland at £17,718 was similar to the UK average of £17,720 in the same year, when revenue

A lord ordinary has granted special powers to the judicial factor of a trust, set up to manage an East Lothian farm following its owner’s death, despite a trustee’s objections to the factor’s proposals to sell the farm. The noter was appointed judicial factor of the Old Waughton Di

A lord ordinary has refused an action to quash a decree of divorce granted after undefended proceedings in 2024, finding that the pursuer’s suggestions of inaccuracies in the factual basis of the decree did not provide sufficient grounds for reduction. The parties’ divorce was granted on

Jamie Dunne’s focus is advising on technically complex matters in a clear, understandable and useful way. Which is something of a relief: as a lawyer working across competition law, public procurement and subsidy control he operates in one of the profession’s most technically demanding a

A commercial judge has allowed a proof in an action by three former company shareholders who alleged that the purchaser of their shares failed to comply with their obligations in respect of potential further consideration they could have obtained under the contract, but refused their motion for decr

The Outer House of the Court of Session has declared that Scottish Prison Service guidance permitting trans women to be accommodated in the female prison estate is unlawful following a petition for judicial review, after concluding that the guidance conflicted with a statutory requirement to provide

It’s a long way from Serena Sutherland’s office beside the harbour in Kirkwall to the Law Society of Scotland’s headquarters in the west end of Edinburgh (more than 200 miles by air) but that doesn’t deter the new president of the Law Society of Scotland. Nor does it the prof

To Dublin – a city fairly swarming with highly-paid lawyers, their salaries supercharged by big UK and US law firms locating to Ireland in search of a foothold in the European Union. New buildings are springing up on the banks of the Liffey like shamrocks after a summer shower. Our cheerful ta

Fresh from the UK Supreme Court's Glasgow sitting, president of the court, Lord Reed of Allermuir, spoke to SLN editor Kapil Summan.  Upon his appointment as president of the Supreme Court in 2020, Lady Elish Angiolini recalled that in her practising days she once asked Robert Reed to write a p

To the ‘silver city of the North’, as it was once styled, and home to Scotland’s other Faculty of Advocates. Aberdeen is in the economic doldrums following the downturn in the North Sea, the current government’s reluctance to ‘drill baby drill’ and the failure of

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against the grant of summary decree for payment following a breach of a consumer credit agreement after finding that a defence raised by the appellant based on a case concerning hidden commission in car sales was not relevant to the matter subject to li

Oz (London) No.33, February 1971. Cover image by Norman Lindsay. In part one of a retrospective on a notorious obscenity trial, sparked by a subversive depiction of Rupert Bear in the counter-cultural magazine Oz, Ronnie Clancy KC looks at how the case became a defining legal and cultural clash of t