Jamies Foulis Jamies Foulis looks at a judgment on summary divorce from India's Supreme Court and how Scots law would handle something similar.
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Mike Dailly Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly suggests a solution to the problem of competing governing clauses.
Lord Bracadale A hate crime review commissioned by the Scottish government is considering whether misogyny should be criminalised, The Herald reports.
Students from the universities of Baltimore and Maryland visited Parliament House and the Faculty as part of their Summer School arranged with University of Aberdeen School of Law.
A teenager who claimed that Scottish legislation on “fixed penalty notices” breached European human rights law on the basis that there was no means of challenging the charge if an individual failed to ask to be tried for the alleged offence within the statutory 28-day time limit has had
Campaigners who claimed that legislation allowing women to terminate pregnancies by taking abortion pills at home is “unlawful” have had their appeal rejected. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge brought by the Society for
There is a right of privacy in the common law of Scotland, a Court of Session judge has ruled. The court held for the first time that the common law right exists in Scots law, and that its nature and scope is similar to that protected under article 8 of the European Convention on Huma
The UK Human Rights Blog – edited by barristers at 1 Crown Office Row – is seeking recent law graduates to contribute regular articles on human rights cases handed down by the courts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Strasbourg. The blog is looking for about five contributors in total to
It is understood that the firm will be seeking leave to appeal. The success fee provisions of an agreement between a Scottish law firm and its clients in a multi-million pound commercial action and the terms agreed by the firm when it instructed an advocate to act in the case were “illegal and
A couple who sued a Scots lawyer over the solicitor’s allegedly “negligent” advice in their purchase of a petrol station have had an appeal against a judge’s decision to dismiss their claim rejected. Sajjad Soofi and Rumella Soofi raised an action against
A campaign has been launched that aims to gain official recognition for the Scots language. Oor Vyce brings together political campaigners, academics and others to pass a law similar to the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005.
Graham Ogilvy reports on new research by US historian Kenyon Zimmer identifying for the first time some of the Scottish trade unionists caught up in America’s first Red Scare. They were the targets of America’s first Red Scare when, following a campaign against immigrants that would make
Holyrood has voted to directly incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law. MSPs voted unanimously for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill to become law, meaning public authorities will have to co
Advocate Jon Kiddie of Terra Firma Chambers explores the use of the Scots language in Scots law. ‘That the Court of Session, or College of Justice, do, after the Union, and notwithstanding thereof, remain, in all time coming, within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdo