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Lady Rae has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of her contribution to Scots law. She received her honorary doctorate of laws at a ceremony on 27 June 2019.

Referring to the upcoming consultation on smacking, a recent newspaper headline declared: “Scots parents will face jail for smacking their children under new laws unveiled at Holyrood.” Somehow I don’t think so.

Linda Walker comments on the Supreme Court's judgment in a major Scots family law case.

Tributes have been paid to the late Scots lawyer and former top judge, Lord McCluskey. The widely-known legal figure was born in 1929, the son of solicitor Francis McCluskey, and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates three years after his graduation from the University of Edinburgh in 1952.

Legislation to make civil justice more affordable and accessible for all has today been published at Holyrood. The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill, if passed by Parliament, will:

This year's SLN Annual Review delivers updates from across the field of family law in 2016, including on child law, cohabitation and the Named Persons case. Harper Macleod partner Amanda Masson looks at the state of child relocation in Scots law, noting that last year saw an increase in instructions

Iain Nisbet No school closure decisions were reviewed in what has been a "quiet year", according to the second School Closure Review Panels report.

A North Ayrshire man has been jailed for 18 months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court after being found guilty of hamesucken. The court heard that Graeme Bryden, who was 27 at the time of the offence, broke into the home of the woman in Stevenston in the early hours of 25 June 2015.

Raising the age of criminal responsibility would bring consistency across Scots law, according to the Law Society of Scotland. At eight, Scotland has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world and the Law Society has welcomed a recommendation to increase it.

SLN assistant editor Kapil Summan looks back at some of the biggest stories in Scots law this year. The past year has been one of reform and change in the Scottish legal profession. In January, the then Lord President, Lord Gill, announced the timetable for the commencement of provisions of the Cour

Ian Maxwell Ian Maxwell discusses changes enacted this week to the family court system.

The Faculty of Advocates has staged a major conference to highlight and examine the most significant structural reforms of the Scottish court system in more than 150 years. The event, Court Reform: The New Law, proved so popular that it had to be moved from its original venue of the Faculty’s Mack

An animal rights group has written to the Scottish Government demanding a member of a group examining wild fisheries law be removed because of his alleged association with recent wildlife crime. Animal Concern has said George Pullar, director of The Scottish Wild Salmon Company, should no longer sit

The lord president, Lord Gill (pictured right) presented details this morning of the timetable and specific arrangements for civil justice reform at a conference,“Digital Justice: Modern, User-Focused Civil and Administrative Justice”, at the Glasgow Hilton Hotel. The lord president set out in h

Laura Simpson and Christine McKellar of Govan Law Centre raise the alarm over proposed changes to legal aid for adults with incapacity in Scotland. It is no secret that Scotland’s legal aid system is in urgent need of reform. With the increase in legal aid deserts caused by an ever-diminishing