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Meena Bahanda Meena Bahanda, principal consultant (legal) at HRC Recruitment, looks the employment hurdles women still face in the legal profession.

A claim worth millions of pounds against a Glasgow law firm linked to a collapsed hedge fund has been abandoned. Paul Duffy, a liquidator with Ernst & Young, had brought a claim against Professor Peter Watson and Levy & McRae after the collapse of Heather Capital and allegations that £90 mi

A couple in France are facing a court ban on naming their daughter "Liam" because it could "create a risk of gender confusion". France's public prosecutor is arguing that giving the female baby a traditionally masculine name would be "contrary to the interest of the child and could harm her in her s

A campaigner who challenged a Scottish local authority’s decision to grant planning permission for a new development within a world heritage site has had his appeal dismissed. Simon Byrom raised judicial review proceedings against Edinburgh City Council over concerns about the potential impact of

Amanda Wilson

Philippa Cunniff On International Women’s Day 2018, Philippa Cunniff, partner and head of family law at Gilson Gray LLP, shares her experiences as a woman in the legal profession.

Work has begun on Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness due to be completed late 2019.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has launched a call for evidence as part of its Stage 1 consideration of the Prescription (Scotland) Bill. The bill implements the legislative recommendations contained in the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Prescription published in July 2017.

Angela Grahame QC Writing for Scottish Legal News on International Women's Day 2018, Vice-Dean of Faculty, Angela Grahame QC, discusses the advances of women at the Scottish bar.

Neil Kennedy MacRoberts has announced that corporate partner, Neil Kennedy will succeed John Macmillan as managing partner from 1st May 2018.

Germany's equality commissioner has sparked a national controversy by suggesting the word "fatherland" in the German national anthem should be replaced by a gender-neutral term. The suggestion comes weeks after Canada passed legislation amending the phrase "in all thy sons command" in the Canadian n

The arbitration clause in the agreement between the Netherlands and Slovakia on the protection of investments is not compatible with EU law as it removes from the mechanism of judicial review of EU law disputes which may relate to the application or interpretation of that law. In 1991 the former Cze

A gun owner whose firearms certificate was revoked because his son is a convicted drug dealer has successfully appealed against the decision. David Cameron, 59, was deemed “unfit” by Police Scotland to be entrusted with the weapon due to his “association” with a person involved in criminal a

Jennifer Love

The UK government is facing calls from opposition MPs to allow the backdated publication of Northern Ireland political donations from January 2014. Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith has alleged that the government is "doing the DUP's dirty work" by moving the date of publication from 2014