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The rise of AI and the climate crisis are the most pressing issues facing the legal profession in the next five years, the International Bar Association (IBA) has said.

Six young people from Portugal have presented a landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that countries are breaching their human rights by failing to do enough to protect them from climate change.

Gilson Gray has expanded into the Scottish Borders with the appointment of Sharon Aris to a new hub office in Galashiels. Ms Aris brings over 30 years’ experience of working in the legal sector. She has worked in Edinburgh, London and Brussels and has now moved back to the Borders, where she g

The prisoner’s tale started in 2008 when Stephen Jackley, at some point a university student, was arrested in the United States, after being caught in Vermont using fake identification to buy a firearm. Regrettably, the reader is not favoured with much explanation of that activity. After a yea

A former teacher at a nursery in Inverness who made protected disclosures about practices within the nursery and suffered detriment has won an appeal challenging the Employment Tribunal’s finding that a decision by the General Teaching Council of Scotland to investigate a complaint made by her

Gillian Mawdsley, author of the recently released Sudden Deaths and Fatal Accidents Inquiries in Scotland: Law, Policy and Practice, looks at the differences between FAIs and inquiries. Bloomsbury Professional is offering SLN readers a special 25 per cent discount on the new book. Order today f

Cheryl Hogg details new wildlife crimes under consideration at Holyrood.   The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill is currently at Stage 1 in the Scottish Parliament. This means it has been introduced to the Parliament and is now being examined by committees before the MSPs de

Supporting farmers and crofters to produce food more sustainably, work with nature and reduce emissions is at the heart of new draft legislation. The Agriculture and Rural Communities Bill aims to reform how the government will support farming and food production in Scotland. It will legislate to in

The UK has been fined €32m (£28m) by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over its use of yacht fuels used in the final days of EU membership. The court stated that the UK government had failed to prohibit the use of “marked fuel”, known in the UK as red diesel, &

A grandmother who embezzled £1.5 million from a family scrap metal business in Aberdeen has been jailed for three years and four months. Coleen Muirhead, 55, used the money stolen from Panda Rosa Metals to finance a lifestyle that included expensive family holidays, the purchase of new cars, t

Harper Macleod has advised the shareholders of Pump Action Limited on the sale of 50 per cent of their business to Nevis Capital. Pump Action is a provider of pumping and associated equipment solutions to heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractors, facility managers and end users with the

A medicinal cannabis farm has seen its entire crop wiped out by an invading herd of sheep who ate around 300kg of cannabis, according to reports. Yannis Bourounis, owner of the farm in Almyros, Greece, told In.gr that the sheep ate everything that was left after Storm Daniel destroyed most of the pl

Sir Robert Buckland KC has stressed the importance of the rule of law ahead of party conference season. Writing in The Times today, the former justice secretary says: "The disparagement of the judiciary and legal profession has long been in evidence, in the face of judgments adverse to the governmen

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Four years behind bars for outspoken lawyer and Thai activist | Thaiger

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a serving life prisoner against a decision not to provide him with data requested under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 that he maintained would prove he was innocent of the murder of Barry Wallace in 1999. William Beggs