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Pictured: Alasdair Cummings, centre, with, from left: Michael Higgins, Jennifer Philp, Scott Briggs, James Siwela and Dylan Ackerley Lindsays has recruited five new trainees.

Northern Ireland barrister James Stitt examines a Scottish case with significance for clinical negligence practitioners. Once more, a Scottish case has provided an opportunity for a substantial development of the law in the field of clinical negligence.

A revised treaty with Rwanda addresses the Supreme Court's reservations about the government's controversial migrant policy, according to Home Secretary James Cleverly. Last month, the court ruled that the scheme, aimed at sending migrants to Rwanda, risked breaching human rights.

A bill to reform and modernise the law relating to judicial factors has been published. Judicial factors are appointed by courts to look after property belonging to someone else. For example, judicial factors can be appointed over a solicitors' firm where there has been a breach of the Law Society o

Thorntons has announced Paul Adams and John Smart as partners for its first office in Inverness alongside a further eight appointments. The new team joins from Wright, Johnston and Mackenzie.

The average selling price of property in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders dropped 6.6 per cent year-on-year to £273,348, according to new figures from ESPC. The average percent of Home Report valuation attained was 4.2 percentage points lower than last year, recorded at 102.6 per

Catholic nuns who own shares in gun maker Smith & Wesson are suing the company over its manufacturing of "mass-killing assault weapons". New York law firm Newman Ferrara LLP is representing the coalition of four congregations of Catholic sisters who have filed the stockholder derivative lawsuit

Former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday lost his temper in the hot seat at the public inquiry examining the UK government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, where he was grilled by lead counsel to the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC – but who is this distinguished barrister? The joint head of c

A farm labourer who acted as an illegal gangmaster has been fined £400. Dean Currie, 33, pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to receiving just over £6,000 for illegally supplying workers to pick potatoes at a number of farms in Fife.

A new approach aimed at reducing domestic abuse-related homicides and suicides has received backing. The proposals for a Domestic Homicide and Suicide Review Model would help identify what lessons can be learned and applied following the death of a partner, ex-partner, or child where abuse is suspec

The Junior Bar Association has reserved the Laigh Hall at the Court of Session for the International Christmas Court later this month.

An academic is looking for participants for her research on inequalities in knowledge production in criminology and learning in Scotland. Janine Ewen, an early career researcher based at the University of Aberdeen, is carrying out a qualitative ethnographic study via interviews.

A consultation on new laws designed to protect the interests of future generations has been launched by the Scottish government. Public policy experts at Dunfermline-based Carnegie UK have welcomed the move, but warned ministers that legislation alone won’t address many of Scotland’s big

A woman who admitted to assaulting a fast food worker has been sentenced to two months' work in a fast food restaurant. Rosemary Hayne, 39, threw a burrito bowl in the face of the manager of a Chipotle restaurant in Ohio in an assault which was captured on video and went viral on social media.