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Professor Richard Susskind Professor Richard Susskind has called for a slow and modest introduction of an online court, Legal Futures reports.

Lord Neuberger At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular.

David Morgan (left) and Graham Mitchell

Gemma Lampert Gemma Lampert and Will Anderson look at whether a lump sum can be extracted from a pension and treated as income to pay creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.

A police officer tasked with reviewing traffic light footage and issuing tickets was forced to censure himself for running a red light. Officer Tim Glover of the Haines City Police Department in Florida didn't realise his infraction until two weeks after the fact.

A car finance company which applied to a court to have a customer jailed after he failed to pay the instalments have had their application refused by a sheriff. The pursuers Moneybarn No 1 had agreed with the defender Steven Bell that he would purchase a car for a specified sum, but he did not pay a

The Law Society of Scotland has published its annual plan for 2016/17 featuring 30 key projects aimed at delivering year two of the Law Society’s five year strategy, “Leading Legal Excellence”.The plan outlines projects within each of the Law Society’s five strategic goals to assure, serve,

A solicitor guilty of embezzling over £21,000 from a law firm in Edinburgh has sold his house to repay the sum. Paul O’Donnell, 35, has moved in with relatives after declaring bankruptcy and leaving the profession.

Dr Joe Morrow QC LLD

Tesco is being sued for £100 million by more than 125 institutional investors over allegations of misleading statements regarding its earnings two years ago. The claim states that the supermarket giant “made misleading statements to the stock market that omitted material information and which wer

Stephen McGowan The Institute of Licensing, the UK’s professional membership body for licensing practitioners, has for the first time launched a Scottish region and appointed Stephen McGowan, partner and head of licensing (Scotland) at TLT LLP as chair.

Liam McArthur The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called the Scottish government's declaration that it is meeting its police officer headcount target a “routine pretence”.

Richard Turnbull Richard Turnbull discusses the numerous issues surrounding Scotland's renewables strategy.

A long-running dispute over whether a pony was legally evicted from an ex-council house returns to the Scottish courts this week. Stephanie Noble has challenged Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, saying that it acted wrongly when it seized her Connemara pony, Grey Lady Too.

An appeal by the occupiers of the so-called “Independence Camp” against a move to evict them from the grounds of the Scottish Parliament has been rejected. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision by Lord Turnbull that that the order seeking their removal was “proportionate”