A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun
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A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f
Jeremy Hutchinson QC, Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, has passed away at the age of 102. Lord Hutchinson was regarded as the greatest criminal barrister of his generation. He was junior defence counsel in the Lady Chatterley trial; defended the spy George Blake; model Christine Keeler and the drug de
The EU must renew its efforts to promote gender equality and eradicate discrimination and violence towards women, according to a new paper from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The paper – Challenges to women's human rights in the EU: Gender discrimination, sexist hate speech and gender
The European Commission today launched a public consultation on fake news and online disinformation and has set up an expert group comprising academics, online platforms, news media and civil society organisations. The work of the expert group and the results of the public consultation will contribu
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson will outline plans to stop prisoners conducting criminal activity from behind bars tomorrow.The Telecommunications Restrictions Orders (Custodial Institutions) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 will further strengthen action against the use of mobile phones including:
The Sheriff Appeal Court has overturned a decision to refuse sanction for the employment of counsel in a low value personal injury case. David Brown, represented by NewLaw Scotland pursued a claim for damages for whiplash injuries he sustained as a result of a road traffic accident. His claim was su
More than 60 members of the Egyptian Parliament have proposed a law that will criminalise same-sex sexual activity in the country for the first time. The draft law, the latest development since the Egyptian authorities launched an LGBTI-related crackdown after a rainbow flag was displayed at a conce
The Law Society of England and Wales has said courts should be allowed to recognise informal wills as an expression of people's final wishes. The society made the proposal in a submission to the Law Commission, which is currently concluding a consultation on will reform, the Law Society Gazette repo
Scotland is to become the only part of the UK with statutory targets to tackle child poverty after the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill was unanimously passed by the Scottish Parliament.The bill will:
Computers are being trained to solve problems by bingeing on episodes of a popular TV crime drama. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh mapped footage, script and background sounds from five seasons of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) into a machine-readable format. The data was fed into a com
Thompsons has promoted Seonaid Brophy (pictured right) from the union accident team and Jillian Merchant (pictured below) from the firm’s employment law department to associate level. Ms Brophy joined Thompsons in 2012 after completing the Diploma. She started her traineeship in the lung disease t
A sheriff principal has said he included future loss in the calculation of the success fee in his review of the civil litigation costs regime because to exclude it would, among other things, incentivise delay. Holyrood’s Justice Committee took evidence on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group P
The European Court of Human Rights will hear a landmark case on surveillance today as part of a challenge to the lawfulness of the UK’s surveillance laws and its intelligence agencies’ mass surveillance practices. The case, described by campaigners as a “watershed moment for people’s privacy
