Search: https://www.galaxus.ch/en/sector/showdiscussion/snaphack-v3-visit-kunghaccom-q7pa26us-222712

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will host its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 1 June 2017 at 29, 29 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow commencing at 6pm. At the AGM the president will report on the year's activities and the treasurer will present accounts. Any amendments to the constit

Solicitors and members of the public are being encouraged to submit their views on hate crime legislation in Scotland. Lord Bracadale, who was appointed in January this year by the Scottish government to conduct an independent review of hate crime legislation, has invited members of the legal profes

Final-year law students from the University of Dundee will represent Scotland at a prestigious international law moot at The Hague later this month.

Staff at Thorntons Law have raised more than £27,000 for charity over the past five years, The Courier reports. The firm has taken part in the Dragons' Glen challenge since 2012, which challenges businesses to create a product and establish a business for just £500, and then generate as much profi

Tuesday 9 May, 17:30 – 19:30 Our Open Evening gives you the opportunity to learn more about the LLM courses on offer at Strathclyde Law School.

A majority of members on Holyrood’s Justice Committee have backed the Scottish government’s plan to integrate the British Transport Police (BTP) in Scotland into Police Scotland. The committee’s recommendations focus on ensuring that should integration go ahead, there is a seamless transfer of

The death has been announced of the Rt Hon Lord Kirkwood, who served as a judge from 1987 until his retirement in 2005. He was 84. Ian Candlish Kirkwood joined the Faculty of Advocates in 1957, after graduating at the universities of Edinburgh and Michigan. He took silk in 1970. He was also a former

Scotland’s prosecution service has been asked to “reflect further” on the views of some criminal lawyers that a policy on prosecuting domestic abuse cases is being applied high-handedly. Holyrood's Justice Committee has today published a report following its inquiry into the Crown Office and P

A QC who served the Faculty of Advocates in two office-bearer posts has been installed as a Senator of the College of Justice. Alan Summers took the judicial title of Lord Summers at the ceremony in the First Division courtroom in Parliament House.

Members of the public will have the chance to make their voices heard on the transformation of Scotland’s summary justice system at a meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday 25 April. The meeting, from 4:30 to 6pm at the Apex Hotel in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, is the first of a number of roadshows being

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has raised serious concerns over the safety of inmates and staff in prisons in England. The CPT's report following a UK visit last Spring notes prison violence spiralling out of

The title of this book refers to an incident in April 1945. In response to the denial by SS Guards that there were any Anglo-American prisoners being held at Ravensbrück concentration camp, Mary Lindell, the subject of what might be loosely termed a biography, bravely stepped forward and produced a

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee has endorsed the general principles of the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) Bill, but states that some aspects of the bill need further consideration to ensure the right balance is struck. The committee has endorsed the principle of removing the time bar for

The author of this article is a solicitor in private practice and due to the nature of this topic has chosen to remain anonymous. Any thoughts, views or opinions expressed in this article belong solely to the author. The phrase “so-called” is used to describe something that is purported to be so

Some 70 advocates will be “staying ahead of the curve” when important changes to the criminal law are analysed at the Scottish Criminal Bar Association’s Spring Conference. The event, in Stirling on Friday and Saturday this week, is to focus on vulnerable witnesses, including vulnerable accuse