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The first round of a national school debating tournament has kicked off, with students across Scotland debating whether zoos should remain open. In the 25th year of the Law Society of Scotland’s Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, the first round debates saw the motion “This house

The Scottish Prison Service's waiting list for sexual offending rehabilitation programmes would take 14 years to clear, according to new figures. The SPS was urged by Emma Jardine, policy and public affairs manager at Howard League Scotland, to increase the transparency over access to such schemes.

Legislation to help reduce the high prison population has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Bill will change the release point for offenders serving sentences of less than four years from 50 per cent of their sentence to 40 per cent. There will be no ch

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has reported challenges with accessing human rights to health, housing, and food across the Highlands and Islands. Critical issues include an apparent failure to meet the most basic international obligations related to the right to health, the right to housing an

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been excoriated as "incompetent at best, dishonest at worst" in a new report from MPs and peers. The culmination of a three-year inquiry involving testimony from 175 individuals, the report highlights the FCA's failure to protect consumers and small business

The lack of criminal court sitting days has piled pressure on the justice system, Lady Chief Justice Dame Sue Carr has told MPs. She said that a decision to prevent crown courts from operating at full capacity has only increased case backlogs.

The FCA has fined Barclays £40 million in total for its failure to disclose certain arrangements with Qatari entities in 2008. This follows Barclays' decision to withdraw its referral of the FCA's planned action to the Upper Tribunal. The action was based on findings which included that Barcla

The father of a 14-year old child who was sentenced to an order for lifelong restriction for offences against the child’s mother has successfully petitioned the Court of Session for review of a decision taken at a children’s hearing that he was not a relevant person able to participate i

An online system to assist trainees and junior solicitors in drafting legal correspondence has won the Law Society of Scotland’s 2024 Innovation Cup. The judges selected Andrew Logue – an Aberdeen-based associate with Clyde & Co – for his proposed tool to facilitate collaborati

It is no longer a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York. The state has repealed an adultery law dating back to 1907, which said it was a crime where a person "engages in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse".

In part two of his series on dysfunction in our health system, David J Black reminds us that the cost of bad medicine is people's lives. Read part one here. It is one of those facts which cries out to be universally acknowledged: when it came to understanding the nature of such illnesses as ME/CFS,

The average price of a property in Scotland in September 2024 was £198,000, an increase of 5.7 per cent when compared to September 2023, according to the latest figures from Registers of Scotland (RoS). Compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland fell by 0.9 per cent on a non-se

The recent IPEC judgment of WaterRower is not only a fascinating discussion of what works of craftsmanship can be considered ‘artistic’ enough to gain copyright protection in the UK, it could spark a move away from the more expansive European test for copyright protection, write Andrew M