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Miners wrongly sacked and convicted in the 1980s because of "trumped up" police charges should be compensated, Scottish ministers have been told. An inquiry led by John Scott QC has submitted its recommendations to the Scottish government, The Times reports.

The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland have welcomed the Scottish government's proposed changes to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill, made in Parliament yesterday. The proposed amendments, if agreed to by Parliament, would mean a conviction for new offences of "s

A full obituary of long-standing Scottish legislative drafter John McCluskie QC has been published by The Times. Mr McCluskie was the first solicitor employed by the Lord Advocate's department in London in 1972. Later, as an advocate, he became head of the department.

A Scottish judge will preside in the trial of Félicien Kabuga over his alleged involvement in the Rwandan genocide. Lord Bonomy, the UK's judge on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, was assigned by Judge Carmel Agius and will sit with Judge Graciela Su

Solicitor, chartered accountant and property entrepreneur David Lockhart has died. Mr Lockhart led Scottish company Halladale to the stock market before selling it and setting up real estate investment trust NewRiver REIT.

Three new videos will present short biographies of inspiring women in the Scottish legal profession. President of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland, Laura Dunlop QC, will feature in the first in the series of short films produced by Ashurst Women's Network, in collaboration with First 100 Year

A judge of the European Court of Human Rights is to deliver this year's Macfadyen Lecture virtually.  The Scottish Council of Law Reporting has arranged for Judge Tim Eicke to deliver his lecture from Strasbourg at 6:00pm on Thursday 5 November.

The Foreign Secretary has refused to assist a Police Scotland investigation into the use of Scottish airports to facilitate rendition and torture. Dominic Raab ruled out asking the US government to release evidence held in the unredacted version of a Senate investigation into the CIA’s to

An organisation seeking judicial review of the Scottish ministers' definition of "woman" in an act has been granted permission to proceed by the Court of Session. For Women Scotland is challenging ministers over the definition of "woman" in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2

Thorntons' Gurjit Pall has urged Scottish businesses to apply for a Home Office sponsor licence as the Brexit transition period draws to a close – to ensure they can still access the best overseas talent. “With the new rules looming, employers should consider applying for a sponsor

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed new figures that show that Scottish prisons are overflowing with prisoners being offered next to no opportunity to leave their cells, as they called on the Scottish government to “stop dancing around the edges of this crisis”. Parliamenta

In the thirtieth article in Scottish Legal News' jurisprudential primer series, Benjamin Bestgen takes a look at fictional legal systems. See his last entry here. Early readers of this series may recall my article about depictions of law in utopian fiction. What stood out was that utopian write

Andrew Stevenson, Secretary of the Scottish Law Agents Society (SLAS) criticises attacks on “leftie lawyers” made by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel at this year’s Conservative Party Conference. Human rights are not an academic’s plaything or a means of chicanery or obstruction

Dr Thomas Muinzer details the work of the Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network this year. Since its inaugural meeting at the Legal Services Agency, Glasgow, on January 20 at the beginning of this year, the Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network (SCELN) has been meeting on a regular basis, enga

The Scottish team at Clyde & Co has raised over £8,000 for local charity Cash for Kids as part of Radio Forth's 5k-a-day challenge. The Boogie 5k-a-day Challenge encouraged participants to run, walk or cycle five kilometres per day for the entire month while raising sponsorship funds from