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Compass Chambers has announced that their 8th Annual Conference, taking place in Edinburgh next month, is now fully booked. The stable said the response to the conference had been "fantastic, with it being fully subscribed only days after being advertised".

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers The Law Society has responded to a Ministry of Justice consultation on proposals to close 91 courts and tribunals, which is one fifth of courts and tribunals across England and Wales, and integrate or merge 31 more.

A lawyer has attempted to bag a date with a woman by serving her with a subpoena.

Lord Menzies A campaigner who objected to a local authority’s decision to grant planning permission for two wind turbines near her home has had her appeal refused in the first case in which a council review body’s decision has been challenged in the Inner House of the Court of Session.

Lawyers acting for potential US presidential candidate Donald Trump's billion-dollar business conglomerate are bringing a legal challenge against Scottish government ministers to the Supreme Court today. Mr Trump is opposed to a two-year old decision to grant planning permission to an 11-turbine off

Pictured (l-r): Torquil MacLeod, Ian MacDonald, Angus MacLeod, George MacWilliam, Ian Donaldson

Alison Britton Drivers should be held criminally responsible for allowing others to smoke in cars with children present, the Law Society of Scotland has said.

Graham Ogilvy Preparations for next year's edition of Scottish Legal News Annual Review 2016 are now well underway.

Alan Delaney Alan Delaney of Maclay, Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) writes on recent announcements about parental leave for grandparents.

Mungo Bovey QC A panel of witnesses, including representatives of the Faculty of Advocates and Brodies LLP, has been thanked by MSPs for "saturating" them with information on human rights aspects of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.

Glen Gilson Law firm Gilson Gray LLP is celebrating its "date with George Clooney" as it gears up for the Scottish Business Awardsceremony on 12 November 2015.

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will host its annual Criminal Day Conference next month in association with the Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA). The one-day conference is taking place in the Corinthian, Glasgow on Saturday 7 November 2015.

Peter Gray QC Glasgow City Council spent almost £250,000 in legal fees over the course of the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the Glasgow bin lorry crash.

A championship-winning debate team from Harvard University was left humiliated after losing to a team of New York prison inmates. Three Harvard students faced down a team of three Clinton Correction Facility inmates in an hour-long debate last month.

A part-time judge who claimed that his pension should be calculated on the basis of his sitting days since he was appointed rather than the date on which an EU law protecting part-time-time workers from being treated less favourably than equivalent full-time workers came into force in the UK has had