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The many, and systematically horrible, events in the southern states of America over many years in the middle of the last century are described in Margaret Burnham’s new book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. The phrase ‘Jim Crow’ is an American shorthand for

A care home that was fined £100,000 after being found criminally responsible for the death of a resident from hypothermia after she became locked out of the building has lost an appeal against its sentence. St David’s Care Forfar Ltd pled guilty to a contravention of sections 3(1) and 33

Stronachs LLP has announced a number of promotions.

Duncan Hamilton KC and his brother David, a former chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, are driving a specially adapted vehicle to Ukraine where it will be used to support children traumatised by the ongoing war. Thousands of children are 'internally displaced' in Ukraine and many are traumat

A drinks reception to celebrate the achievements of Dame Margaret Kidd KC, as well as those of all other female members of the Scottish bar, will be hosted by the Faculty of Advocates in Parliament Hall later this month. Margaret Kidd was the first woman to call as an advocate in Scotland, in 1923.

The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) has launched an online charity auction to raise funds for Ukrainian lawyers in a difficult situation as a result of the war.

Digby Brown hosted another successful round of head injury information days (HiiD) in Edinburgh and Glasgow last month.

Gillespie Macandrew is to retain seven of its trainees as newly qualified solicitors. They will be joining the firm’s commercial property, dispute resolution, energy, family law, land & rural business and private client teams. Beth Hancock, Miles McKay, Fiona Reid, Rachael Burke, Alasdair

Advocates cannot act in the juryless trials pilot without the participation of solicitors, contrary to a rumour endorsed by politicians that betrays "complete ignorance" of the legal system, a senior lawyer has told Scottish Legal News. Vice-Dean of Faculty, Ronnie Renucci KC, said that, since

The next few months are set to see two important cases making their way through the Court of Session, both of which concern the meaning of sex within the Equality Act. The first is the appeal of Petition of for Women Scotland [2022] CSOH 90 and the decision of Lady Haldane that sex means sex as modi

The High Court of Justiciary has allowed the consideration of a late application to raise matters excluded by the “rape shield” provisions of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 after finding it was in the interest of justice to allow it. Appellant Edward Doran was indicted to a p

A new national strategy to help cut violent crime further has been published. Backed by more than £2 million of Scottish government investment this year, the Violence Prevention Framework is the first co-ordinated strategy for Scotland to tackle the issue.

A suspected drug dealer who jumped into a river to escape police was apprehended after slowly floating downstream for six hours. Michael Cortez, 31, jumped into the Cache la Poudre River in the US state of Colorado while pursued by police who identified him as a wanted man.

The Edinburgh office of Brodies LLP has won a regional award for best workplace fit-out from the British Council for Offices (BCO). The firm's offices, located in the top three floors of Capital Square, were singled out at the BCO's annual Scottish awards in Glasgow, which recognise projects that de

Scottish Legal News editor Kapil Summan speaks to historian and former Supreme Court justice, Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption, at his home in London. They discuss criminal reforms; the limits of law; the decline in legislative drafting in the UK; free speech and the need to stand up to the new cult