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Dear Editor, The article Man Sentenced for Salmon Poaching brought a memory back from the distant past. In the 1980s I found myself working in Selkirk and appearing in the sheriff court there every week.

A recent decision by the Inner House of the Court of Session held that Scottish courts have the ability to grant protective orders against an employer’s assets even where claims have been brought against them in an Employment Tribunal, write Eleanor Mannion and Laurie Anderson. The Case

A young clarinet player has been awarded over £200,000 in damages after suing his ex-girlfriend for sabotaging his scholarship. Eric Abramovitz was offered a full scholarship from Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, worth about £38,000 a year, but the email was intercepted by h

A lawyer and former educator has said reusing old questions in a bar exam is “not a big deal”. Antonio La Viña, a former dean at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines made the comments after it emerged that the 2017 bar exams used questions from previous years’ tests.

A group of Czech tourists have been arrested in Kazakhstan for wearing the immodest "mankini" popularised by Sacha Baron Cohen's film character, Borat. Six tourists posed for photos in the swimsuits in the Kazakh capital, Astana, last week.

An upswing in divorce petitions in one part of Indonesia is being blamed on pigeon racing. An official at the Purbalingga Religious Court in Central Java Province said the office had received 90 divorce petitions in July, the Jakarta Post reports.

Willie McIntyre We all know that there is a presumption against the imposition of prison sentences, but these days it’s difficult for solicitors, never mind their clients, to access the jail.

Susie Mountain takes a look at a new report on cohabitation. The Scottish Law Commission has published its Report on Cohabitation. The report considers how the existing law governing the rights of cohabitants on separation might be revised and follows a lengthy consultation process with solicitors,

Lauren Rae and Ryan McCuaig outline the coming defamation regime and its advantages. The Scottish Parliament recently passed the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill which will introduce the most significant changes to the law of defamation in recent history. The new law has yet to c

Taiwanese officials are calling on people to stop changing their name to Salmon. The situation, dubbed "salmon chaos" by local media came about after Japanese chain Sushiro ran a promotion which ended on Thursday offering free food to any customer and five of their friends – if they changed th

A mayor has mocked a fine imposed on authorities for appointing too many women. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was told she had broken the law by naming too many women to various posts.

Paul Motion Paul Motion considers the new law on unjustified threats in relation to intellectual property actions.

In a bizarre mix-up a court in Egypt sentenced a four year old boy to life in prison on a number of charges – including murder. Ahmed Mansour Karni was handed the term after being sentenced in absentia for offences he allegedly committed two years ago – when he was two.

Almira Delibegović-Broome KC reflects on how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education helped her. I applied to the Clark Foundation in 1995, to cover my diploma in legal practice tuition fees at Edinburgh University. At that time, I was still an asylum seeker, having arrived to Scotland in 199