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Gillian Craig looks at the risk attaching to ownership in an imperfect registration system. It’s not often that the Daily Mail reports on boundary issues in Edinburgh but the plight of homeowners, some of whom are on limited incomes, being landed with a £600,000 bill (or £6,000 eac

Mike Kemp

The Lord Advocate’s appeal to the Supreme Court that the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary determined a devolution issue in a case involving the extradition of a man convicted of crimes in Taiwan has been unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court who also found that the Appea

A Holyrood committee has taken evidence on the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009 in its penultimate evidence session. The Local Government and Communities Committee has been undertaking post-legislative scrutiny of the act to determine how well it is working.

The Crown has successfully challenged a judge’s decision that an admission made by a mother accused of assaulting her child during a conversation with a social worker in hospital was “inadmissible”. The Criminal Appeal Court allowed the appeal after ruling that the evidential hearing judge “

Stephen Gold As someone brought up with very little money, whose life has been enhanced beyond measure by education, news of further decline in the literacy and numeracy of Scotland’s children feels very personal to me. But at least social attitudes have much improved since I was a child.

Willie McIntyre The eighth book in Willie McIntyre’s Best Defence series, Good News Bad News, is released today ahead of a launch party on May 5.

The annual derby match between Robert Gordon University (RGU) and the University of Aberdeen this week saw law students pit their wits against each other in the library of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. The student rivals engaged in a lively legal debate in front of Sheriff JA Brown and acade

A proposal that solicitors should be required to conduct a minimum number of criminal cases in any one practising certificate year has been criticised by the official body for solicitor advocates. The Scottish Legal Aid Board's Criminal Code of Practice consultation asks whether solicitors providing

5-8 April 2017 Strathclyde Law School, home to the UK’s leading Postgraduate programme in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, has been invited to host the 16th annual INADR International Law Student Mediation Tournament. The Tournament will bring law students from all over the world to Glasgow, und

Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC ICAS has announced that Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC has been appointed chair of its Discipline Board.

A former priest has been ordered to pay his brother-in-law more than £140,000 in damages from his late father’s estate following a family dispute over the lease of a fish and chip shop. John Gray was awarded damages for loss of profits in his action against Father Roderick MacNeil, after the Sher

As former newspaper journalists, we take no delight in the continuing decline of the printed media in Scotland. But it is important to highlight last month’s disastrous ABC circulation figures for both The Herald and The Scotsman. For the first time, The Scotsman fell below 20,000 (including free

Eric McQueen

Lord Keen of Elie QC The Advocate General, Lord Keen of Elie QC, 62, has been charged with a firearms offence for allegedly breaching the Firearms Act 1968 s.2 after he failed to secure a shotgun.