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Gordon Jackson QC Gordon Jackson QC has joined Brian McConnachie QC in responding to the Lord President, Lord Carloway’s criticism of defence lawyers in sexual offence trials.

A company has been held vicariously liable for the actions of an employee at its petrol station who made an unprovoked attack on a customer after the Supreme Court said the “close connection” test was satisfied. The court, comprising Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Dyson, Lord Reed and Lord Toul

Shami Chakrabarti Police will be able to hack electronic devices in order to access users’ web browsing history under the revised Investigatory Powers Bill.

(L-R): David Coutts, Janice Jones and Jennifer Wilkie

The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association (SYLA) has welcomed the news that the Law Society of Scotland has agreed an increase to both its recommended and mandatory minimum pay rates for trainee solicitors. The Law Society’s Council agreed that, from April 2016, only trainee contracts that are at

Sheenagh Adams Registers of Scotland (RoS) will start to move land and property titles from the deeds-based General Register of Sasines onto the map-based Land Register later this year.

The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has announced that councils across Scotland will be able to raise the council tax levy by up to 3 per cent from April 2017, following a nine-year cap on rates. While those living in bands A to D will be unaffected by the change, those in E to H bands will see the

Donald MacKinnon Donald MacKinnon discusses the possible effects of Brexit on employment law and health & safety regulations.

Andrew Flanagan Police Scotland’s watchdog has called for whistleblowing procedures in the force to be improved so officers can bring complaints related to internal affairs.

Police in Vermont discovered dozens of marijuana plants after an eight-year-old boy allegedly admitted helping his mother's boyfriend grow "special medicine", The Barr Montpelier Times-Argus reports. The child told school officials - and later police - that his mother's partner grew "special medicin

Lord Carloway A sales executive who was convicted of embezzling more than £8,000 from his employers has failed in an appeal against conviction despite that fact a sheriff made no finding in fact of “dishonest appropriation” of the cash.

The relationship necessary to give rise to vicarious liability in tort subsisted between a prison service and a prisoner performing work who accidentally injured a catering manager, the Supreme Court has ruled. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Dyson, Lord Reed and Lord Toulson unanimously dismissed t

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled the article 6 right to a fair trial of a German man was not violated after he complained that evidence found coincidentally during an unlawful house search had been admitted in criminal proceedings against him. The applicant, Hans-Otto Prade, is a

One of the judges who presided over the Lockerbie trial, the Rt Hon Lord Coulsfield, has died, aged 81. As John Taylor Cameron, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1960, and took silk in 1973. He served as Keeper of the Library from 1977 to 1987.

Carole Ewart The Jimmy Reid Foundation has published a new policy paper on why Scotland must do better to respect, protect and fulfil human rights across devolved functions.