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Best-selling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has backed a major new campaign by Shelter Scotland which aims to secure the legal right to a decent home for everyone in the country. Launched today, the campaign follows research conducted by YouGov for the charity that found that 88 per cent of peop

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is to lead a working group on the possibility of creating a new offence of misogynistic harassment in Scots law. The working group was requested by women's organisations include Engender and Scottish Women’s Aid.

Iain Drummond and Lindsay Robinson comment on impending changes to the prescription regime. Prescription is the legal rule in Scotland that prevents a person from pursuing their legal rights to a claim after a certain time period has elapsed (the equivalent in England is limitation). A claim ‘

Hot on the heels of the Wagatha Christie saga which brought defamation arising from social media into the minds of many, new legislation which reforms the law of defamation in Scotland came into force on 8 August. Baktosch Gillan and Mike Kemp explain the details. Prior to the Defamation and Ma

The Law Society of Scotland has launched its new five-year strategy, underpinning its commitment to a "thriving, diverse and sustainable" legal sector to support Scottish communities and businesses. The new document outlines the society’s key priorities and strategic objectives, covering both

A landmark legal ruling which has been pivotal in shaping and safeguarding the Harris Tweed industry celebrated its 60th anniversary recently. The authority’s legal advisor Colin Hulme summarises the importance of the case and ruling. The name “Harris Tweed” can only be used t

The slightly weary thought on seeing another new book on Mary Queen of Scots has already been suggested in Scottish Legal News. Deciding whether there are too many books on this particular Queen must depend of course on what the latest author has to say, given the very many others in or out of print

A sheriff’s decision to discharge a man who was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant after ruling that the crime narrated was not an offence in Scots law has been overturned following an appeal. Miroslaw Lisek was convicted of stealing sewing machines after failing to return the items, which had

Practical politics is giving way to legal theory “and not the other way around” in the ongoing Brexit saga, a Scots lawyer has told an audience in New York. Addressing an event hosted by the Scottish Bar Association of New York (ScotBarNY) at Nixon Peabody LLP last month, Burness Pa

What would the Kindly Tenants of Lochmaben make of it all? Our survey to find Scotland’s favourite Scots law expression has turned into the biggest bourach since the violation of the sepulchres after our well-read readers engaged in spirited Twitter discussions that highlighted even more wond

The initial thought on seeing this book for the first time might be for many readers to wonder why there should be another on the same person and the religious and political topics of late-Renaissance Scotland. The author herself suggests the point in her list of further reading with the comment tha

When a defect becomes apparent in a building or structure, how long does the owner have to make a claim? Kathryn Kelly explains more. In Scotland, defects claims have to be made within five years. Time starts to run when loss, injury and damage occurs (section 11(1) of the Prescription and Limi

A Scots lawyer who delayed administering the estate of a deceased client of his firm after having failed to make proper attempts to contact the beneficiary has been fined £5,000. Gary Pirrie, 50, was found guilty of “professional misconduct” by the Scottish Solicitors’ D

A Scots lawyer who claimed that the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission acted “ultra vires” in unilaterally raising a complaint against him for has successfully challenged the decision. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the watchdog, which decided ex proprio motu to make a comp

A man who claimed that a Scots lawyer who acted for his wife in a divorce action marketed the estranged couple’s property for sale without his consent has failed in an appeal against a tribunal’s decision to dismiss his complaint against the solicitor. The Inner House of the Court of Session rul