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New legislation increasing animal cruelty penalties and improving powers for front-line enforcement agencies has been published. The Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Bill will increase the maximum penalties for the most serious animal welfare and wildlife offences

Caroline Gillespie reflects on the development of the law on domestic abuse as new legislation comes into force today. Today, the law on domestic abuse changes in Scotland. The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 is now in force, creating a new crime of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour

A public education campaign aims to help a new law making psychological or emotional maltreatment a form of domestic abuse in Scotland. The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 creates a new offence of “abusive behaviour in relation to a partner or ex-partner” where physical and sexual vio

The departure of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III from the position of US Attorney General would normally be a matter for celebration. His appalling track record is everything you might expect from an Alabama lawyer named in honour of two Confederate heroes. But he did at least have the s

A programme intended to change the behaviour of domestic abuse perpetrators is being rolled out to six more local authorities. The Caledonian System is a court-mandated scheme to combat domestic abuse through the rehabilitation of male perpetrators and "works to improve the lives of the women a

Graham Ogilvy SLN editor Graham Ogilvy ponders the seemingly intractable problems in recruiting new judges to the Scottish judiciary.

Lord Carloway SLN’s report earlier this year that Scotland’s judiciary is facing a recruitment crisis has been confirmed in a survey which found that 60 per cent of senior lawyers had no interest in joining the bench.

Aretha Franklin I was 18 when I went to Auschwitz. My school chum Eamonn Kelly and I got a train to Warsaw and then down to Krakow. 1975 – height of the Cold War. Mad, I know. How we were allowed to go remains a mystery to me.

Less than a month after a warning by Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, that the English legal system was facing a ‘ticking time bomb’ in its failure to recruit judges, Scottish Legal News can reveal that Scotland too is facing such a crisis with top qu

Mary Sharpe A charity founded by an advocate has published a paper on the effects of compulsive internet pornography use.

Rob Marrs Rob Marrs, head of education at the Law Society of Scotland, discusses the rarely addressed question of gender equality in the legal profession – for men.

Lord Gill Lord Gill who retired as Lord President of the Court of Session in the summer, yesterday challenged Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee on three separate occasions to make a public declaration of its confidence in the honour and integrity of the Scottish judiciary.

Two Celtic supporters who claimed their human rights had been breached after they were convicted under legislation designed to tackle football-related sectarianism for singing a pro-IRA and INLA song during a match have lost their appeal. The Criminal Appeal Court was asked to consider whether the a

SCBA members celebrate International Women’s Day at Edinburgh High Court

Northern Ireland barrister James Stitt examines a Scottish case with significance for clinical negligence practitioners. Once more, a Scottish case has provided an opportunity for a substantial development of the law in the field of clinical negligence.