Colin Lancaster, chief executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board, details proposals delivered at Holyrood to improve the legal aid system. SLAB is one of a number of organisations to give evidence to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice (EHRCJ) Committee at its inquiry into the current civ
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An advocate from Kenya who represents victims of police brutality, and sexual and gender-based violence has won the Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award. Janice Muchemi received the award at an event hosted by the Faculty of Advocates in Parliament House in Edinburgh yesterday.
A lord ordinary has ruled that a decision of Glasgow City Council to award a four-year contract for homelessness assistance services to the Salvation Army, even though another charity scored higher in the bidding process, was lawfully taken after a challenge was mounted by the highest-scoring bidder
The EU’s sweeping reform of product liability law contrasts sharply with the UK’s more tentative approach, write Paola Sproul and Mark Gibson. The EU and the UK are undergoing significant overhauls of their product liability regimes, primarily driven by the need to address challenges pos
The Sheriff Appeal Court has by a 2-1 majority upheld the conviction of a man convicted of distracting a tractor driver with a laser beam after finding that the Crown had proved all the essentials of the statutory offence. Samuel Stewart was convicted of an offence under section 1(1) of the Laser Mi
The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen is a professional body of legal practitioners in Aberdeen and the northeast of Scotland, incorporated by three Royal Charters in 1774, 1799, and 1862. The Society’s roots date back to at least the 16th century, and historically it was responsible for the tr
New US tariffs (who knows where things will land) could well increase material costs and delay supply chains across the UK and Scottish construction sectors. Add to that investor uncertainty and currency fluctuations, and the risks are clear, writes Jennifer Young. Now’s the time to revisit co
The Inner House of the Court of Session has restored the decision of a children’s panel that determined that a father subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction for repeatedly raping his child’s mother was not a relevant person obliged to attend a children’s hearing in respect of
The owners of a Category A listed country house in Ayrshire have lost a judicial review challenge against a purported decision of a local authority that a 2004 grant of planning permission imposing conditions on the development of the estate remained extant after a lord ordinary ruled the letter all
As stage one of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill concludes at Holyrood, legal experts – Dr Mary Neal (Strathclyde), Dr Murray Earle (Edinburgh) and Dr Michael Foran (Glasgow) – raise concerns about the bill’s legislative competence, arguing that the bil
Alastair Gray knew rradar was a firm he wanted to join when he turned up for his interview to hear the strains of Get Down by the rapper Nas blasting through the open-plan office. He had, he says, “come to a crossroads” in his career. Hearing that music and seeing the ping-pong tables an
The relentless gang violence in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas has resulted in a brutal attack on childhood in Haiti, Amnesty International said in a new report. “I’m a child, why did this happen to me?”: Gangs’ assault on childhood in Haiti, documents how children are
Dr Morag Kerr, secretary-depute of Justice for Megrahi, replies to Ronnie Clancy KC's recent articles on Lockerbie and argues that despite the slur of 'conspiracy theorist' used by the UK and Scottish governments, the Crown Office, the SSCRC and the Americans, Mr Megrahi still suffered a miscarriage
Sheriff Simon Collins KC has issued his determination following a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths by suicide of Katie Allan and William Brown, which occurred at HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Polmont. Katie, 21, was found dead in her cell on 4 June 2018. William, 16, was found dead
