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With less than a week to go, time is running out for any delegates who have not yet registered for the Scots Law 2016. Conference/Exhibition which will take place at the Glasgow Hilton on 20th & 21st June.

Independence campaigners have told a judge in the Court of Session they asked 144 solicitors to take their case one – but were unanimously rejected. The group, which has set up a camp on the grounds of the Scottish Parliament was in court to give an update on whether it had found representation to

Jonathan Cooper The number of reported court cases involving privacy arguments has doubled in the last five years to a new high of 58 per year, according to Thomson Reuters.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled the UK’s policy requiring recipients of child benefit and child tax credit to have a right to reside in the UK, while indirectly discriminatory, is justified by the need to protect the finances of the host member state. The regulation on the coo

A sheriff has slammed police who offered a man a fixed penalty fine for an imprisonable offence after he caused disturbance in a hospital. Brian Halliburton, of Dundee, followed staff around Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, filming them and claiming that they were “neglecting patients”. When asked

Roddy Dunlop The election for the new Dean of the Faculty of Advocates is shaping to be a three-way contest between Roddy Dunlop QC, Peter Gray, QC, and Gordon Jackson QC.

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the appeal of an unfairly dismissed fingerprint officer involved in the McKie scandal, finding that the original Employment Tribunal’s (ET) interpretation of the relevant legislation leading to a reinstatement order was sound. Lord Hodge, with whom Lady Ha

The man found guilty of the “limbs in the loch” murder has had a claim for damages refused after his confidential correspondence was opened by prison officers. William Beggs was seeking £5,000 compensation after a judge had ruled that his human rights were breached in jail when “privileged”

Calum MacNeill QC Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC represented fingerprint officer Fiona McBride in the Supreme Court in a successful bid to restore the decision of an Employment Tribunal to order her employers, the Scottish Police Services Authority (now the Scottish Police Authority), to r

Ahead of next week's Brexit referendum, Scottish lawyers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Britain remaining in the EU. Of the 528 respondents in a poll conducted by Scottish Legal News, the daily news service for Scotland's lawyers, 78 per cent voted in favour of Remain and only 22 per cent in

Judith Robertson The has submitted a report to the United Nations (UN) setting out ways in which people in Scotland’s economic, social and cultural rights are not being met. The report has been submitted as part of a review taking place this week in Geneva, by the UN Committee for the Internationa

Grant Markie

Isobel d’Inverno House sales in Scotland have seen a significant boost thanks to a new property tax.

Michael Matheson Communities will “see real benefits” in their local areas from an increase in community sentences the Scottish government claimed after announcing £4 million extra funding for the scheme.

Kennedys has continued its growth in Scotland with its relocation to a new office in Edinburgh.