Last week was not a good week for the Faculty of Advocates. The findings of an internal disciplinary hearing provoked Rape Crisis Scotland to allege that there existed "a culture of misogyny amongst some members of the Faculty of Advocates and lay bare an environment where entitled, arrogant attitud
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At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Fairley sentenced Brandon Boyd to six years and 10 months and Connor Clark to eight years' imprisonment after the offenders pleaded guilty to hamesucken and robbery. On sentencing Lord Fairley made the statement below in court. On the evening of 13 June 2019, Marga
Rosie Walker, head of litigation and partner at Gilson Gray, didn't see law as a particularly accessible career when she was younger, and instead decided to study politics and history at the University of Edinburgh. But while she was a student, she says she realised the importance of law in society
Jan Machielsen, senior lecturer in early modern history at Cardiff University, takes a critical look at Nicola Sturgeon's recent apology to those accused of witchcraft. On International Women’s Day this year, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised at Holyrood to
Melanie Phillips may not be everyone’s favourite journalist or radio opinion former but who could fail to share her astonishment in The Times at the outcome of one of the greatest corporate injustices of our time? Inexplicably, no-one, it seems, was responsible for the relentless persecution a
David Conlan Smyth SC, Anna Bazarchina BL, William Morrin BL and Patrick Fitzgerald BL – members of the EU Bar Association of Ireland – unpick the legal hurdles and steps involved in Ukraine becoming a member state of the European Union. On 28 February 2022, just four days after being in
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has allowed a minute permitting the employer of two of the administrators for Rangers FC to use material from an action for damages by one employee in its own court action against the Lord Advocate. Duff and Phelps Ltd raised the minute in the malic
And so the time has come to talk of David and Henry, and the crimes of which they stand accused. In David Hume’s case sentence has already been passed, his name now severed from the largest post-war building on Edinburgh University’s principal campus. Given that he had fixed ideas on bea
When Scotland’s most senior judge and his colleagues oppose the suggested reforms to the legal profession and when he is joined in opposition by both the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and the President of the Law Society of Scotland, on behalf of their respective bodies, some might be conce
Editor's note: All animals are cancellable, but some are more cancellable than others. That is the inference to be drawn from the manner in which we pick and choose history's villains. David Hume is out but Marie Stopes, eugenicist and admirer of Adolf Hitler, is apparently in. Edinburgh Council has
In a recent landmark decision, the English High Court allowed the claimant’s personal injury case against her mother’s GP on the basis that the claimant’s disability had been caused by negligent advice to her mother pre-conception, writes Klaudia Wasilewska. It is a well-establishe
As one of Scotland’s busiest trial counsel, Thomas Leonard Ross QC is well-known for passionately fighting for justice – in the courtroom and out of it. Most recently he has been a vocal opponent of the proposal that the historical right to trial by jury be removed where serious sexual o
A former council electrician who was exposed to asbestos in the 1980s has been granted permission to proceed with an action for damages against the successor council to his previous employer. It was argued by John Kelman that he was not aware that his condition was sufficiently serious as to justify
What is admissible in evidence in our ongoing trial of the past? The Arab slave trade? Modern slavery across Asia? Or are rules and consistency passé? Does Lady Justice need scales or will the sword suffice? Edinburgh Council, for example, remains coy about its plaque in Abercromby Place that
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled that an action seeking over £72 million in damages relating to defects in the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow is competent in spite of a contractual provision requiring disputes to be referred to adjudication.
