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On Saturday, 18 November, Kirsty Malcolm KC of Westwater Advocates will be taking to the dance floor as part of the Just Dance for Maggie’s event, a ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ style competition. Trying to raise funds for Maggie’s Centres, and the Beatson cancer charity, she is t

Fewer cases should go to court without a definite trial date, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has said. Speaking before Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee, Ms Constance said, however, that banning floating trial dates entirely could actually increase delays in courts.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims decided there is unlawful, dismissing an appeal made against a previous decision to that effect. It had previously been held by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales that the poli

The Supreme Court has rejected the UK government's plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. A bench of five in the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ruling from the Court of Appeal that there was a real risk of deported refugees having their claims in Rwanda wrongly assessed or being returned to t

Children are still being detained at Dungavel immigration centre – despite the practice having been banned in 2010. Twenty-five young people have been detained in the centre since 2010, The Scotsman reports.

A pilot scheme introduced at three Scottish courts to improve the processing of summary crime has led to one third fewer police witnesses being cited in domestic abuse cases in its first 12 months. An interim report on the Summary Case Management pilot published today, reveals that key achievements

Britain’s equality watchdog has concluded a legal agreement with the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB), after the public body responsible for administering legal assistance in Scotland improved its equality practices. SLAB entered the agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Ju

An Edinburgh man who was the primary beneficiary under his late aunt’s will before she made a new one in favour of her brother, who had moved into her house against her wishes, has successfully challenged the validity of a 2019 will on the grounds of lack of testamentary capacity, facility and

The Scottish Public Law Group is hosting a seminar on “A New Frontier for Public Law: AI and Algorithmic Decision Making”. This hybrid event will take place both online and in person in the Court Senate Room (CL205), Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street, University of Strathclyde, Glasgo

A new report sets out Edinburgh Council’s understanding of the failures identified by Lord Hardie in delivery of the first phase of the tram project and how lessons learned can ensure future delivery of major infrastructure projects can avoid similar issues. It includes consideration of Lord H

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by a divorced father challenging a lord ordinary’s decision that he should pay for the totality of the school fees for three of his children to attend separate private schools up until the date he resigned from his employm

Over £20,000 was raised for anti-trafficking charities at the Tumbling Lassie Ball this year. The ball is organised by the Tumbling Lassie Appeal which is run by members of the Faculty of Advocates to raise funds for IJM (International Justice Mission) and SOHTIS (Survivors of Human Traffickin

A former community centre caretaker has been jailed for 10 years over a course of child sexual abuse undertaken while in a position of trust within his local community. Ronald McMillan, now 79, used his employment and links within the local community to target and abuse young boys both at Fauldhouse

Strathclyde Law School has announced the appointment of Professor Adelyn Wilson as its new head of school. Professor Wilson joins Strathclyde from Aberdeen University, where she held a personal chair and was the university’s dean for international stakeholder engagement. Her research interests

An appeal to the Court of Session against a decision that the tenant of a farm in Kelso did not breach his repairing obligations under his lease has been refused by the Inner House after finding that the Scottish Land Court had not erred in its construction of the contract. It was held by the Land C