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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC will deliver this year's James Wood lecture on the topic of the prosecution of sexual offences. The James Wood Lecture is the principal public lecture hosted annually by the University of Glasgow School of Law, having first been delivered by Lord Fraser of Tullybelton i

A man who caused a woman to suffer life-changing injuries after crashing into a car at high speed has been imprisoned for three years. The 27-year-old woman was left paralysed from the neck down after the Ford Fiesta she was travelling in was struck from behind by Gavin Coull’s BMW on the sout

Digby Brown won the litigation team of the year prize at the Scottish Legal Awards.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Lebanon explosions ‘almost certainly criminal’, says human rights lawyer | Channel 4 News

Lindsays has appointed Lisa Mannion as a senior associate in its residential property team in Dundee. A graduate of the University of Dundee, she has spent the past 11 years working in the city, previously with Thorntons.

A zoo in China has admitted painting dogs to look like pandas. The zoo in southern Guangdong province described the animals as "panda dogs" after a viral video showed the animals panting and barking in their enclosure.

The Scottish Solicitors’ Bar Association recently conducted a survey of its members that found that despite the solicitor profession now being majority female, 70 per cent of SSBA members are male, less than two per cent identify as BAME and only three per cent are members of the LGBTQ+ commun

Last night saw Samantha (Sammi) Mackie, a senior associate in the employment team at Shoosmiths in Scotland, named Rising Star of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards in Glasgow. Based in the Edinburgh office, she is a specialist in employment and discrimination law with maintained experience in im

The Glasgow Conveyancers Forum is to host a seminar on the new Scottish Standard Clauses Edition 6. It will be presented by speaker Struan Ferguson Thursday 26 September at 5.30 pm at the RFPG Hall. Mr Ferguson is the chair of the Scottish Conveyancers Forum, which is responsible for updating the SS

Historian Susie Deedigan reviews a new book on the Irish men and women who fought against Nazi occupation in Europe. Janie McCarthy, a teacher from Killarney and somewhat unlikely résistante, is the first in the cast of fascinating characters whose stories are skillfully woven together in Clo

A case management initiative introduced at several courts has the potential to transform summary justice across Scotland, bringing early resolution for victims and witnesses, a reduction in police officers attending court, and a substantial decrease in case backlogs, a report has found. The Summary

A woman has been refused permission to appeal against a decision of the Upper Tribunal upholding a decision not to award her additional child maintenance from her ex-partner after a judge in the Inner House of the Court of Session found there to be no error of law capable of forming the subject of a