The Scottish Parliament has agreed to consider amendments to the legislation that will incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law. The UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill requires Scotland’s public authorities to protect children’s rights in their decision-
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Skyrocketing cocaine exports are set to overtake oil as Colombia's main export, according to a new analysis. The country's oil exports dropped by nearly a third in the first half of the year while its cocaine exports are expected to outperform a record set in 2022, Bloomberg reports.
The widening reach of Scots family lawyers will be a key theme at CLT Scotland’s Family Law Conference taking place exclusively in-person on Monday 30 October at Murrayfield Stadium. Chaired by Marika Franceschi of Franceschi Family Law, topics to be covered will include the durability of agre
Consumers must be protected from the risks posed by unregulated legal services such as will writing and online divorces, the Law Society of Scotland has told the UK’s competition regulator. The Law Society has submitted evidence on the need for enhanced consumer protection to an investigation
An advocate has called on Holyrood to honour a campaigner for his "tireless efforts" to obtain justice for the thousands of UK nuclear test veterans and their genetically impaired and deformed children. In an open letter to First Minister Humza Yousaf, Ian Anderson requests that the Scottish Parliam
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Laos deports human rights lawyer who was fleeing state pressure back to China | The Independent
A lord ordinary has refused a petition for judicial review by a pharmacy business seeking to reduce a rejected appeal against a decision of Ayrshire and Arran Health Board to allow a new pharmacist to operate in the village of Monkton. Burns Pharmacy Ltd, which serviced Monkton from a location in Pr
A new trusts and succession law is very welcome, but the new bill must be robust enough to stand the test of time. That is the view of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee, which has today published its stage 1 report on the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Bill.
Edinburgh Law School has announced the passing of professor emeritus Alan Boyle. He was professor of public international law at Edinburgh Law School from 1995 until 2017, where he taught international law, international environmental law, and law of the sea.
Police are investigating the unusual theft of 14 beehives from an apiary in north Wales. Beekeepers were last month urged to keep a look out for the missing bees, with police suggesting the thief or thieves would "clearly... have some knowledge about beekeeping".
Establishing and implementing good governance is the primary challenge faced by businesses in deploying AI technology, according to a new report from DLA Piper. The comprehensive research-led report, titled AI Governance: Balancing Policy, Compliance, and Commercial Value, delves into the critical
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an appeal by the Greater Glasgow Health Board against a decision that it had unfairly dismissed a hospital supervisor after finding that the Employment Tribunal had reached an erroneous conclusion on the facts. Stephen Mullen was awarded over £9,000 by
July 2023 saw the publication of a new historical study touching on the relationship between Scotland and slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the form of Richard Blake's Sugar, Slaves and High Society - The Grants of Kilgraston, 1750-1860. A beautifully and extensively illustrated
The UK violated the privacy rights of two people whose communications were intercepted and accessed in the UK, despite them both being non-UK nationals living outside of UK borders, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. US national Joshua Wieder and Italian national Claudio Guarnieri, both r
An appeal against conviction by a man sentenced to 27 months' imprisonment for sexually assaulting his daughter over a period of six years and later assaulting one of her friends several years later at a house party has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued on behalf of the app
