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This year's annual JUSTICE Scotland Human Rights Lecture is taking place in person at 6:30pm on 4 May 2022, at the Signet Library in Edinburgh. This year's lecture is entitled "A light in the North? Reflections on the work of the Scottish National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership", and will be
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A former prison has found new life as a legal cannabis farm. What used to be Claremont Custody Centre in California is now a bustling business, with cannabis growing in the garden while staff make edibles in the kitchen and assemble pre-rolled joints in the mess hall.
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An online casino has been fined £1.2 million by the Gambling Commission after sending a promotional offer to more than 40,000 customers who had asked to be self-excluded to help them stop gambling. Sky Vegas sent the "Bet £5 get 100 free spins" offer to 41,395 customers who had self-excl
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Three former US police officers have been convicted of violating the civil rights of George Floyd by failing to prevent his murder by their colleague. Mr Floyd's murder by Derek Chauvin, who knelt on him for more than nine minutes, sparked worldwide Black Lives Matter protests. Mr Chauvin was convic
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Dr Aurel Sari, director of the University of Exeter’s Centre for International Law and fellow of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and Allied Rapid Reaction Corps comments on the legal aspects of the invasion of Ukraine. Much about Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is unclear,
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Legal restrictions imposed due to the pandemic are to be lifted next month. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the details of the updated strategic framework to manage Covid-19 primarily through public health advice, vaccination, and treatment rather than legal restrictions.
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Boyd Legal has acquired the clients of Musselburgh firm Somerville & Russell, which has closed after more than 30 years of operating in the town. The closure of the firm's Bridge Street premises resulted in a number of redundancies.
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Julian Assange should be taken out of prison and placed under house arrest, according to a United Nations expert. Mr Assange has been held at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London since his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy in April 2019, where he had spent seven years in order to avoid extradition.
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Digby Brown Solicitors has confirmed every staff member can now take one day off for charity work. As the personal injury firm has 285 employees it means as many as 285 days can be used to help good causes.
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The Edinburgh Foundation for Women in Law is hosting a series of virtual book discussions – the EFWiL Shelf Indulgence book club.
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Faculty members have elected Neil Mackenzie QC as the new Keeper of the Advocates Library. Mr Mackenzie was director of training and education at Faculty between December 2017 and June 2021. During this period he built on the strengths of the existing devils’ training programme and devised and
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To those of us who dealt daily with the law of prejudice to criminal court proceedings, the claim by the Metropolitan Police force that the publication of the Sue Gray Report might prejudice their criminal inquiry into alleged breaches of the Covid Regulations is surprising, to say the least. The pr
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang detained for ‘inciting state subversion’ | Hong Kong Free Press
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Pro-Palestinian lawyers will next week host an online event to help lawyers and law students navigate apartheid-related issues in the UK courts, including in asylum, defamation and discrimination cases. Mira Hammad, a barrister in England and Wales, and Rania Muhareb, a PhD scholar at the Irish Cent
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