Lord Drummond Young has retired from the bench. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2001 and he was appointed to the Inner House in June 2013.
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The woman who was told "over and over" not to go to the bar, yet who ultimately became Scotland's first female judge, has spoken about her path to the bench. In the latest episode of the University of Glasgow Law Podcast, Lady Cosgrove speaks to senior lecturer Maria Fletcher.
Scottish Business Network has named New York-based lawyer Fraser Grier as its ambassador in the city. The immigration law expert will aim to help SBN members find opportunities in the Big Apple and to build the community of Scots there.
The Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) will celebrate the first 200 years of publication of Session Cases in 2021. The first case reported in the first series, Shaw, was Rev. Wm. Strang v Wm. McIntosh (1821) 1 S. 5, dated 12 May 1821.
A bill changing the law of culpable homicide by introducing two new offences has been introduced at Holyrood. The bill would create two different statutory kinds of culpable homicide – culpable homicide where death is caused recklessly or by gross negligence.
A survey has revealed support for changes in the law to promote shared parenting. Amendments to the Children (Scotland) Bill including ones on renaming contact and residence and on a requirement to consider equal residence time between parents by default will be debated by the Justice Committee next
The test for standing in judicial review cases brought on ECHR grounds should be that of 'sufficient interest', a new briefing by the Human Rights Consortium Scotland argues. Chris McCorkindale and Douglas Jack from Strathclyde University were commissioned by the consortium to produce a researc
A new Holyrood bill which aims to make it easier to hold large companies and their senior managers liable for workplace fatalities represents a ‘substantial broadening’ of culpability, a Scots lawyer has said. Legal director at Addleshaw Goddard, Tony McGlennan, believes that the term &l
MSPs on two Scottish Parliament committees are seeking views on the Scottish government's UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Bill. The Scottish government introduced the bill on 18 June 2020. The bill aims to:
Michael Fakhri, the UN’s special rapporteur on right to food, is to speak at an event focused on human rights in Scotland’s food system.
The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project (SFJP) has released a sample book chapter on the case of Drury v HM Advocate [2001] SLT 1013. The SFJP is a project which brings together legal academics, practising lawyers, and representatives from the third sector, to consider whether important legal cases
The winners of the first Scottish Universities Law Institute (SULI) scholarships have been announced. Edinburgh Law School's Shona Warwick and Aberdeen University's Chike Emedosi are the inaugural recipients of the scholarships.