UK law firm Shakespeare Martineau has opened applications for the first-ever trainee positions in its Glasgow office. The firm has created two trainee positions, with one to begin in 2022 and another in 2024, earning £23,000 in the first year and £26,000 in the second. Trainees will work
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The Scottish Child Law Centre is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Since it was established, the centre has advised over 50,000 parents, carers, children and young people on their legal rights and has had a major impact on thousands of lives.
Whilst access to cosmetic treatments such as teeth whitening, Botox injections and skin peels may have once been the preserve of those in the world of modelling and fashion, Scots across the country are now undergoing thousands of cosmetic enhancements every year due to the increased availability an
The Lawscot Foundation will be strengthening its support to future bursary recipients, thanks to a sponsorship agreement with Scottish law and tax publisher Bloomsbury Professional. Bloomsbury has agreed to supply each student who is accepted into the Lawscot Foundation programme from this year with
Katie Boyle has been promoted to chair of international human rights law at the University of Stirling. Professor Boyle leads on human rights research and teaching in the faculty of arts and humanities, including establishing an interdisciplinary masters programme together with Rowan Cruft, professo
Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee has agreed to ask the Scottish government to consider a petition's request to erect a national memorial to people accused of witchcraft. The petition was lodged by Claire Mitchell QC of the Witches of Scotland campaign.
A new national museum is to honour Joseph Knight, the enslaved man who won a landmark legal case in 1778 at the Court of Session. Knight, who was enslaved in Africa and taken to Jamaica, brought a case to the Justice of the Peace Court in Perth in 1774 in an attempt to leave the employment of John W
National Accident Helpline has announced the finalists of its Future Legal Minds competition, with Scottish students Syed Adil and Farid Ahmed making it onto the shortlist.
The fifth volume of the Strathclyde Law Review has been published and can be accessed online. Articles in the latest edition cover a range of topics, including:
Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe has been appointed as vice-chair of JUSTICE Scotland, succeeding Catherine Smith QC. JUSTICE has been at the forefront of law reform in the United Kingdom since 1957, aiming to promote a fairer and more accessible justice system for all, carrying out research and generating
National Accident Helpline has announced the winners of its Future Legal Mind competition, with Scottish law student Syed Adil taking one of the prizes. Mr Adil will be awarded £1,500, which will go towards his studies as well as mentoring with experienced lawyers. He will also be given the op
The Scottish government's latest publication on our controversial third verdict – responses to a consultation on its future – reveals that the public and practitioners alike impute to it their own meaning to suit their own ends. Like some intractable theological question, it has bred zea
A cannabis farm in Wishaw was raided after police caught a whiff of its distinctive smell — from their police station next door. A total of 118 plants and 99 seedlings worth more than £70,000 were recovered from the warehouse neighbouring the town's cop shop, the Daily Record reports.
The Lawscot Foundation’s programme to assist aspiring solicitors from disadvantaged backgrounds will be further expanded, thanks to a new sponsorship agreement with the Clark Foundation. The Clark Foundation for Legal Education – which was established in 1991 by former Law Society of Sco
Human rights lawyer Kavita Chetty has joined the Scottish government as deputy director for human rights and mainstreaming. Ms Chetty, formerly head of legal and strategy at the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), has been appointed on a fixed-term basis for up to three years.