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A charity which runs a school mooting competition is looking for lawyers from across Scotland to tutor pupils. This year’s School Mock Court Project competition has started in some regions already but is still looking for tutors. The charity runs two separate competitions each year, one for primar

Michelle Adam Michelle Adam contrasts punitive and compensatory PI regimes following an interesting case in the US involving huge sums in punitive damages.

Nancy Loucks An independent think tank has recommended that prisoners be allowed landline phones in their cells to maintain closer ties with their families.

Scottish Discrimination Law Association (SDLA) and Industrial Law Society joint afternoon seminar: Equality law after Brexit – What next? and SDLA AGM The SDLA and Industrial Law Society invites you to an afternoon seminar on Thursday 7th September 2017, at 4pm (registration from 3.30pm onwards),

Countryside campaigners who sought judicial review of a decision to approve plans for a new wind farm in a designated “wild land” area have had their legal challenge dismissed. Danish billionaire and landowner Anders Povlsen, director of Wildland Limited, which owns the Ben Loyal, Kinloch and Ho

Vikki Melville Vikki Melville takes a look at the problem of fraudulent conduct in civil cases and the shortcomings of the bill intended to remedy it.

Douglas Mill In his regular SLN column, former Law Society of Scotland chief executive Douglas Mill considers this weekend’s sad demise of Pagan Osborne and gives his personal view.

The 250-year-old history of one of Scotland’s most high profile small firms came to an end over the weekend with the long anticipated collapse of Pagan Osborne. Pagan Osborne had attempted in recent times to rebalance the business and move away from domestic conveyancing but it would appear that d

The Law Society of Scotland is calling for people with an interest in debating to sign up as judges for the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament 2017/18. At the same time, every high school in Scotland is receiving a written invitation to enter a team or teams.

Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has significantly extended its existing sponsorship deal with Glasgow Warriors, after agreeing to sponsor the West Stand at Scotstoun Stadium.

Overgrown hedges remain an issue in Scotland because legislation is not always being used as effectively as it could be, according to a Holyrood committee. The Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee has set out key recommendations in a report following its examination of

Scott Blair Terra Firma advocate Scott Blair has been asked to join the Working Group of the Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare (ALAW). The working group has been formed as part of a project by ALAW to advise on the ongoing implications for the protection of the welfare of animals in the UK a

Fears have been voiced by the Faculty of Advocates that proposals to modernise the law of defamation have “a significant gap” in dealing with online character attacks. The Faculty is also concerned that the wording of the Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Bill could exclude MSPs a

Eric McQueen Changes to summary criminal court procedure including running pre-trial procedures as part of a digital case management process have been suggested by justice experts.

A new bill that would stop the use of wild animals performing or being displayed in travelling circuses in Scotland needs to be tightened, a Holyrood committee has said. The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee has published a report today outlining key recommendations to improve th