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Raymond Murphy Professor Raymond Murphy of the Irish Centre For Human Rights at NUI Galway writes following the successful prosecution of Ratko Mladić.

A Scots lawyer who was jailed for embezzling more than £260,000 from his aunt has been struck off the roll of solicitors after being found guilty of “professional misconduct”. William Walls was struck off following a separate complaint to the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT), whi

New figures have shown that despite a record number of solicitors in the year 2016/17, there were only 23 more complaints against the legal profession, representing less than one per cent of solicitor transactions. The number of Scottish solicitors holding a practising certificate during 2016/17 was

Austin Lafferty and John Mulholland are both in the running to become the next vice president of the Law Society of Scotland. Council members will vote for their preferred candidate and the result will be announced at the December meeting. The successful candidate will succeed current vice president

Pictured (L-R): Donald Findlay, Shelagh McCall, Frances Barber, Joyce McMillan, Lin Anderson and Sue Black. Photograph: Phoebe Grigor.

Advocate Neil Beynon reflects on the performances of the Faculty of Advocates Choir ahead of its 21st charity concert in Edinburgh next month.

A member of the Wu-Tang Clan has launched a copyright suit against a dog-walking company calling itself Woof-Tang Clan. In court papers filed by producer and rapper RZA, the dog-walking company is alleged to have violated the rap group's trademarks.

Pictured: Olivia Laird, Morgan Forbes, Roman Burke, Anique Burke, Zosia Kuczok and Finlay McConnachie

New Rules setting out when the Court of Session sits will come into force on 1 January 2018. In September, last year, the Lord President made Direction No 1 of 2016, under Chapter 10 of the Rules of the Court of Session, making provision to modernise the sittings of the court by abolishing the summe

Two Scottish QCs have been recognised by Legal 500 and named as finalists for regional senior counsel of the year. Mark Stewart QC, of Compass Chambers (pictured right), recently appeared in a number of complex FAIs including the Jim Clark and Snowman rally case as well as the Glasgow Bin Lorry inqu

A legal firm which sought to challenge a decision by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to admit a number of complaints to further investigation has been refused leave to appeal to the Court of Session. A judge refused the firm’s application after ruling that there was “no arguable

The Court of Session has ruled in favour of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) in refusing an application by a firm of solicitors for leave to appeal one of the commission’s decisions (case summary above).The application was unusual in that it came from a firm seeking leave to appeal

Audrey Gaughran A human rights group has called on Nigeria, the UK and the Netherlands to launch investigations into Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over its role in crimes committed by the Nigerian military government in the oil-producing Ogoniland region in the 1990s.

Pictured (L-R): Chris Allan, Helen Archibald from Thorntons with Gordon Hunter, Farquhar Printers.

Pictured (L-R): Jo Nisbet, Martin Darroch (both Harper Macleod), Jim Duffy, Al Walker and Sharon Mars (all Moonshot).