Best-selling Scottish crime writer Val MacDermid and Scottish poet and spoken word artist Stephen Watt were among those who read extracts from the Saughton Sonnets at the National Youth Justice Conference today. The Faculty of Advocates is one of the sponsors of the Saughton Sonnets, an anthology of
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HMRC was wrong to refuse a backdated claim for child tax credits for asylum seekers who had been granted refugee status, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled in the first successful social security test case for asylum seekers and tax credits in the UK. Although tax credits were abolished and r
The Good Law Project is seeking a declaration that Boris Johnson's decision to nominate Tory donor Peter Cruddas for a peerage last year was unlawful. Mr Johnson made the decision against the advice of the appointments watchdog.
Former miners who transferred pension funds after they were made redundant could claim tens of thousands of pounds in compensation. Glasgow and Yorkshire-based solicitors Corries has acted for men who were given bad advice and told to leave employer-run pension schemes.
Pupils from Peebles High School have been crowned Scotland’s best young debaters, after winning the grand final of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament 2020/21, organised by the Law Society of Scotland. Thomas Dunmur and Laura Eggleton of Peebles High School in the Borders won the nat
A new private member's bill by Conservative MP Sajid Javid would raise the age at which people can marry to 18, in an effort to tackle forced marriage. The former chancellor's bill would end the current regime under which 16-year-olds can marry with their parents' consent.
A barrister has been suspended after suggesting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's new daughter should be called 'Doprah'. The Family Law Café in London said it had suspended Joanna Toch “with immediate effect pending an internal review into her recent comments on Twitter”.
A Labour MSP has called on the UK government to enforce measures to protect young people from online pornography. Rhoda Grant tabled a motion this month expressing "concern the UK government’s reported failure to implement Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 (the 2017 Act), aimed at protect
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The range of new laws introduced to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic have not been subject to adequate parliamentary scrutiny, with government guidance and ministerial statements often failing to set out the law clearly, misstating the law or laying claim to legal requirements that did not exist, accord
Michael Gove broke the law by giving a contract to a communications agency run by long time associates of his and Dominic Cummings, the High Court has ruled. Lawyers for the Good Law Project accused Mr Cummings of wanting work to be given to a company run by his friends.
Ongoing emergency coronavirus legislation could be extended for another six months, but it is still unclear whether measures to prevent evictions will be included. The temporary powers were originally introduced in the spring of last year, but are due to expire in September.
A woman who lost her job after she said people cannot change their biological sex has succeeded in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Maya Forstater, 47, had tweeted on gender recognition, in consequence of which her contract at the think tank Center for Global Development (CGD) was n
A solicitor who prepared false invoices for non-existent work in order to steal more than £12,500 from clients' accounts has pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Louise Sutherland, 60, took the money while employed at Graeme Murray & Co Solicitors in Aberdeen in an attempt to save her husband's
