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As we emerge from restrictions and start looking towards post-pandemic ways of working, Ampersand has launched an ambitious pilot to instruct their advocates and alternative dispute practitioners electronically. In March 2020, electronic instructions became the norm, whenever possible. More than a y

A construction worker was threatened with jail time after wearing a T-shirt to a virtual court hearing. Detroit judge Ronald Giles reprimanded the defendant, who claimed he had been working a building site.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence of Dillin Armstrong to the High Court of Justiciary. On 26 August 2019, after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the jury found the applicant and three co-accused guilty of the attempted murder of a young man. The jury foun

GCU Law has launched a dedicated website to campaign for the right to lifelong anonymity for complainers in sexual offence cases to be enshrined in Scots law. The Campaign for Complainer Anonymity, which is led by law lecturers Dr Andrew Tickell and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe and GCU students, seeks t

Half of practising lawyers are experiencing depression and anxiety, according to a study by the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the D.C. Bar. The findings come from a research project into the personal and workplace risk factors for mental health problems, substance use, and attrition among

Terra Firma Chambers’ spring programme of webinars concluded on Thursday 13 May with the seventh event to date in our 2021 webinar series. Our Planning Law webinar was very well attended with 130 delegates signing up and feedback resoundingly positive. The number of attendees have been co

The firm that dealt with the administration of Rangers when it collapsed is suing the Lord Advocate for £25 million over the case that alleged the club was sold fraudulently, The Herald reports. Duff & Phelps' suit is the latest in the malicious prosecution scandal, the cost of which has n

Following the Scottish government’s announcement that most of Scotland will move to Covid Protection “level 2” on 17 May, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has reviewed the operating arrangements in place across the courts. From 17 May cases will be allocated within the max

Defence lawyers are to boycott courts on Monday due to a dispute with the Scottish government over legal aid funding. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said the profession was at breaking point.

The Law Society of Scotland's Racial Inclusion Group (RIG) is currently running a survey about the experiences of people from an ethnic minority background studying and/or practising law.  The Law Society established the RIG last year and is keen to get a more up-to-date account of the exp

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China: Lawyer delisted after taking up Hong Kong fugitives case barred from leaving country | South China Morning Post

The Law Societies of Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland have condemned Chinese sanctions against lawyers. They said in a statement that they "unreservedly condemn the recent announcement by the Government of the People’s Republic of China of sanctions against lawyers for providing legal ad

Pokémon trading cards have been pulled from the shelves of one of the biggest retailers in the US in a bid to protect staff from rowdy fans – one of whom brandished a gun last week. Beloved of people who grew up in the 1990s and traded them in primary school, Pokémon cards have s

On this day, 200 years ago, the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session, presided over by Lord President Charles Hope (Lord Granton), ancestor to Lord Hope of Craighead, gave its decision in Strang v McIntosh 1 S 1 – the first entry in Session Cases. Emma McLarty a

Scottish Water has been fined £6,700 at Dundee Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to an incident of water pollution in Fife in 2018. Approximately 400 litres of a chemical coagulant were discharged into the River Eden in October 2018 resulting in the death of at least 500 trout and salmo