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Edinburgh Napier Law Clinic will host the eighth annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network Conference next month. The day will open with some words from the incoming president of the Law Society, John Mulholland, and close with a keynote from John Sturrock QC, founder and senior mediator at Core
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Irish Legal News assistant editor Connor Beaton reviews an account of the 1922 battle between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which all but destroyed the Four Courts, home to the superior courts of Ireland. For the last four years, the dome of the Four Courts in the heart of Dubli
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The Faculty of Advocates has applauded a major new service announced by the charity, LawCare, on the first day of Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 May). LawCare promotes good mental health and wellbeing in the legal community in the UK and Ireland.It operates a free confidential helpline, and wil
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Half of vegans feel discriminated against by their employers, while nearly a third have felt harassed at work or unfairly treated due to their veganism, according to a new survey. Researchers discovered that nearly half, 45 per cent, of 1,000 vegan employees questioned have felt discriminated agains
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Advocate and family law expert Kirsty Malcolm will deliver a Glasgow seminar on cohabitation next month, hosted by Jones Whyte Law. The seminar, "Increase in Cohabitation and the difficulties arising in these specialist cases", is aimed at lawyers who have dealings with cohabitation issues, includin
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A public park has introduced designated zones for drug dealers after several failed bids to ban them altogether. The manager of the Görlitzer Park in Berlin, Cengiz Demirci, said the "pink zones" would help families and other park visitors feel less intimidated by the dealers.
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Advocate and family law expert Kirsty Malcolm will deliver a Glasgow seminar on cohabitation next month, hosted by Jones Whyte Law. The seminar, "Increase in Cohabitation and the difficulties arising in these specialist cases", is aimed at lawyers who have dealings with cohabitation issues, includin
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A leading expert in forensic science will join Brian McConnachie QC at an event tonight to discuss how someone could face prosecution for firing a gun they have never touched. Dr Hervé Ménard, principal investigator at the University of Dundee's Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic
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A 40-year-old man whose parents allegedly binned his pornography collection, worth tens of thousands of pounds, has launched a court case against them. He had previously reported his parents to the police, but prosecutors in the US state of Indiana declined to press charges.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that the UK's blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting represents a violation of article 3 of protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the right to free elections. The court declined, however, to a
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Appeal judges have rejected an attempt to save a dog from a death sentence, in a case supported by the Faculty’s Criminal Appeal Service. A sheriff ordered the destruction of Eva, a Bullmastiff, which bit another dog and its owner.
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Two operettas by author Alexander McCall Smith and his musical collaborator Tom Cunningham are to be presented at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in Edinburgh on Sunday 14 April for an evening of splendid music and drama in aid of a very good cause. The double-bill will bring to
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The legal smoking age would rise from 18 to 21 under new proposals being considered by the Scottish government, The Herald reports. The government will host a conference this year to discuss the increase as part of its aim to create a ‘tobacco-free generation’ by 2034.
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A House of Lords committee has drawn special attention to the UK-Ireland Convention on Social Security. The convention seeks to roll over certain social security rights enjoyed by UK and Irish citizens, currently protected by EU law, including rights of free movement.
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Lord Advocate and former Dean of Faculty James Wolffe QC, has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy. Mr Wolffe is among 62 new Fellows, joining an existing fellowship of more than 1,600 individuals who give their time and expertise for free to support t
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