The Lawscot Foundation has unveiled a modern new logo to help aid its mission supporting aspiring Scottish lawyers who face financial and other barriers. The new look has been launched as 2025 applications for support are considered. Applications can be made up to midday on Monday, 30 June 2025 by p
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Scotland is often aligned with England and Wales when it comes to the law, but not always – it has a truly unique, hybrid legal system. This can make dealing with Scottish legal proceedings daunting, which is why Shepherd and Wedderburn has created its Handling Disputes in Scotland video serie
Views are being sought on a bill that would introduce the crime of ecocide into Scotland. The Ecocide (Scotland) Bill was introduced by Monica Lennon MSP on 29 May. Ms Lennon believes that creating a distinct criminal offence and increasing the penalties for perpetrators would reduce the likelihood
Even after the Act of Union in 1707, Scotland and England maintained separate and distinct legal traditions. Over the centuries that have passed since, Scots law and English law have evolved differently, writes Thomas Mitchell. Their stark differences are most prevalent when it comes to the assessme
Opinion: Ignorance of a state of affairs is not sufficient for section 6(4) – GGHB v Multiplex & Ors
Andrew McConnell and Victoria Hayward of Beale & Co examine a recent court judgment on prescription. Prescription remains a very hot topic and in this article we look at the Court of Session’s approach to the application of section 6(4) and the evidence relied upon by Greater Glasgow Healt
Every day, members of the public enter offices, shops, supermarkets, restaurants and gyms. An issue that has arisen of late is how the Scottish courts deal with accidents caused by the condition of something in such premises that is defective, writes Andrew Gilmour. In the case of McCormack v Sports
The Public Defence Solicitors’ Office (PDSO) welcomed James Calder for a six-week internship at its Falkirk office on 21 July. James has taken up the first intern post at PDSO Falkirk, following the success of a pilot internship at PDSO Dundee last year.
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With modern slavery and people trafficking on the rise, we must stay vigilant in Scotland, writes Sheriff Maryam Labaki. There’s a brand-new Scottish musical coming to Glasgow this August, based on a remarkable story drawn straight from our legal past.
Rights and equalities groups have condemned Police Scotland’s announcement that it will continue work to introduce live facial recognition technology, warning of “racial injustice, creeping surveillance and democratic erosion”. Fourteen rights and racial justice organisations
Small scale, unsubsidised, borne along on a wave of bookish enthusiasm, the ‘Writing Worth Reading’ cluster of 12 events at the Royal Scots Club can hardly be described as a competitor to the big literary beast which, not long past, was licking its wounds in a venue oddly described as th
The first reported decision in the UK on the central plank of the rules that allocate jurisdiction in divorce cases within the UK was issued by Lady Tait on 22 August, writes Rachael Kelsey. The decision dealt with whether it should be the Scottish or English courts divorcing the couple – and