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Maree Todd Proposals which would require all sports coaches working with children and other vulnerable groups to undergo mandatory disclosure checks have been outlined.

A man charged with assault with intent to rape who claimed that a sheriff erred in granting an extension to the 12-month period in which to bring the accused to trial has had his appeal dismissed. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary upheld the sheriff’s decision to grant a motion by t

A solicitor advocates group has criticised a Faculty of Advocates response to a review of legal services, saying it “demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the relevant rules which apply to solicitors and the additional rules which apply to solicitor advocates”; that the Faculty’s prop

Amanda Jones Amanda Jones, partner in Dentons' UK employment team, has been appointed chair of the Women and Girls in Sport Advisory Board.

Roddy Dunlop QC The Faculty of Advocates has responded to criticism by the Society of Solicitor Advocates (SSA) in relation to the Faculty’s submission to the Independent Review of the Regulation of Legal Services in Scotland (the Roberton Review).

Stephen McGowan (left) with former president Andrew Lawrence, sales and operations director for Scotland at Molson Coors Stephen McGowan, partner and head of TLT's licensing team in Scotland, has been named president of the Benevolent Society of the Licensed Trade of Scotland (The BEN).

Thursday, 10 May 2018 from 6pm at SSC Members’ Lounge, Edinburgh As we continue into a new era of technological advancement, with clients increasingly demanding tangible results for the money they are paying their lawyers, an ability to effectively and efficiently work with and lead a team of prof

Jamie Gardiner An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors.

Is the law fair to asylum seekers? That is the question posed on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Unreliable Evidence series. Host Clive Anderson asks his expert guests if the law makes it too hard for people to prove they have a legitimate claim to asylum.

Roseanna Cunningham Proposals to reduce plastic pollution through a ban on the manufacture and sale of plastic-stemmed cotton buds in Scotland have opened for public consultation.

Lord Justice Singh The High Court has today ruled part of the UK government’s flagship surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, is unlawful – following a legal challenge from human rights campaigning organisation Liberty.

Janette Speed, partner and head of Shoosmiths Edinburgh office, welcomes Jim Gray (consultant for Watkins Jones) to Shoosmiths’ Spring Drinks Event held last night in its Saltire Court offices in Edinburgh.

The High Court in London has ruled that a coroner's "cab rank" policy of dealing with bodies on a first-come, first-served basis was unlawful, irrational and discriminatory. The protocol issued last October by Mary Hassell, senior coroner for inner north London, has now been struck down and quashed.

Thieves have returned the stolen 800-year-old heart of St Laurence O'Toole out of fear that it carries a "deadly curse". The relic was taken from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin in 2012 but returned last night after Irish police found it in a nearby park.

Pictured (clockwise): Tom Swan, Lauren McLeod, Elaine Hunter, Stuart Greenwood and Ben Pilbrow