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The seventh annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network conference was hosted at the University of Dundee yesterday. The opening keynote address was given by Mike Dailly of Govan Law Centre and there were other contributions on the day about: the Scottish University Land Unit (a partnership with D

Fraser Sutherland, campaigns manager at Humanist Society Scotland, calls for dead letter blasphemy laws to be scrapped. Last week when talking to friends about the campaign work Humanist Society Scotland, they expressed surprise that Scotland still has a common law offence against blasphemy. To be f

A successful night was had by all on Friday 25 May as over 150 people gathered in the Eglinton & Glencairn Gardens in the west end of Edinburgh for the fourth annual Cancer Research Racquet & Marie Champagne Garden Party.

A Chinese asylum seeker who sought to challenge a decision by the Home Office to refuse to treat her further representations based on extracts from an expert’s report in another case as a “fresh claim” has had her application dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session considered th

The judiciary in England and Wales has changed its web address to "reflect the constitutionally independent position of the judiciary".The website has moved from www.judiciary.gov.uk to www.judiciary.uk as of this week.In a statement, the Judicial Office said "all links to previous website

Gay and bisexual men in Scotland will receive automatic pardons for historical convictions for homosexuality. Under the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) Bill, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament, men will also have convictions of same-sex sexual activity that is now lega

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has lost an appeal to the UK Supreme Court in which it sought declarations that the current law on abortion in Northern Ireland is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights in cases of rape, incest, an

Scotland will lead the way in the UK in ensuring the experiences of those affected by the Miners’ Strike in the 1980s are properly understood, the Justice Secretary has said. Michael Matheson has ordered an independent review into the impact of policing on communities during the Miners’

It will be interesting to see whether the recent English case of Parkhurst Road Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Another heard in the High Court at the end of April this year will have any impact in Scotland, writes Stephanie Mackenzie. The High Court upheld th

A baby will become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man succeeds in court. Lawyers for the parent told a judge that he had been born a female and had been biologically able to give birth but had legally become a man by the time the child was born.

Artificial intelligence is able to predict the outcomes of trials with a high success rate, a paper published yesterday argues. The Brief reports that computers have correctly predicted 88 per cent of prosecution decisions in studies using American legal data and 82 per cent of outcomes in asylum ca

An official opening of the refurbished Faculty library at the High Court in Glasgow has helped to give the west-coast criminal bar "the best facilities for many a long day".

A new report by JUSTICE Scotland concludes that suspects and solicitors need a better understanding of the importance of legal assistance during police detention. The report, Legal Assistance in the Police Station, says around 70 per cent of suspects continue to waive the right to assistance, seven

A breakdancing FBI agent accidentally shot a man in the leg as he tried to pick up a gun he dropped while doing a handstand. A bystander recorded a video of the incident in which the off-duty agent performed a wild dance at a bar in downtown Denver, which culminated in a handstand, causing the gun t

A German whisky may be infringing protections enjoyed by Scotland, the Court of Justice of the European Union has said. The court took no final view on Glen Buchenbach, referring the Scotch Whisky Association's complaint back to judges in Germany for a ruling.