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The University of Strathclyde Law Clinic has received a £2,880 funding award from SafeDeposits Scotland Trust for a project to educate tenants and homeowners in Glasgow and the surrounding areas. The ‘Housing Advice Under One Roof’ initiative will research the Housing & Propert

Senators in Argentina have rejected a proposal to overhaul the South American country's restrictive abortion laws. Abortion is currently only available in Argentina where the pregnancy has arisen from rape or where the mother's life is at risk, but lawmakers have been debating legislation allowing f

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has written to the Lord Advocate to "query the very low numbers of prosecutions and convictions" for the offence of upskirting in Scotland which he believes are "counter-intuitive". The party said that the law has "only been used

The BBC is going to court in a bid to force Microsoft help track down the source of a Doctor Who leak. A 53-second clip of Jodie Whittaker as the series' iconic lead character, The Doctor, was leaked online in June.

In response to the possibility of asylum seekers in Glasgow facing homelessness and ‎destitution, emergency Scottish government funding will be given to charities until their legal options have been exhausted. The Destitute Asylum Seeker Service (DASS) is being given £110,000 for the next

A fisherman has been fined for lying to police about being attacked – so that officers would give him a lift home. Matthew McAtasney, 19, claimed to have been kicked and punched in Peterhead last year.

The University of Stirling has welcomed legal academics Dr Katie Boyle and Dr Michelle Donnelly to the law and philosophy division. Dr Boyle, who has been appointed as associate professor in international human rights law, qualified as a solicitor with the Government Legal Service for

Scotland's prosecutors and courts are to get extra funding to respond to the growth in sexual offence reports and reduce the time such cases take to progress through the justice system. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) will u

Have you ever thought about becoming a member of the judiciary? Are you wondering what you can start to do now to put you in a position to apply in the future? Do you want to know more about what is involved in these jobs? The SYLA has partnered with the Judicial Appointments Board for Sco

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people. The data broking company, which provides advice

Scottish insolvency practitioners may be able to use a decision of the Supreme Court in an English case on time limit in support of bringing claims against company directors, even if the claims are over five years old and, on the face it of it, are out of time, writes Katrina Lumsdaine. The Sup

Privacy International has this week filed an appeal challenging UK police forces' refusal to disclose information on their purchase and use of IMSI catchers. IMSI catchers are surveillance tools which mimic mobile phone towers, tricking phones into connecting with them and revealing personal informa

The SNP has called for the reform and devolution of inheritance tax following reports IHT raised a record £5.2 billion in 2017-18. In the financial year 2016-17, £283m was raised in Scotland – with receipts growing 12 per cent over the preceding decade.  

On 18 July the EU Commission handed Google a record fine of £3.8bn (€4.34bn) for abuse of its dominant position in relation to the Android operating system. David Flint and Rebecca Henderson explain why the tech giant incurred the Commission's wrath. What is a dominant position?