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Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner has launched an investigation into whether Facebook is breaching the GDPR by failing to fulfil requests to hand over information it collects about users' web browsing. The social media giant collects information about other websites that Facebook users acc

The venerable Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and its premises in Parliament House are among the jewels in the crown of Scotland’s legal heritage, as SSC secretary Mr Robert Shiels explains. On 1 August 1754 by Act of Sederunt of the Court of Session the

Further options to deliver the devolution of railway policing to Scotland are to be explored, the Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has said. The decision comes following recent advice from Police Scotland around the practicalities of a number of issues and timing of implementation, particularly r

Improvements to plans for an opt-out organ donation system have been suggested by the Faculty of Advocates to MSPs. The Faculty called for annual publicity campaigns so new residents in Scotland were always kept informed about the policy of deemed consent.

The new head of Police Scotland has acknowledged that mistakes were made in the creation of the single force five years ago. Iain Livingstone, who took up the post of Chief Constable on Monday, said the force "had not always engaged with communities sufficiently".

Souter Investments has sold search company First Scottish to US firm Eli Global for an undisclosed sum, it announced yesterday. First Scottish produces searches and reports for solicitors, local authorities, financial institutions and others.

The number of civil cases in Scotland initiated in 2016-17 was the lowest since records began in 2008-09, with a drop of 44 per cent since that year. The latest civil justice statistics, published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician today also record a 48 per cent drop in cases at the Court of Se

The Law Society of Scotland is drawing up plans to allow first-year trainee criminal lawyers to appear in court because there are too few entrants to the criminal legal aid sector, The Times reports. There are currently between 25 and 30 trainees at criminal legal aid firms, in addition to those at

This year's annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland takes place on Sunday, 23 September 2018 at noon.

Stephen Webster looks at the unintended consequences of regulation in the financial services sector.  The financial services industry is one of the most highly regulated sectors in the world. That’s a good thing because it means that professional practitioners are held accountable for the

Police have launched a criminal investigation into the demolition of a historic Dundee mill. The derelict Halley's Mill, built in 1836, was demolished by Craigie Estates in May out of safety concerns.

Following the news that the Crown Office is to receive a cash injection to recruit more lawyers and staff, calls have been made for the Scottish government to do the same in the legal aid sector. Ian Moir, of the Law Society of Scotland's Legal Aid Committee, said that since the government has been

The Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Moveable Transactions proposed reform for assignation of receivables, rents and other claims; and for a new form of fixed security interest over corporeal moveables, intellectual property, shares and other financial instruments. Since its publication in

A Russian national, a publisher and a religious association suffered a violation of their ECHR right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously held. The case concerned anti-extremism legislation in Russia and a ban on publishing and distributing Islamic books.