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An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors. The School Mock Court Case Project runs an educational programme through an inter-school competition that sees school children argue a mock trial in a real court in front of a sheriff.

Last year, the Faculty of Advocates wowed Edinburgh with an outstanding inaugural conference on arbitration, and now a Glasgow audience is to be given a full update on this increasingly popular form of dispute resolution. The Arbitration in Scotland Conference 2018 will be held in the Hilton Glasgow

The Scottish Paralegal Association is holding a conference in Dundee on 2 October 2018 at the Apex City Quay Hotel, Dundee. This is a full day event which is open to both members and non-members of the association. A keynote speech will be given by Jennifer Henderson, chief executive and K

The latest edition of the Scottish Civil Justice Council’s newsletter is now available. Issue 17 includes information on the council's ongoing work, committee activity, and research on the Simple Procedure.

Legislation to make smacking children illegal has been published at Holyrood today. The bill, put forward by Green MSP John Finnie, has been backed by the Scottish government.

Around 2,000 executives of companies which failed are due compensation payments and bigger pensions following a judgment of the European Court of Justice on the UK pensions lifeboat, The Times reports. The court ruled yesterday that the cap restricting pension payments to members of schemes rescued

The UK government is facing a legal challenge from Reprieve over its use of a law that can be deployed to authorise the involvement of British intelligence officers in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Section 7 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 allows ministers to permit UK pe

On 25th August, Clan Childlaw co-founder Alison Reid along with colleagues Lucy Frazer, Jill Sutherland and Rachel Farrier, took part in the Great Scottish Swim in Loch Lomond, each swimming a mile in choppy waters. The team were cheered on by family and friends, including Clan Childlaw co-founder,

Spain's first trial over a scandal in which babies were allegedly stolen from their mothers during the Franco era has resumed in a Madrid court, decades after the practice occurred, The Local reports. Eduardo Vela, 85, a former gynaecologist at a clinic in Madrid, is accused of having taken Ines Mad

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken SLN assistant editor Kapil Summan reflects on the presumption of innocence in one of the best legal books of modern times.

Ex-Rangers administrators David Whitehouse and Paul Clark have failed in the civil claim against the Lord Advocate for wrongful detention over allegations of fraud, The Herald reports. In the Court of Session, Lord Malcolm ruled that there nevertheless remains a case to be answered under the Europea

India's Supreme Court has legalised gay sex, striking down a colonial-era law that banned the practice. Section 377, a 157-year-old law banned “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal” and was punishable by life in prison.

Roy Moore, 71, a former candidate for the US Senate, is suing the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for defamation after he was the victim of a prank. In a sketch for the show Who Is America?, Mr Baron Cohen pretended he was an Israeli anti-terror expert demonstrating how to use a "paedophile detector".

Solicitors and non-solicitors have the opportunity to get involved with the work of the Law Society of Scotland, influencing decisions affecting the Scottish legal profession and helping to shape the law. There are currently vacancies on 30 of the Law Society’s diverse range of committees and

A report has found that Police Scotland was justified in using PAVA irritant spray to subdue a man whom officers were trying to detain during a drugs search and to prevent him from escaping. The 32-year-old man had struggled violently with officers trying to detain him prior to the spray being