The Tumbling Lassie, a 17th century girl who has been adopted by a group of advocates to highlight the evils of modern slavery and people trafficking, will feature in three different festivals next month. First, Eric Robertson, advocate, one of seven members of the Faculty of Advocates who make up t
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Investment and financial planning firm Brewin Dolphin is to join the Law Society of Scotland’s partnership programme, providing expertise and support for Scottish solicitors and their clients. Paul Mosson, executive director of member services and engagement at the Law Society of Scotland
Police and prosecutors disclosed evidence in less than 60 per cent of a sample of hundreds of criminal cases, according to a new report. The Times reports that inspectors from HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) found that police complied with their obligations to disclose unused mate
Changes are being made to the Faculty of Advocates’ scholarship scheme, with the aim of making the devilling process as widely accessible as possible. One of a package of changes, which will include an increase in the number of scholarships available, is a revision to timing of scholarship app
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will assume jurisdiction over the crime of aggression from tomorrow, the twentieth anniversary of the ICC's founding Rome Statute. The fourth "core" crime of the ICC was set out in the ICC Statute in 1998, but the state parties agreed at the time
Telling migrants to "go away" is racist, Italy's highest court has ruled. The Court of Cassation ruled on Thursday that telling non-EU foreigners to get out of the country is a form of racial discrimination, The Local reports.
Bilfinger UK, the company at the centre of the Edinburgh trams inquiry, has failed in its attempt to prevent publication of documents it provided to the inquiry. The company had sought a restriction order preventing publication of information contained in certain reports, but inquiry chairman L
A play based on the story of a runaway slave and the road to abolition of the practice in Britain has featured on BBC Radio 4. May Sumbwanyambe's The Trial of Joseph Knight is based on real historical events.
Multinational company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay a record $4.7 billion to 22 women who blamed their ovarian cancer on use of its talc-based products.A six-man, six-woman jury in the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court in St Louis, Missouri heard six weeks of testimony
In the latest of our occasional series, Graham Ogilvy discovers a curious legal relic in Dunkeld. What would the Howard League make of it? The strange door into the foundations of Telford's famous bridge across the Tay in Dunkeld is painted an innocuous blue but the heavy iron locks l
Following the conclusion earlier this week of the five-year-long National Socialist Underground (NSU) trial in Munich, In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts) from German-Turkish director Fatih Akin makes particularly timely viewing.
Scottish housing market activity continues to grow in contrast to a slowdown in the rest of the UK, according to a new report. Fresh sales across the UK declined for the 16th month in a row compared to growth in Scotland since January, the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey found
Lawyers representing eight long-term detainees at Guantánamo Bay argued in federal court yesterday that the US government cannot continue to detain the prisoners there indefinitely, immune to judicial review. The mass habeas corpus motion, filed on the men’s behalf by Reprieve, the Cent
Writing a textbook is not an easy endeavour. Not only is it regarded by the broader academic community as belonging to the lower ranks of the hierarchy of publications academics are supposed to aspire to (the single-authored monograph being the ultimate status symbol), but in these REF driven times,
Facebook broke the law during the Brexit referendum – by failing to safeguard people’s information after the data of 87 million people was harvested – and could be fined £500,000 for two breaches of data protection legislation, the Information Commissioner's Office
