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Brexit and the twists and turns flowing from two historic court rulings will be put under the spotlight at a special Faculty of Advocates event. Brexit: Lessons from the Courts is a joint presentation by the Faculty and the European Circuit, a voluntary organisation of advocates, barristers and cour

Morton Fraser has begun a new podcast series that explores mediation in Scotland. In the first episode of the Stuck in the Middle series, the firm chats with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the role mediation plays in resolving conflict and the various ways in which mediation can

Scots lawyers are being asked to help inform a new documentary on parole. Red Sky Productions has been granted unprecedented access to the Parole Board for Scotland in producing its documentary for Channel 4.

A little boy in Fife won’t stand out from the crowd this Christmas but will be able to boast to pals that Santa brought him a bike, too – thanks to the generosity of members of the Faculty of Advocates and staff. The boy is one of many youngsters - and parents – to be given some fe

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Uber drivers should be considered workers, with the right to a guaranteed minimum wage and holiday pay, in a major blow to the gig economy company. The court upheld the previous Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal rulings that Uber had unlawfull

A third of vintage Scotch whiskies have found to be fake. The Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), based in East Kilbride, carried out carbon dating on 55 bottles, discovering that 21 were not what they claimed to be on the label.

This month brought another interesting development in the ongoing saga of employment status for gig economy workers, writes Meghan Jenkins. Last Wednesday the English High Court rejected a judicial review challenge in the case of R (on the application of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britai

A flight attendant who was forced to apologise on his knees to the airline chairman's daughter for serving her nuts in a bag and not on a plate has won £14,000 in compensation. Park Chang-jin was subjected to a stream of verbal abuse from Cho Hyun-ah, eldest daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho

Scottish Legal News' extremely popular 'And finally...' slot enjoyed another year of bizarre and funny stories. Listed below are the 10 our readers enjoyed most. And finally… str**k off

A pursuer’s offer cannot be lodged and given effect to in the Inner House of the Court of Session, appeal judges have ruled. The First Division held that, while the chapter 34A of the Rules of the Court of Session did not expressly exclude pursuers’ offers, the language of the rules

Short term prison sentences of less than 12 months will be brought to an end this year, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. New figures showed more than 1,000 people spent last Christmas in prison on such sentences.

Measures to help police and prosecutors to tackle domestic abuse will come into force on 1 April next year, ministers have announced. The Domestic Abuse Act 2018, passed by the Scottish Parliament last year, creates a new offence which explicitly covers psychological harm as well as physical harm, a

A think tank has called for a pilot scheme in Scottish prisons to offer each prisoner a landline phone in their cell. At present, Scottish prisoners can only access a telephone at certain times and often in communal settings. In England, conversely, a number of prisons have landline phones in c

Police are forced to attend Scottish courts dozens of times each month to deal with a range of 999 calls, new figures have shown. Between 2016 and 2018, the force received 2,228 emergency calls from sheriff courts across the country.