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Two Scots lawyers have been awarded OBEs in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Joan Aitken was the Scottish Prison Complaints Commissioner (Ombudsman) from 1999 until her appointment as a Traffic Commissioner.

Requiring potential employees to declare criminal convictions on their job applications should be banned, according to new research. A study found that criminal record declarations can deter candidates from applying and actually do little to predict the risk of re-offending.

The Irish government has given its formal backing to a joint initiative of The Bar of Ireland, the Law Society and the wider legal community in promoting Ireland as a post-Brexit centre for international legal services. The initiative, also supported by IDA Ireland, will now form part of the go

Up to 1,000 police officers from Scotland and England are being trained for possible deployment to Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit, The Guardian reports. The move was requested by the PSNI in anticipation of potential unrest about border arrangements that could be put in place if t

The UK government has announced a consultation on new laws to protect consumers from loss where they have already paid for products but not received them when the retailer goes bust. The Law Commission examined the issue of consumer prepayments on retailer insolvency in a July 2016 report which reco

Harper Macleod is helping to bring digital education opportunities to African schoolchildren by supporting the work of The Turing Trust. The firm has donated IT equipment to the charity, set up by relatives of Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence,

Judges are the main source of bullying in the legal profession while sexual harassment and propositioning remain a problem, a survey for The Times has revealed. More than half of 1,500 barristers surveyed by the Bar Council thought there was still a problem with bullying and older male barristers se

With the festive period over, the first working Monday in January traditionally sees one of the busiest days of the year for family lawyers with the number of people separating increasing following the Christmas and New Year holidays. Statistics on divorce regularly reveal a significant rise in the

The Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates, Dr Kirsty Hood QC, has helped honour one of the world’s major legal figures, the US Supreme Court Associate Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A special screening of RBG, a documentary about Justice Ginsburg, at the Glasgow Film Theatre was followed by a Q&

Police Scotland is failing to refer suspects to prosecutors timeously, according to figures obtained by Scottish Labour. Between 2015/16 and 2017/18 there has been around a 20 per cent increase in the number of cases that are not prosecuted because they are time barred, data supplied

Corporate law firm Rooney Nimmo has appointed Grant Docherty as a partner in its UK operations. He will be responsible for running the banking team at the firm and will be based in Edinburgh. Mr Docherty has nearly three decades of banking sector law experience having previously served as partner an

Courts in Saudi Arabia will notify women by text message when they have been divorced under a new regulation aimed at ending secret divorces. In a statement, the Saudi justice ministry said women will now "be notified of any changes to their marital status via text message".

Before the festive break, Rachael Kelsey did her first update on the implications of Brexit for family law, giving a general overview of where we are with the three most likely political outcomes. Things are moving apace and there was a significant, if under the radar, development on 28th

A woman who listed her "used husband" on eBay for less than £20 says she received "a lot of positive feedback" but no concrete offers. The advert, addressed to "women who may be interested", read: "Over the first two days of Christmas I have realised that we simply don't belong together any mo