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One of Scotland's most distinguished former judges takes centre stage in a new Netflix four-part series entitled The Tokyo Trial with English actor Paul Freeman playing judge Lord Patrick, a former Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and WW1 Royal Flying Corps air ace, who represented the UK on the Int

Scottish Legal News attracted 614 new readers last year, finishing 2018 with 12,212 subscribers. Twitter followers increased by around the same number to finish the year at 9,310. But the largest increase came in traffic to our new mobile-friendly website with monthly individual user figures up by a

The Scottish Bar Association of New York (ScotBarNY) has announced the launch of the ScotBarNY Foundation, a charitable public foundation formed with the purpose of advancing the relationship between legal professionals and students in Scotland and the United States. Over 200 legal and law-rela

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has warned that “people are being packed into prisons like sardines” after a parliamentary question revealed that the occupancy rate of nine prisons was 100 per cent or higher last month. Barlinnie was operating at 139 per

Balfour+Manson was the first law firm to assume a female partner in Scotland in 1949, and it continues to promote women on merit, says Elaine Motion. As a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil liberties, I have stood up for equality throughout my career

The Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee has agreed to scrutinise the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. This follows evidence taken from Scottish Information Commissioner Daren Fitzhenry on Thursday 10 January, who supports post-legislative scrut

Geopolitical uncertainty has not dampened enthusiasm for corporate mergers and acquisitions according to one of Scotland’s top dealmakers. Investment levels have remained “buoyant” over the past 12 months, and international interest in investing in Scotland has also been sustained

The public is being invited to help reform defamation law in Scotland. A new consultation on defamation – the damaging of an individual’s reputation through false communication – follows a report by the Scottish Law Commission which made 49 recommendations to modernise and simplify

Gibson Kerr has recruited three solicitors and two support staff and promoted a paralegal to trainee solicitor, bringing its staff portfolio to 15.

Via Martin Hogg: The University of Edinburgh's new Law Library opened its doors today, welcoming students beginning the new term as the Law School completes its return to a refurbished Old College five years after the project was launched – one of the most ambitious in its 300-year histo

The Law Society of Scotland has launched an online version of its popular career mentoring scheme with the aim of supporting even more solicitors and students with career development. Since its introduction in 2014, 150 mentees have successfully been matched with a mentor.

House of Commons officials have fitted a tamper alarm to the bust of Oliver Cromwell in order to prevent Labour MP Stephen Pound from turning it to face the wall in protest of the military and political leader's record in Ireland. Mr Pound, the MP for Ealing North, has objected to the bust for a num

Some of the families being represented at the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Clutha helicopter disaster are hoping to gain funding from charity. A hearing before Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull at Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that legal aid has been partially granted to the families of Samuel

Lord Neuberger, former president of the UK Supreme Court, has said there is a "powerful argument" that the Brexit process cannot be halted without legislation. The retired judge presided over the court's ruling two years ago that Parliament had to approve the triggering of article 50 of the Treaty o

A couple in Germany whose four children were temporarily taken into care because they insisted on homeschooling them did not suffer a violation of their article 8 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Wunderlich v Germany, the co