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The Law Society of Scotland, while supporting the aims of the Scottish Parliament’s Apologies Bill, has raised questions on what it could achieve in cases involving medical practitioners. Laura Ceresa, a member of the Law Society’s Health and Medical Law Committee, will give evidence today befor

Thomas Ross The SLN Spotlight this week falls on Thomas Ross, advocate and president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association.

A trainee greenkeeper who was jailed for 21 months after being convicted of assaulting a university student following an argument in a pub has successfully challenged the sentence imposed by a sheriff. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the offence was not one which ought to have attracted a custo

Stephen Gibb (Jo Hanley Photography/johanley.com) Shepherd and Wedderburn has announced its year-end results. Turnover grew 26 per cent to £48 million, whilst profits increased to £18m, results which also reflect the contribution since October 2014 of the firm’s acquisition of Tods Murray.

A huge Chilean cheese scam allegedly operated by a woman in Paris has been exposed. Gilberte van Erpe, 74, stands accused of selling a nearly worthless powder to thousands of Chileans for millions of dollars, having promised them that the powder would produce a "magic cheese" used in cosmetics.

Paul Pignatelli DWF has appointed partners Paul Pignatelli and Wayne Lawrence as executive partners for the firm’s Glasgow and Edinburgh offices.

Alistair Carmichael MP Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael will face a legal bid from four constituents who want to see him ousted from his seat over allegations of lying.

Registers of Scotland (RoS) has published its third 10-year property market report, detailing trends in the land and property market between 2005-15. The report is based on all property sales, even those which do not involve a mortgage, and so delivers "an insight into what's going on in the Scottis

Sir Stephen House Sir Stephen House, the chief constable of Police Scotland sparked a row between the police and the judiciary after he criticised a sheriff for making “unsubstantiated comments” at the trial of one of his colleagues last year.

A transcript of a passage of Tommy Sheridan’s cross-examination of Andrew Coulson during the former MSP’s perjury trial was inadmissible in evidence at the trial of the ex-editor of the News of the World for allegedly making false statements under oath. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the e

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is hearing the case of a Brazilian man who was killed by police in 2005 on the London Underground after he was mistakenly identified as a suicide bomber in the wake of the London bombings. The case has been brought by Patricia Armani Da

Justice secretary Michael Matheson MSP Justice secretary Michael Matheson will not intervene in the police investigation into the death of Sheku Bayoh and has rejected calls for the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) to be given new statutory powers.

Kenneth Shand Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) has promoted 40 of its lawyers.

The Faculty of Advocates has raised a fundamental question over planned legislation for Scotland which aims to alter attitudes to apologising – where is the evidence from anywhere in the world that such laws are an effective means of bringing about the desired change? Under the Apologies (Scotland

A very unexpected but welcome surprise greeted a Faculty delegation on a visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The visit co-incided with the hearing before the Grand Chamber of the Jean Charles de Menezes case.