Search:

Bookings are being taken for the Faculty of Advocates’ 12th World Intellectual Property Day Conference, which is expected once again to attract a full house. The conference is on Friday, April 26 – World IP Day – from 11:30am to 2pm in the Mackenzie Building, off High Street, Edinb

Thea Jackson has joined Urquharts in Edinburgh as an associate after working for over 12 years at Turcan Connell’s Edinburgh office, latterly as an associate. She trained and practised in Glasgow, qualifying as a solicitor in 2006.

The Aberdeen Law Project has announced the promotion of Martyna Proczek to the position of student director.  Ms Proczek, 20, a third-year law student, is succeeding Lauren Frame as the project’s ninth student director.

Scottish Greens justice spokesperson John Finnie MSP will today propose an amendment to the Management of Offenders Bill to remove any role for the private sector in the existing or proposed expanded monitoring regime. The Justice Committee will begin its stage 2 consideration of the bill, which &ld

The Law Society of Scotland has called for wider reform of charity legislation in its response to a Scottish government consultation on charity law. The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 governs the operation of over 24,000 charities across Scotland (with over 180,000 charity trus

There was a 10 per cent increase in the number of civil cases begun across the Court of Session and sheriff courts in 2017-18, new figures show. The latest civil justice statistics, published by Scotland’s chief statistician today, show that 81,200 civil law cases were initiated across the Cou

A police officer made an arrest while stark naked after recognising an on-the-run criminal in a sauna. The criminal, who had fled after being convicted of drug offences and attempted assault on an official, is now safely in police custody.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called for action to improve mental health in prisons, following the publication of the Deaths in Custody report by Aamer Anwar and the family of Katie Allan, a young woman who tragically committed suicide in prison. The report highlights, among other things, that

Tens of thousands of convictions for cannabis possession could be dismissed or reduced automatically under a pioneering scheme launched by prosecutors in California. District Attorneys Jackie Lacey of Los Angeles County and Tori Verber Salazar of San Joaquin County have jointly announced their parti

Barristers accused of professional misconduct in England and Wales will now have claims against them assessed on a balance of probabilities, the civil standard of proof, as opposed to the criminal standard of beyond all reasonable doubt. Rules came into force yesterday that could see more barri

Revised UK immigration rules go "against the grain" of the Good Friday Agreement because they remove the right of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to be treated as EU nationals, human rights chiefs have warned. Les Allamby, chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)

Two operettas by author Alexander McCall Smith and his musical collaborator Tom Cunningham are to be presented at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in Edinburgh on Sunday 14 April for an evening of splendid music and drama in aid of a very good cause. The double-bill will bring to

Court forms used to seek the views of children in family and civil partnership actions are to be replaced with revamped child-friendly versions. The Family Law Committee of the Scottish Civil Justice Council has carried out work on an instrument that will replace the current court form.

Lawyers for US citizen Bilal Abdul Kareem have filed their response to the government in a case that will establish whether the US can assassinate its own citizens, without telling them why or offering them their constitutional right to due process. Mr Kareem alleges that he was nearly killed by US

Tuesday, 30 April 2019 Mackenzie Building, High St, Edinburgh