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Complaints of sexual harassment by solicitors in England and Wales rose sharply in 2017/18 in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said. The regulator's Upholding Professional Standards 2017/18 report reveals that it received 70 complaints about sexual haras

A defendant had his mouth taped shut on a judge's orders after repeatedly interrupting his sentencing hearing. The tape was only removed after the man's lawyer suggested he could simply be removed from the courtroom instead.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UK: Priti Patel's record on human rights prompts 'extreme concern' | The Guardian

Back in March, my colleague Tom Stocker discussed the findings of a House of Lords select committee which reviewed the 2010 Bribery Act, and specifically how businesses self-report suspected cases of bribery and corruption. While describing the act as “international gold standard” with l

Scottish Legal News is asking readers: which legal figure in the House of Commons has been most admirable in their conduct during the current Brexit imbroglio?  

Ofcom has fined the news channel RT £200,000 for serious failures to comply with its broadcasting rules – and required the channel to broadcast a summary of its findings to viewers. The regulator has rules in place requiring broadcast news to be presented with due impartiality and its in

Edinburgh tech business Neatebox has raised more than £180,000 from investors as it continues to capitalise on the market for its Welcome app, which gives businesses and venues advance notice of customers' disability requirements.

Blackadders’ highly-rated Employment Lawyer In Your Pocket podcast returns for another season on 6 September 2019.

Four years on from the M9 motorway crash in which John Yuill and Lamara Bell tragically died, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has warned that the current fatal accident inquiry (FAI) process urgently needs to be fixed and called for a full independent review of the FAI system. An FAI

A sheriff principal has found entirely in favour of the Standards Commission for Scotland, the first ever substantive appeal against one of its decisions, in a case providing that when acting in a quasi-judicial capacity the enhanced protection afforded politicians to make political comment, under t

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Jenny Broatch, Alasdair Docwra, Lydia Papandrianou, Lucy Metcalf and Clare Macpherson Thorntons has appointed Lucy Metcalf as a director in its family law team in the capital.

Technology companies have been invited to compete for £250,000 in funding from Nesta Challenges and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for projects which will widen access to legal support for individuals and businesses. The Legal Access Challenge is open to entries from now until

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) should extend its victim strategy to complainers of sexual crimes that are prosecuted in the sheriff solemn courts, a review has found.

A Scottish farming business is entitled to repayment of VAT paid in purchasing entitlements to an EU farm subsidy, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. The justices unanimously dismissed an appeal HMRC after ruling that when the respondent incurred the costs of the single farm pa

The impact of savage cuts in civil legal aid since 2012 has been so devastating that the UK’s most senior judge yesterday felt it necessary to broadcast an appeal for a legal charity. “I know how intimidating the civil and family courts can be for people without legal knowledge of help,&