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A teenager who stabbed Newcastle lawyer Peter Duncan to death in August has been jailed for life. Ewan Ireland, who was 17 at the time, attacked Mr Duncan with a shoplifted screwdriver after the solicitor brushed past him outside a shopping centre in Newcastle city centre.

Poland has failed to adequately act on anti-corruption recommendations made by the Council of Europe in respect of the judiciary, prosecutors and members of parliament. In a follow up assessment on corruption, the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) found that Poland

Aaliya Seyal has been appointed chief executive of the Legal Services Agency (LSA). Ms Seyal takes from interim chief executive Ronald Franks and brings over 17 years’ experience in leading voluntary sector organisations.

Senior judges and lawyers paid tribute to Supreme Court President Lady Hale today at a valedictory ceremony marking her retirement next month.

A passenger on a coach which careered off a road and down an embankment at the “Rest and Be Thankful” has had a personal injury action for £15,000 damages rejected. A judge in the Court of Session dismissed the negligence claim after ruling that the accident was caused by

BTO has announced the appointment of solicitor Drew McCusker to its personal injury team. He will work alongside partner and solicitor advocate Stephen Bryceland. Mr McCusker completed an LLM in London before interning at the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya. He is founder and president of The Glass

With Christmas, and Brexit, fast approaching, it is a good time to consider how Brexit could affect Santa’s annual task of delivering presents to the children of the UK, writes Iain Halliday. Santa lives in Lapland, in Finland, so we can presume he is a Finnish (and therefore EU) citizen. At t

Pupils from 32 teams from schools across Scotland are through to the second stage of the Law Society of Scotland’s national debating tournament. The winning teams successfully put forward their arguments to the motion, ‘This House would introduce compulsory National Civic Service for all

Parliamentary sovereignty is "no longer an accurate description of the constitution in Scotland or the UK", the Scottish government said this morning as it launched a demand for legislation to be passed transferring the power to hold a referendum to Holyrood. In a paper entitled Scotland’

The process for investing in Scottish companies is to be streamlined thanks to a partnership between the national association for business angels and Burness Paull.LINC Scotland supports the business angel market, making targeted introductions to well-matched business angels and helping entrepr

The University of Strathclyde Law Clinic recently concluded its initial advisor training.

The High Court in London has today ruled the £1,012 fee the Home Office charges children to register as British citizens is unlawful. In a case brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC), the court found a “mass of evidence” showing that the

Govan Law Centre (GLC) is investigating the regulatory and legal issues surrounding fees believed to have been paid in relation to equal pay awards on behalf of 16,000 women in Glasgow to Action 4 Equality Scotland (A4ES), trade unions and law firms in Scotland. The fees paid are understood to be ap

A city police chief sacked over social media misconduct was replaced by a deputy who was almost immediately sacked for the same thing. Chief Brandon del Pozo resigned last week as police chief in Burlington, a college town in the US state of Vermont, after questions were asked about an anonymous Twi

With the recent discovery of Bronze Age carved stone figures in Orkney, the Gold Ring at Loch Lomond reported earlier this year and the Kirkcudbright Viking treasure saga that rumbles on from 2017 the law of who is entitled to what on a treasure find is back in the headlines again, writes Robin Dunl