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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has asked three judges to toughen sentencing guidelines for rapists. She made her submissions at the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary, where the cases of three sex offenders are being considered.

An accountancy firm has expanded its presence in Edinburgh with the appointment of one of the city's best-known former lawyers. Greig Honeyman will advise leading figures at Douglas Home & Co, while tapping into his extensive network of family businesses, trusts, lawyers and corporate decision-m

The Law Society of Scotland has committed to improved support and oversight of trainee solicitors and training managers. The society’s Education and Training (Standard Setting) Sub-Committee has endorsed a number of changes in response to surveys of trainees and training managers conducted ear

Gillespie Macandrew has made a charitable donation of £40,000 to be shared between its two charity partners, Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) and Alzheimer Scotland. As part of its ESG programme, in each of the last seven years Gillespie Macandrew has donated around one per c

Threats to the presumption of innocence in Scotland and Australia is the subject of a new article by Helen Dale in the online magazine Law & Liberty. Ms Dale, who has law degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh, writes: "This month, in two jurisdictions where I’ve previously practised, there hav

In a new paper Terra Firma's Neil Beynon considers fiduciary duties owed by directors and rights enforceable by shareholders, with particular emphasis on their application within the oil and gas sector. In particular his paper looks at:

Squaring Circles founder and mediator, Rachael Bicknell, has been appointed to the President’s Panel of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) for mediation and as a certified mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). Ms Bicknell, who was recently

A new bill that will consolidate, reform and modernise long-standing laws governing the operation of trusts in Scotland has been published by Holyrood today. Scots trust law is widely considered to be out of date, and the main legislation is now just over a century old.

The Sexual Offences Review has published its webpage and terms of reference to give information to the public and professionals about its work on reviewing how the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) deals with reports of sexual offences. The review was commissioned by Lord Advocate

Dr Kirsteen Shields – senior lecturer in international law and food security at the University of Edinburgh, at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems – reflects on the most recent discussion of the Land and Human Rights Forum (LAHRAF), exploring food systems' concerns relate

Crime recorded by police remains lower than before the pandemic, according to new statistics released today. The latest National Statistics: Recorded Crime in Scotland bulletin shows recorded crime is four per cent down since the year ending September 2018, falling 42 per cent in total since 2006-07

Mediator John Sturrock KC has published A Mediator’s Musings: Volume 2, which gathers together much of his thinking and writing on a number of issues in the past couple of years. Topics include mediation practice and policy, politics and policy-making, the climate emergency, the war in Ukraine

CBI Scotland has announced the appointment of lawyer Jennifer Young as Scotland chair, unveiling an all-woman senior leadership team – a first for the organisation. Currently CBI Scotland's vice chair, Mrs Young is managing partner at Ledingham Chalmers. She will assume her role as chair in th

The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, has made a case for criminal prosecutions against Police Scotland over the death of Sheku Bayoh in 2015, The Sunday Times reports. Ms Bain represented the family of Mr Bayoh when she was at the bar. It has now emerged that she challenged the decision of her predec

Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop KC, has said he will represent pro-independence blogger Wings Over Scotland on a no win, no fee basis after he was banned from Twitter just 10 days after being readmitted to the platform. Responding to an appeal to raise funds for Wings Over Scotland, which is the perso