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Immediate and fundamental reform of the asylum system is required to prevent lock-change evictions, destitution and street homelessness of some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland, according to a new report.

A justice of the Supreme Court has hinted that the judiciary will not willingly cede any independence in a remark made during the swearing-in of Lord Hodge as deputy president of the court. Delivering some introductory words at the ceremony, Lord Wilson said it would be for Lord Hodge and Lord Reed,

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China: Outspoken Chinese lawyer critical of government missing in Wuhan, family says | NBC News

Cannabis is to be legally prescribed in Scotland at a clinic in Aberdeen. The unit aims to provide medicinal cannabis for “all conditions acknowledged to benefit from it”.

Robert Gordon University (RGU) is bringing together cybersecurity, law and technology experts for a unique conference, as part of Cyber Security Scotland Week 2020. This one-day conference will welcome expert keynote speakers from around the UK to discuss critical aspects of policy and cybersecurity

A fraudster who hid from police by pretending to be a nun has been jailed after being ousted from a convent. The 47-year-old Italian woman, who has not been named, moved from convent to convent to evade prison after a 2017 conviction for fraud.

A property developer who claimed that a Scottish local authority’s decision to demolish a leisure centre was “unlawful” has had his legal challenge dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session refused a petition for judicial review by Mark Guild, who was seeking reduction of the deci

John Campbell QC has been appointed as Scotland’s only representative panel arbitrator at the newly formed Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA), in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has grown out of a series of conferences and discussions within the Authentication in Art Mediation Board and the

The Scottish property market enjoyed a sharp rise in sales following Boris Johnson’s general election win, new research has revealed. Aberdein Considine’s Property Monitor report shows more than 10,000 homes changed hands in December, an unseasonal jump of 15 per cent on November an

The Supreme Court of India has made it mandatory for political parties to publish the names of candidates with criminal records and the reasons for which they are being fielded. The court said there was an "alarming rise" in "criminal candidates"  that had to be urgently addressed.

More than half a million pounds has been recovered from two men who made the cash selling “legal highs” online. An investigation was launched into Stuart Percival, 33, by the Civil Recovery Unit – a specialist team of expert solicitors and financial investigators working under inst

Some 58 per cent of women in the legal profession say they or women they work with have experienced inappropriate comments from male colleagues relating to their gender, new research has found. Almost half, 46 per cent, reported that either they or one of their colleagues had not complained about di

Dundee University has prevailed at the annual Lord Jones Moot competition. This year's competition saw 12 teams compete from the Universities of Dundee, Abertay, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Napier, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is to host the European Young Bar Association's Spring Conference in Glasgow between 23 and 26 April 2020. The topics for this year's conference are technology and the environment. They will be considered both as areas of the law and as issue effec

A homeowner who sued his former lawyers after they failed to advise him to include a survivorship clause when transferring the title of his property into the joint names of himself and his then fiancée, who later died and left her half-share to her children from a previous relationship, has h