President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed has resigned as a judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal a day before he is due to deliver a lecture in Edinburgh on human rights. Lord Reed, who has submitted his resignation along with Lord Hodge, said that he has been "closely monitoring and assessin
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Two men who were convicted of attempting to communicate with children for sexual gratification based on evidence gathered by “paedophile hunter” groups have had their appeals against conviction refused by the High Court of Justiciary. John Quinn and Mark Sutherland argued that the eviden
A Scots litigator has co-authored a new book on electronic music giants Depeche Mode.
The final part in David J Black's forensic examination of the ME/CFS scandal looks at alleged scientific misconduct and a possible cover-up. Read the last part here. The tragedy of the putative ME/CFS scandal as the revelations following the PACE controversy emerged, was that, for a time, thing
The Scottish government should act to review the scope of its new land interests register in the wake of proposed UK legislation to force overseas entities to declare their ‘beneficial owner’. Certain categories of property owners in Scotland who do not make the actual decisions about wh
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his lawyer Stella Moris today at HMP Belmarsh. Vivienne Westwood has designed a wedding dress for Ms Moris and a kilt for Mr Assange, whose parents have links to Scotland.
The Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian and Lord Woolman have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. They are among 80 new fellows, including Annie Lennox OBE.
The proposed repeal of the Human Rights Act would “wind the constitutional clock back to the 1990s” and is “particularly unwise” now because of the actions of Russia in Ukraine, experts have warned. Government plans to replace the legislation with a British Bill of Rights wou
Legal requirements to wear face coverings on public transport and most indoor public settings will continue until at least early April given the current spike in Covid case numbers, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. Remaining legal requirements for businesses and service providers to collect
The criminal legal aid sector south of the border is to receive up to an extra £135 million a year following a consultation, the UK government has announced. The move follows an announcement this week that 94 per cent of Criminal Bar Association members had voted in favour of industrial action
Melanie Phillips may not be everyone’s favourite journalist or radio opinion former but who could fail to share her astonishment in The Times at the outcome of one of the greatest corporate injustices of our time? Inexplicably, no-one, it seems, was responsible for the relentless persecution a
David Conlan Smyth SC, Anna Bazarchina BL, William Morrin BL and Patrick Fitzgerald BL – members of the EU Bar Association of Ireland – unpick the legal hurdles and steps involved in Ukraine becoming a member state of the European Union. On 28 February 2022, just four days after being in
DLA Piper is celebrating International Women’s Day with an online event designed to #BreakTheBias around climate change and gender. The event will be held in conjunction with the firm's gender balance network Leadership Alliance for Women (LAW) on Thursday. Salla Tuominen, a partner in DLA Pip
The Inner House of the Court of Session has upheld a judicial review decision that the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation could have misconduct proceedings instigated against him after he engaged in a Twitter argument with the solicitor of Sheku Bayoh’s family following his de
France’s Court of Cassation has upheld a ban on advocates wearing religious symbols with their robes in courtrooms. In June 2019, the Lille Bar Council told its members they would not be permitted to wear “decorations or signs” displaying “religious, philosophical, community
