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A report setting out the progress made throughout 2014 to implement the UK government's counter-terrorism strategy has been published by the home secretary Theresa May. It outlines the current threat to the country from terrorism and how the government is responding using the four-strand structure o

From left: Stacey Bairner, Craig Morrison, Alan Cassels and Victoria Miller

A new report from the Intelligence and Security Committee says that the legal framework for surveillance is "unnecessarily complicated" and "lacks transparency". The 149-page document was prepared after an in-depth inquiry into UK security agencies, which investigated "the degree to which they intru

Seventeen members of the Faculty of Advocates have been appointed to a new panel of counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The commission has drawn up two groups, for Scotland and for England and Wales. In total, there are 81 advocates, barristers and solicitor advocates who wi

MacRoberts has appointed John McGovern (pictured) partner. Mr McGovern heads a three-strong team appointed by the firm to further strengthen the intellectual property, technology & commercial (IPTC) practice group.

The rights of over 1,000 UK prisoners were breached when they were disallowed from voting in elections judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled after inmates who were prevented from voting during elections between 2009 and 2011 brought a case to the Strasbourg court. In today's judgme

A barrister has provoked a backlash after he said men should not be prosecuted for rape in situations where a woman is drunk. David Osborne said courts should throw cases out where complainants said they were unable to give consent because they had been drinking.

BDO, the liquidators of former football club Glasgow Rangers FC, have banked £24 million for the defunct club’s creditors.

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of a climbing instructor and two climbers in Glencoe has made no recommendations in terms of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016 after he found that they died after a slip or fall and there was no precaution tha

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of the Scottish courts since 2013 in relation to the admission of evidence in trials for sexual offences is liable to infringe defendants’ rights under Article 6 ECHR but dismissed two appeals on that basis presented to the court after finding t

Scotland’s most senior judge has highlighted the importance of the rule of law and judicial independence during a speech at the annual opening of the legal year ceremony. Addressing attendees at Parliament House in Edinburgh, the Lord President, Lord Pentland, stressed that the judiciary must

Scotland has never quite had an artist like John Bellany, and probably never will again. Correction: delete ‘probably’. His work has had a force and an impact which few of his generation could replicate, and he was so doggedly sui generis that we must hesitate to classify him as simply S

The history of the harms caused by asbestos is a long and painful one. Since the start of the large-scale commercial exploitation of the mineral in the 19th century, evidence of its damaging effects has been noted and well documented. In the United Kingdom diseases caused by dust exposure were among

Hostilities ended in Europe 80 years ago today on 8 May 1945. This was commemorated as Victory in Europe Day (VE). Along with everyone else, the legal profession in Scotland was impacted by the deaths of a number of its members. To remember those who died, the WS Society compiled a list of their mem