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The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has backed a new report on the regulation of legal services south of the border. The review by Stephen Mayson, honorary professor of law at University College, London, said a single regulator should regulate all providers of legal services.

Palestine solidarity campaigners who were convicted and fined for promoting a boycott of Israeli products suffered a violation of their human rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In today's Chamber judgment, only available in French, the court held unanimously that there had

Four Scottish universities have been ranked in the top 10 for law in the latest Complete University Guide.

A statue of William of Orange in Glasgow has been put under police guard after it was vandalised. The statue, erected in 1735, is under 24-hour watch amid fears it will become a flashpoint for trouble.

President Donald Trump has authorised economic sanctions and visa restrictions against International Criminal Court staff investigating the alleged war crimes of American and Israeli troops. He declared a national emergency over “attempts by the ICC to assert authority over US personnel withou

Data published today shows there has been an increase in the number of charges reported in 2019-20 for all categories of hate crime compared to the previous year. Racial crime remains the most commonly reported hate crime. In total 3,038 charges relating to race crime were reported in 2019-20, an in

More than 50 per cent of lawyers would like to permanently work from home for most of the week once the pandemic abates, RollOnFriday reports. The website's poll of over 2,500 lawyers and law firm staff found a significant shift in preferences towards working from home.

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An open day to give senior school pupils and university students an insight into life as an advocate is going virtual. The Open Day proved a huge hit last year, but with COVID-19 restricting access to Parliament House, it is moving online.Monday, 13 July - from 10am to 4:30pm - is the date to be not

Rights groups in Northern Ireland and Scotland are joining together to organise a free webinar on changes to the UK’s rules on settled status for EU citizens. The changes will benefit certain family members of British, Irish, and dual British-Irish citizens, if those citizens were born in Nort

The proprietors of an 18th-century house in the Argyll and Bute area have had their appeal against the decision not to reduce a grant of planning permission to erect a house near the property refused. Colin Liddell and others petitioned for judicial review of a decision by Argyll and

Creditors will lose out on £1.2 million owed to them following the collapse of law firm Hamilton Burns WS. Staff of the firm, of which ex-SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh was once a partner, are also unlikely to receive the £20,908 owed them in salary, holiday pay and pension contributions.

Clyde & Co has announced a virtual liability conference to replace its annual event which ordinarily takes place in Glasgow. On 24 June the firm hosts a live Q&A session online at 2pm with some of Clyde & Co's Scottish legal experts. The session covers the unprecedented impact of COVID-1

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has written to the Scottish Human Rights Commission asking it to ensure that the human rights of Scotland’s care home residents are upheld and defended throughout the COVID-19 crisis, and that decisions taken by the Scottish government with regards to car

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death.