Kapil Summan

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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has made a reference to the High Court of Justiciary in a bid to expand the evidential value of 'distress' in rape cases. A seven-judge panel will decide whether or not to overturn the 1997 case of Smith v Lees, in which a bench of five decided that the distress of a co

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Scots lawyers are overwhelmingly in favour of a four-day work week, a Scottish Legal News poll has, unsurprisingly, found. Of the 331 responses to our survey, 286 readers, or 86.4 per cent, answered 'yes' to the question: Do you believe that lawyers should work a four-day week?

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Said to be a 'living instrument', the European Convention on Human Rights was conceived in the throes of reconciliatory passion in May 1948 at the Congress of Europe in The Hague. It was brought to term by more than a hundred parliamentarians from across the region, including the Edinburgh-born Cons

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The Scottish government's latest publication on our controversial third verdict – responses to a consultation on its future – reveals that the public and practitioners alike impute to it their own meaning to suit their own ends. Like some intractable theological question, it has bred zea

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Overnight QC Suella Braverman has thrown her hat into the Conservative leadership ring, overnight. Ms Braverman, who threatened to “take back control” from an interfering judiciary upon her appointment in February 2020, practised at the bar before becoming the MP for Fareham in

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A sheriff principal has expressed irritation with lawyers over "disorganised" and "simply bewildering" pleadings in a straightforward consumer claim. The case concerned a vehicle to which, it was argued, a towbar had been improperly fitted. The respondent sought to reject the vehicle and claim repay

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