Opinion

In the final article of the series on the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, the trustees look at an ongoing project that it is supporting. MiniTrials – an initiative begun by Scots lawyers to help schools find out more about the Scottish legal system – simulates court cases and is de

The Clark Foundation for Legal Education’s first awards were made in 1991. Since then, the foundation has made over 600 awards, write the trustees of the foundation in the fourth article on its history and impact. Past recipients are now senators of the College of Justice, King’s Counsel

The UK government has initiated a public consultation to develop a new tax mechanism aimed at providing a predictable fiscal response to future oil and gas price shocks, writes Jake Landman. The consultation is part of the government’s broader strategy regarding the future of the North Sea. It

Amber Ockenden from the Intellectual Property Office takes a look at the law surrounding everyone's favourite brick. LEGO was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932 and, remarkably, the family still owns the company. The name LEGO comes from two Danish words, “leg” and “godt&rdqu

Professor Andrew Steven explains how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education has enabled more than 100 students to attend an enlightening summer school on the Continent. In 2004, I was invited to lecture on Scots law at the European Private Law Summer School at Salzburg in Austria. The Summer Schoo

Almira Delibegović-Broome KC reflects on how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education helped her. I applied to the Clark Foundation in 1995, to cover my diploma in legal practice tuition fees at Edinburgh University. At that time, I was still an asylum seeker, having arrived to Scotland in 199

BTO has successfully defended an appeal to the Sheriff Appeal Court in a personal injury action concerning allegations of bullying and harassment by the respondent’s employees and a failure to provide a protective screen during Covid-19. The appellant alleged that these failures had caused her

A recently published letter from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) provides insight into the interactions between HMRC and the newly established Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) and on investigations and enforcement of the UK’s trade sanctions regime, writes Stacy Keen. Between 2021

A recent Court of Appeal decision (EE Limited v Virgin Mobile Limited [2025] EWCA Civ 20) relating to exclusions of liability is a useful reminder to contracts lawyers of the significance of these clauses, writes Liam McMonagle. The case involved a contact dispute. In 2013, EE agreed to supply 2G, 3

The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill has reached an advanced stage at Holyrood and the Scottish Law Agents Society welcomes many of the changes made to it. For the five reasons set out below, however, it is extremely concerned about the review provisions.

David J Black discerns traces of Scotland in America. See part one here. Alasdair Gray was the quintessential Glasgow author. The city is imprinted on his text, albeit with a hint of his idiosyncratic urban metaphysic. With a grid street plan and a wise-cracking populace well seasoned with the desce

Choices, choices, always choices. On February 25th it was between an event in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall marking the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, or a ‘Gray Day’ in Glasgow’s Oran Mohr marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Scotland&r

In a bid to speed up the global pace of achieving gender equality, this year’s theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) is ‘Accelerate Action’, write Emma Brown and Megan McNicoll. Part of the campaign is encouraging individuals to step forward in solidarity and "strike the

As AI develops further and is used more and more by professionals, there are questions over the extent of its use and if it can entirely replace some roles, or if it should instead be limited to assisting human expertise only. One such example of this is mediation, writes Nicole Kelly. Mediation is

Graham Johnston and Elizabeth McFarlane reflect on 25 years of the Family Court in Glasgow.  The introduction of divorce into the Sheriff Court in 1984 had a dramatic effect on the number of ordinary civil cases in the court. The sudden inflow of divorce cases (something in the region of 13,000