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The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is calling on practitioners to respond to a survey on the issue of retaining lawyers in Scotland. With more and more lawyers moving to different jurisdictions or leaving the profession altogether the association has created a survey to identif

Divorcees looking for additonal payments from their former spouses were dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled a woman who spent all her settlement money cannot claim more from her ex-husband. Graham Mills, 52, challenged a Court of Appeal order mandating that he pay an extra £4,090 a year

Annabel Twose of First 100 Years writes about Jessie Chrystal Macmillan, a Scottish feminist, barrister and politician. She was the first female science graduate from the University of Edinburgh; the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords and a founder of the Women’s Intern

A tourist was charged and fined after she brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport. The 24-year-old found the munition while out walking in the Dachstein mountains, police in Lower Austria said.

The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators, since 2011, to cement its dominant position as the leading internet search engine. The tech giant must now bring

Tommy Sheridan is appealing a decision to refuse him £200,000 in interest on a payout for defamation against former newspaper the News of the World. Mr Sheridan, a former MSP and one-time leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, won the sum after suing the publishers in 2006 at the Court of Ses

The number of criminals breaching home detention curfews rose last year, with more than one in five offenders now being recalled to jail, figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have revealed. Of the 1,434 individuals granted early releases from prison, 300 breached the order. That compa

Legal changes aimed at criminalising assistance to irregular migrants – meant to deter human trafficking – must not imperil human rights, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has said. The CCBE said in a statement that it "wishes to express its utmost concern regar

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) latest survey claimed properties are taking longer to sell due to the “uninspiring” UK housing market. Last spring, it took an average of 16 weeks between a home being listed and being sold, according to RICS. However, ESPC said it believ

The text of Lady Hale's speech delivered in Edinburgh in June has been published. The speech, Devolution and the Supreme Court – 20 years On, was delivered at the Scottish Public Law Group 2018 in the Signet Library last month.

Sir Cliff Richard has won a major privacy lawsuit against the BBC over its coverage of a police investigation into him.Mr Justice Mann, sitting in the High Court in London, awarded £210,000 in damages, one of the largest-ever sums in this area of law.Sir Cliff was repr

Five women who are the daughters of hereditary peers are taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over their ineligibility to stand for election to the House of Lords.The women, part of the Daughters' Rights campaign and represented by DLA Piper, argu

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Library Service has won the 2018 LexisLibrary Award for Excellence. Roddy Waldhelm, Head of the Solicitor’s Legal Information Centre (Scottish Legal Directorate) collected the award at the BIALL Annual Dinner in Birmingham on 8 June.

A construction company involved in the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry which challenged a decision by the inquiry chairman ordering it to release “commercially sensitive” reports has failed in an appeal to prevent disclosure of the information. Bilfinger Construction had sought a restriction orde