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The Edinburgh Student Law Review is holding an information evening on Monday the 5th of February at 5pm in the Basement Lecture Theatre in Doorway 6 of the Old Medical School.

Basic human rights have diminished in a majority of the 113 countries surveyed for a study measuring adherence to the rule of law. The 2017-2018 WJP Rule of Law Index measures countries’ rule of law performance across eight factors: constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open gov

Usman Tariq Advocate Usman Tariq has spoken to the School of Law at Glasgow University about his life at university and career so far at the Scottish bar.

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Maggie Moodie Morton Fraser has chosen to support SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) as its charity partner for 2018 as part of a wider focus on positive mental wellbeing in the workplace.

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Legislation requiring a gender balance on public sector boards has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Women, who comprise just over 50 per cent of the population in Scotland, currently make up 45 per cent of the membership on boards.

A prisoner who claimed that Scottish prison authorities “unlawfully” opened mail addressed to him and that the failure to treat correspondence between inmates and legal regulatory bodies of of other parts of the United Kingdom as confidential was “irrational” has had his case dismissed. Will

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern has increased turnover for the year to 31st August 2017 by 2.5 per cent to £21.5 million, boosted by major client wins, panel appointments and organic growth across its private client, commercial and public sector practice groups.

Family law is heading for “the wilderness of uncertainty” under current Brexit proposals, a senior member of the Faculty of Advocates has told MSPs. A second member called for consumer protection issues to be moved up the Brexit agenda.

New figures released today from mental health charity LawCare show the number of lawyers calling their helpline is increasing. The charity dealt with nearly 900 calls in 2017 from 616 callers, an 11 per cent increase on the number of callers in 2016. Nearly half of the solicitors and barristers who

Judith Robertson The Scottish Human Rights Commission, with the support of a range of leading civil society organisations, has today published guidance on a proposed amendment to the Social Security Bill that would see ministers placed under a duty to have ‘due regard’ to the international human

Baroness O’Loan The Catholic Church in Scotland has called for legislation in Scotland recognising “conscience rights” for health workers who do not wish to support abortion services following the introduction of such legislation south of the border.