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Lawyers Without Borders Student Division at Aberdeen University hosted its fifth annual human rights conference on Monday. The topic was "Refugee Protection: Are refugees afforded sufficient protection under human rights law?" The conference was opened by student president Max Wiktorsson followed by

If you’re a Diploma or LLB student in your final or penultimate year, the Law Society of Scotland is offering you the chance to win three weeks’ paid work experience in the Scottish Parliament’s Legal Services team as well as a £500 cash prize. To enter, the society asks entr

The governor of California has announced an immediate moratorium on the use of the death. Governor Gavin Newsom, who was sworn in at the start of the year, will today sign an executive order granting a reprieve to prisoners on death row and closing down the execution chamber at San Quentin State Pri

A lecturer at a top Scottish university was reported to police over an alleged "hate crime" after quoting Trainspotting on Instagram. James Mooney, a film and philosophy lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, screened the cult classic for a delegation of visiting American students last month.

A bank employee who stole more than £50,000 from customers’ accounts has had his sentence reduced following an appeal. Rameez Hamid, who was sentenced to the three years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to embezzling some £51,000, argued that the custodial term was “

There is a risk that sentencing guidelines may ultimately lead to higher sentences because of public perception of cases deemed high profile by the media, the Lord President, Lord Carloway has said. In an address to the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow on case management and sentencing, Lord

The "seemingly innocuous" Children (Equal Protection from Assault) Bill is currently making its way through Holyrood. Nevertheless, certain aspects of this bill should give us pause for thought, writes Michael Sheridan. On the face of it, it proposes the seemingly rational objective of criminalising

Nadine Martin, an associate in the family law team at Harper Macleod, has joined a select band of solicitors who have achieved a full set of family law related specialist accreditations from the Law Society of Scotland. Ms Martin has recently been accredited as a specialist in child law, which cover

Members of the independent panel tasked with reviewing Scotland’s planning system are close to withdrawing their support for the current Planning (Scotland) Bill. In a letter to planning minister Kevin Stewart, Crawford Beveridge, Petra Biberbach and John Hamilton, joined calls by the Scottish

Thorntons has appointed Neil Darling as an associate in its land and rural business team in Edinburgh.  Mr Darling, from Galashiels, has specialisms in forestry, development in the countryside, renewables, minerals and agricultural matters.

Shona Young and Sandra Robertson have joined Gilson Gray's North Berwick office. Ms Young specialises in family law while Ms Robertson is a financial advisor.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has affirmed that EU member states can, where certain conditions are met, remove citizenship from dual nationals even if that would lead to them losing their EU citizenship status. However, it added, the principle of proportionality requires an indiv

Two American judges who argue for accused persons to be treated with more compassion and kindness have come to Scotland to teach people about procedural justice. Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren and Judge Victoria Pratt are on a week-long visit at the invitation of Community Justice Scotland, a public agenc

A real estate lawyer from Brodies is set to take part in this year’s (A Little Less) Strictly competition, a key fundraiser for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is the only Scottish-headquartered law firm to be ranked in the inaugural list of the UK’s top 25 legal employers for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. The firm is ranked 19th in the Top 25 in the legal sector listing, published by Stonewall and the InterLaw