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The Scottish government has been criticised for its failure to implement elements of legislation intended to help victims, five years after it was enacted. Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Liam McArthur MSP chastised the Scottish government for “neglecting” its commitments to

A shipping magnate is launching another lawsuit against former RBS boss Fred Goodwin for as much as £3 billion, accusing him of using the firm's cash to help keep RBS afloat before its collapse. Taiwanese billionaire Nobu Su, 59, the chairman of Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT), has accused Mr Goodw

A man has been imprisoned for threatening that he would rise from the dead and kill a sheriff. Becklyn Mindjou, 27, was found guilty of various charges, among them breach of the peace, by Sheriff Gerard Bonnar at Glasgow Sheriff Court on March 29.

The number of claims lodged with the Employment Tribunal alleging discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has nearly doubled over the past year, The Times reports. There were 203 such claims in 2016/17 compared to 377 in 2017/18, which experts suggested was driven by changing social atti

This week the EU Parliament adopted a new revised draft of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Market. The proposed EU legislation includes some significant changes to the copyright regime and a couple of surprise additions introduced at the last minute by the EU Parliament, explains Ron Mosco

Congratulations to Emily Ross on winning the Shepherd & Wedderburn Prize for the best student in property law at Aberdeen University. Emily is pictured here being awarded the prize by Dr Susan Stokeld.

The public image of lawyers is all too often a distorted one: fat cats, divorced from the realities of life and absorbed with self-interest. As a consequence, certain aspects of legal life – and life at the bar is perhaps the clearest example – are often thought of as the preserve o

A campaign to have this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the world’s human rights defenders has received backing from the Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee. Peace Brigades International, a non-governmental organisation which supports human rights and p

A restaurant owner has been fined around £190 for putting up a sarcastic window sign asking people not to let their dogs pee on an outdoor flower pot. Duc's Place, a Vietnamese restaurant in the US state of Connecticut, put up a sign reading: "Attn: dog owners. This is a pay-per-pee flower pot

Morton Fraser has struck two deals to better position itself in the Scottish legal market. The firm has taken on the private client team from Addleshaw Goddard and has transferred its residential property team to Coulters, as it takes a minority stake in the estate agency.

Nine new Queen’s Counsel have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The new appointees are Una Doherty, advocate; Bruce Erroch, advocate; Jane Farquharson, advocate; Ruth Innes, advocate; Vinit Khurana, advocate; Ronaldo Renucci, advoc

A solicitors' tribunal has questioned delays over a professional misconduct hearing into Hamilton Burns partners Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and Nial Mickel, who are the subjects of a disciplinary action by the Law Society of Scotland. The Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) rais

A woman convicted of assault and then admonished and whose case was taken up by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and referred to the High Court of Justiciary, which refused the appeal, has, in an exceptional occurrence, had her case referred for a second time. The Scottis

The UK government has said claims that its Agriculture Bill is an attempt at a 'power grab' are "false and misleading" and that agriculture will "remain devolved" to Scotland. The government is not seeking consent from the Scottish Parliament on the bill because it is not legislating in areas of dev

Following much controversy surrounding the European Union’s proposed Copyright Directive, MEPs have voted again on the Directive, this time in a vote of support with 438 in favour, 226 against and with 39 abstentions, writes Euan Duncan. MEPs previously voted against the Directive in July of t