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Audrey Gaughran A human rights group has called on Nigeria, the UK and the Netherlands to launch investigations into Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over its role in crimes committed by the Nigerian military government in the oil-producing Ogoniland region in the 1990s.

The Court of Session has ruled in favour of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) in refusing an application by a firm of solicitors for leave to appeal one of the commission’s decisions (case summary above).The application was unusual in that it came from a firm seeking leave to appeal

New Rules setting out when the Court of Session sits will come into force on 1 January 2018. In September, last year, the Lord President made Direction No 1 of 2016, under Chapter 10 of the Rules of the Court of Session, making provision to modernise the sittings of the court by abolishing the summe

Today marks 150 years since the birth of Lord Atkin of Aberdovey, a lawyer of Irish, Welsh and Australian origin who is recognised as one of the most influential jurists of the 20th century.

Pictured (L-R): Chris Allan, Helen Archibald from Thorntons with Gordon Hunter, Farquhar Printers.

Pictured: Olivia Laird, Morgan Forbes, Roman Burke, Anique Burke, Zosia Kuczok and Finlay McConnachie

Pictured (L-R): Jo Nisbet, Martin Darroch (both Harper Macleod), Jim Duffy, Al Walker and Sharon Mars (all Moonshot).

Austin Lafferty and John Mulholland are both in the running to become the next vice president of the Law Society of Scotland. Council members will vote for their preferred candidate and the result will be announced at the December meeting. The successful candidate will succeed current vice president

A Scots lawyer who was jailed for embezzling more than £260,000 from his aunt has been struck off the roll of solicitors after being found guilty of “professional misconduct”. William Walls was struck off following a separate complaint to the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT), whi

New figures have shown that despite a record number of solicitors in the year 2016/17, there were only 23 more complaints against the legal profession, representing less than one per cent of solicitor transactions. The number of Scottish solicitors holding a practising certificate during 2016/17 was

Pictured (L-R): Donald Findlay, Shelagh McCall, Frances Barber, Joyce McMillan, Lin Anderson and Sue Black. Photograph: Phoebe Grigor.

Advocate Neil Beynon reflects on the performances of the Faculty of Advocates Choir ahead of its 21st charity concert in Edinburgh next month.

Raymond Murphy Professor Raymond Murphy of the Irish Centre For Human Rights at NUI Galway writes following the successful prosecution of Ratko Mladić.

The UK Supreme Court will sit in Belfast for the first time in April next year. The court will sit in the Inns of Court Library at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast, where Supreme Court President Lady Hale will be joined by Deputy President Lord Mance, Lord Kerr (former Lord Chief Justice of No

Lady Hale In 2017, Lady Hale became the first woman to be appointed President of the UK Supreme Court.