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Defence solicitors are to resume their boycott of summary domestic abuse cases from next month. The Scottish Solicitors' Bar Association announced that none of its members will accept instructions in summary prosecutions involving section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2022 – nor will

Yvonne Evans, a senior lecturer in law at University of Dundee, has been elected chair of the the Law Society of Scotland Board of Examiners, succeeding Richard Whitecross. The board oversees the assessment of lawyers re-qualifying into Scotland, as well as setting the Law Society professi

Three secondary schools will next month go head-to-head in the final of a public speaking contest. Pupils from Shawlands Academy, Glasgow, Trinity High School, Renfrew, and Dalziel High School in Motherwell will battle it out in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s national schools

The Law Society of Scotland has paid tribute to former Council member and in-house solicitor Janet Hood, who passed away last week. Law Society president Susan Murray said: “I am deeply saddened to hear of the death of former Law Society Council member Janet Hood.

Legislation establishing an Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) has been approved by UK MPs in one of their final acts before the coming general election. The approval of the Victims and Prisoners Bill comes days after the Infected Blood Inquiry concluded that the infection of around 30,000

Israel is defying an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling ordering it to halt its military offensive in Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip where nearly 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering. After considering an application from South Africa, the UN's top court on Friday ordered Isr

Pro-Palestinian protesters at New York University (NYU) are being ordered to watch an episode of The Simpsons as punishment. Lisa Gets an "A", a 1998 episode of the long-running cartoon sitcom, forms part of a course on "morality and ethics" which suspended students have been told they must complete

The UK should introduce a 'Hillsborough law' placing a broad duty of candour on public bodies and providing enhanced legal support for families, an influential Westminster committee has recommended. The 39-page report from Westminster's joint committee on human rights follows campaigning by Hillsbor

Dilapidations in the current financial climate are to be considered at next month’s Commercial Property Conference. The impact of repairing obligations on contemporary dilapidations claims will be examined at CLT Scotland’s Commercial Property Conference which will take place online on 5

A new law restricting the use of AI-generated 'deepfakes' has been drafted with the use of ChatGPT. Alexander Kolodin, a Republican in Arizona's state legislature, said he relied on the generative AI tool to help him define the term 'deepfake', which generally refers to highly-convincing fake images

The Law Society of Scotland has called for criminal court hearings held on public holidays to be ended, because of the negative impact they are having on practitioners and their clients. The society has written to the Lord President, Lord Carloway to voice serious concerns about so-called holiday co

The family of F1 legend Michael Schumacher has won a legal case against the publisher of a magazine which printed an AI-generated interview with him last year. The German tabloid Die Aktuelle printed on its April 2023 cover the words “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!”

The European Union is to use interest accrued from frozen Russian assets worth around €210 billion to support Ukraine. The decision by the EU's General Affairs Council will benefit Ukraine to the tune of between €2.5 billion and €3 billion per year.

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The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi must not deny people in Iran their right to truth and justice for a litany of crimes under international law committed during his time in the higher echelons of power, human rights campaigners have said. Raisi and Iranian foreign affairs minister Hossein