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Scottish government proposals for land reform need to be coherent, clear and workable, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The Law Society has submitted its response to the Scottish government’s consultation on the future of land reform in Scotland.

The rights of over 1,000 UK prisoners were breached when they were disallowed from voting in elections judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled after inmates who were prevented from voting during elections between 2009 and 2011 brought a case to the Strasbourg court. In today's judgme

A Turkish national who was refused leave to remain in the UK despite claiming that he had established a family and private life has had a petition for judicial review of the decision dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Petitioner Halit Genc, 24, challenged the decision taken by the Upper T

A barrister has provoked a backlash after he said men should not be prosecuted for rape in situations where a woman is drunk. David Osborne said courts should throw cases out where complainants said they were unable to give consent because they had been drinking.

Donald Findlay QC Donald Findlay QC was on good form at the Criminal Law Masterclassin Glasgow at the weekend which drew over 100 lawyers from across Scotland.

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A law meant to reduce the number of people being put in prison has had little effect as thousands of prisoners are still being imprisoned for three months or less The Herald reports. About one third of sentences handed out by courts are for a period of weeks, despite the then justice minister Kenny

Fired staff at a clothing firm are taking legal action after they reportedly were given just 15 minutes of consultation over the risk posed to their jobs. Thompsons Solicitors are to represent workers at USC, which went into administration, losing 79 permanent staff and 166 agency or zero-hours cont

Calls have been made for clarity over the public’s right to use railway level crossings. A decade after access rights were secured for much of the country’s land and water under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, Ramblers Scotland wants the Scottish parliament to re-examine the legislation.

The Law Society of Scotland has launched a two-week consultation with its members on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's draft operating plan and budget for 2015/16. The plan includes SLCC fees which practising solicitors will be required to pay to the Law Society by 30 June of this year.

A miners’ union member who claimed that the successful candidate for election as president was “ineligible to stand” has failed in an appeal. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the certification officer did not err in dismissing a complaint by Stephen Mace that Nicky Wilson should not ha

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the appeal of a campaign group challenging consent to build a windfarm on Shetland granted in 2012. Sustainable Shetland (SS) challenged a consent for a large windfarm in the Central Mainland of Shetland granted under s.36 of the Electricity Act 1989 on

Shepherd and Wedderburn will be speaking at this month’s Global Law Summit in London, dubbed by former attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC MP, as the “Davos of where law meets business”. John MacKenzie, solicitor advocate and head of the firm’s commercial dispute resolution division(pictured

David Morgan (pictured) discusses the ECJ’s interpretation of “establishment” in respect of collective redundancy in a case involving defunct retailer Woolworths. The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered his opinion in the hotly anticipated and widely re

Edinburgh city councillors have approved a compensation deal for the families affected by the Mortonhall baby ashes scandal. The settlement was announced last month and means that 129 families who raised legal claims will no longer have to pursue them.