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Photo credit: "Jesse Jackson 2013" by AFGE - https://www.flickr.com/photos/afge/10196156245/. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson (pictured) is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh at the Edinburgh International Boo

Scotland’s role in the international slave trade is one of the subjects being discussed as the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics. Now in its 11th year, this year’s programme has more than 30 events.

Dominic Grieve Please note there are no longer any places available for this event - only waitlist tickets are available - and it will now be held in Laigh Hall, Parliament House, Edinburgh.

The Criminal Appeal Court has published its opinion following the refusal of an application by relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims who were seeking to pursue an appeal on behalf of the man convicted of the atrocity in which 270 people were killed. An application to the Scottish Criminal Cases Rev

Christine McLintock The Law Society of Scotland will extend the offer of membership to non-solicitors as part of a five-year strategy designed to expand its range of services.

The death of a foster carer who was stabbed by the boy she was caring for could have been avoided, an inquiry has ruled. A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) conducted before Sheriff David Bicket in Motherwell's GLO Centre has heard that Dawn McKenzie, 34, could still be alive if Foster Care Associates Sc

Sir John Chilcot The families of British soldiers who died fighting in Iraq are warning they may take legal action against the head of the inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war and its involvement in Iraq until 2009.

Male doctors are nearly two-and-a-half times more likely to face legal action than their female counterparts, according to research published in the BMC Medicine open access journal. The study by researchers at University College London was based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 32 studie

Kathleen Gaughan Kathleen Gaughan has recently joined Lindsays' dispute resolution & litigation (DRL) team in Edinburgh as a trainee solicitor.

The City of Edinburgh Council will shortly be tendering for its new "Provision of Legal Services Framework".

Seventeen barristers at a single chambers are being investigated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) over a “failure to act appropriately towards pupils”. The BSB said the complaint was “another instance where a single issue has a significant impact on our workload and enforcement statistics”.

Christine McLintock, president of the Law Society of Scotland The Law Society of Scotland has published details of a five-year strategy designed to expand the range of services offered to its members and offer membership to other legal professionals.

A Scottish solicitor who entered into a sexual relationship with a “vulnerable” client has been found guilty of professional misconduct. The unnamed lawyer was fined £5,000 by the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) for “acting in a manner that raised issues as to his trustworthine

The man charged with the murder of Irish student Karen Buckley pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday. Alexander Pacteau, 21, admitted grabbing Ms Buckley by the neck and hitting her repeatedly with a spanner while sitting in his parked car in the early hours of Sunday 12 April.

Angus Sinclair, the man convicted last year of committing the World's End Murders in 1977, has dropped the appeal against his conviction. However, he is continuing to appeal against his minimum sentence of 37 years, the longest ever handed down by a court in Scotland, according to BBC News.