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Opposition parties at Holyrood are considering attempting to force a no-confidence vote in the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC. The move comes after the Scottish government refused to publish legal advice given to it by Mr Wolffe on the judicial review of its investigation into complaints against for

Gillian Carty has been elected chair of Shepherd and Wedderburn. She will chair the firm's board, working closely with her fellow partners and Andrew Blain, Shepherd and Wedderburn’s managing partner, to chart the firm’s strategic direction over the next three years.

MSPs have called for public bodies to be compelled to publish employee ethnicity pay data to address “institutional racism” and tackle the “unacceptable” levels of unemployment and in-work poverty among minority ethnic communities in Scotland.  Holyrood’s Equalitie

A senior member of the Faculty of Advocates has been appointed to lead an inquiry following the sudden death of an employee of the City of Edinburgh Council. Susanne Tanner QC will chair the independent inquiry which is also to look at the culture within the council.

When a school teacher told the teenage Iain Smith he should downgrade his ambition to become a lawyer and focus on becoming a paralegal instead, it could have gone one of two ways: he could have thrown in the towel there and then or he could have resolved to work harder than ever to prove it was the

An international "people's tribunal" is to investigate atrocities that allegedly took place in Iran a year ago.

Thousands of elderly Spaniards are seeking to disinherit their children if they have neglected them during the lockdown. Spanish support networks for the elderly have reported a fivefold increase in calls from old people asking how to cut their children from their will.

Thousands of "Brexit refugee" solicitors based in England and Wales who have enrolled in Ireland since 2016 will be denied practising certificates, the Law Society of Ireland has said. Nearly 4,000 solicitors in England and Wales have joined the Irish roll since the EU referendum, apparently in a bi

Breast implants filled with liquid cocaine have been recovered in an anti-drugs police operation in Colombia. Police believe a gang in Cali, southwest of Bogotá, has been using the implants to ferry drugs to Spain, The Times reports.

The High Court in London recently heard an application which had as its aim the exclusion of evidence obtained in the course of law enforcement activity into the EncroChat platform. For reasons which this article will hopefully make obvious, that application will in time be remembered as simply the

A man who was imprisoned for three charges relating to indecent photographs of children and images depicting bestiality has lost his appeal against conviction.  John Leadbetter argued that a medical professional was required to confirm that images recovered from devices he owned were image

Four new commissioners have been appointed to the board of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) by women and equalities minister Liz Truss. Jessica Butcher MBE, David Goodhart and Su-Mei Thompson have been appointed to the board for a period of four years. In addition, the former presiden

Travellers arriving in Scotland this weekend from Greece – except the islands of Crete, Corfu, Kos, Rhodes and Zante – as well as the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus must quarantine on arrival for 14 days. A significant increase in cases of coronavirus (Covid-19)

Businesses which fail to ensure that any 'green' claims made in advertising can be substantiated are likely to breach UK advertising regulations and could result in reputational damage, writes Gill Dennis. Using green credentials as a marketing tool is entirely legitimate, provided those creden

Alastair Shepherd has been named as the new custodian of the Scottish Barony Register, succeeding Alistair Rennie. Mr Shepherd is currently a partner in Coulters Legal LLP, but is due to retire from private practice in April 2021, after 40 years as a solicitor, with Brodies, Henderson and Jackson WS