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Geoffrey Cox has been sacked as Attorney General in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle. It has been reported that Mr Cox, known as 'Tory Gandalf' because of his deep voice, has been returned to the backbenches because he is not a "team player".

A new show will afford viewers an inside look at the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary. The court came into being after a miscarriage of justice when Oscar Slater was wrongly convicted for murder in 1909. His case became a cause celebre which was supported by several eminent names includi

The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill was introduced into the Scottish Parliament on 2 December 2019. Implementing many of the Scottish Law Commission’s recommendations on reforming the law of defamation in Scotland, it seeks to codify the current piecemeal approach to an ar

People with lived experience will lead the agenda at a Scottish conference on drug use in Glasgow. This event, at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on Wednesday 26 February, is being organised jointly by the Scottish government and Glasgow City Council.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland breached a man's privacy rights by indefinitely retaining his personal data after his drink driving conviction was spent, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Fergus Gaughran, from Newry, was arrested on suspicion of drink driving in October 20

Does the High Court have the power to stay the enforcement of an award given in accordance with the procedure in the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID)? This is the issue in Micula and others (Respondents/Cross-Appel

A 101-year-old man was told by UK immigration authorities to have his parents confirm his identity. Giovanni Palmerio, who has lived in London since 1966, hit the obstacle after applying to the EU settlement scheme to stay in the UK after Brexit, The Guardian reports.

A Scots lawyer who became embroiled in a “tense and heated” exchange of emails with a former client in which the solicitor said “what would you expect from a pig but a grunt” has been found guilty of “professional misconduct”. Ross Porter, 56, was censured by the&

Lord Bonomy has been appointed as the UK's judge on the United Nation's roster of judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Lord Bonomy graduated from Glasgow University and practised as a solicitor from 1970 until 1983. In 1984, he was admitted to the Scottish bar and,

The operator of a fishing vessel which lost a crewman overboard has admitted health and safety offences. 47-year-old Annang Neurtey was lost at sea after he was struck by a wire on board the 20 metre trawler, Aquarius.

Legislation is required to tackle high rents in Scotland as efforts to date have failed to make an impact, argues Mike Dailly. Truth be told we haven’t done much to address unfair rents for more than a century in Scotland.

Nine businesses are being probed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for potential breaches of the new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion, with 21 other potential cases under criminal review. Tax experts at Pinsent Masons said that the figures should act as

A Spanish company that stopped paying employees during smoking breaks has won a case in the country's high court. Galp, an energy firm, said it was implementing domestic law when it began deducting time spent off-premises from employees' working days.

An independent investigation report has found Police Scotland was not to blame for the injuries sustained by a disqualified motorcyclist who collided with a tree. When officers in Aberdeen came across the 28-year-old man just after midnight on 26 June 2019, they instructed him to stop but he failed

A new magazine published by the Constitutional Court of Colombia features a contribution by a member of the Faculty of Advocates. Ximena Vengoechea has written a chapter on “Asylum in the UK” for the online magazine, Constitutional Themes, produced by the court. The entire first edition