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The Scotsman has published an obituary for Professor Alan Watson, the renowned legal scholar who passed away last month at the age of 85. "One of the outstanding legal scholars of the last hundred years, Alan Watson was recognised around the world. With his death we lose yet another link that took u

Murdo MacLeod QC has been shortlisted by Legal 500 in the category of Scottish Silk of the year. He has been recognized following appearances in the Queensferry Crossing FAI, the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry and FAIs into the deaths of a prisoner and a care provider.

The Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) has published a student edition of its monthly legal journal with the support of the Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland. The edition, which is accessible free of charge for all law students in Scotland, contains a host of information ab

Four Latvian men have been sentenced to a total of 19 years and eight months for serious and organised crime offences. Hardijs Langsteins, 37, Maris Kursis, 30, Arvids Civkors, 30, and Aivars Dzagarjans, 38, were all convicted of agreeing to become involved in serious and organised crime by doing th

People will be able to participate in court hearings via their smartphones, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon explained the move would allow people on low incomes access to the justice system, The Times reports.

A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to the town hall.

Today, Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona released his 26-page Opinion on the question whether the UK can revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU. His view is that the CJEU should decide that it can and that it should declare that Article 50 of the Treaty

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

A woman found guilty of assaulting another woman to her severe injury and permanent disfigurement by repeatedly punching and kicking her on the head and body after the jury deleted from the libel the words “and strike her head against vivarium and repeatedly strike her on the body with glass&r

Professor Steven Peers of University of Essex School of Law explains and comments on today's opinion from Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona on the revocability of Article 50. Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to c

Scotland's prison population increased by nine per cent and its remand population by 19 per cent, while the number of prison places has risen by 23 per cent between 2005 and 2015, a report from the Council of Europe shows. The in Prisons in Europe, 2005-2015 report includes data on ten-year trends i

A revision of the law governing motorsports events has been proposed in an attempt to bring them back to Scotland's roads. Organisers have been unable to secure insurance since three spectators died at the Jim Clark Rally in the Borders three years ago.

Advocate Laurence Kennedy has been appointed to the IMPRESS Arbitration Panel. Mr Kennedy, who is also an experienced tribunal judge, is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He started his career as a solicitor in 1995 and called to the bar in 2000.

The number of English and Welsh solicitors applying to join the Irish roll of solicitors has "surged again" in 2018, according to new figures from the Law Society of Ireland. A total of 601 solicitors from England and Wales joined the Irish roll in 2018, and 156 more applications are currently being

A woman whose husband was killed in Kenya has called for the role of the UK government in the "unfair" prosecution and trial of the "innocent" man convicted of killing him to be investigated. Judith Tebbutt, a British tourist kidnapped in Kenya in 2011 with her husband David, who was kille