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A court in Hong Kong relied on a ruling by judges including Lord Reed to jail a member of the territory's parliament. Fernando Cheung, 64, a former Labour Party member of the Hong Kong legislative council (LegCo), was imprisoned for three weeks over a 45-minute anti-Beijing chant he delivered in 202

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, has appointed Sheriff Pino Di Emidio as director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland. Sheriff Di Emidio will take up the post on 1 April 2022 for a period of three years.

The recent changes to the Highway Code have been widely reported. However, the initial worries of chaos on UK roads, gridlock as city traffic is paralysed by cyclists hogging the roads, or pedestrians making a dive in front of traffic in crash for cash bids have all gone unfounded. Quite frankly, no

Julian Assange should be taken out of prison and placed under house arrest, according to a United Nations expert. Mr Assange has been held at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London since his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy in April 2019, where he had spent seven years in order to avoid extradition.

I am delighted to have been asked to provide a review for David Flint’s latest book – his 23rd publication, and that includes Stair and Halsbury. Even for a full-time academic that would constitute an impressive body of work; for a busy solicitor like Mr Flint it is nothing short of incr

A preschool in north-eastern Ukraine was hit on Friday morning with widely-banned cluster munitions while civilians took shelter inside, killing three of them, including a child, and wounding another child, Amnesty International has said. The attack appears to have been carried out by Russian forces

A sole practitioner solicitor who was found to have unfairly dismissed his receptionist by an employment tribunal and ordered to pay her over £15,000 in compensation has lost an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal against the decision. The appellant, Mr W Finlayson (trading as Finlaysons)

For the final article in Shepherd and Wedderburn's LGBT+ History Month series on ‘Politics in Art: The Arc is Long’, Zachary Stewart discusses his favourite TV series, Schitt’s Creek. Many may view this choice as dubious at first but the subtlety of this show’s approach

France’s Court of Cassation has upheld a ban on advocates wearing religious symbols with their robes in courtrooms. In June 2019, the Lille Bar Council told its members they would not be permitted to wear “decorations or signs” displaying “religious, philosophical, community

A portrait of Lady Dorrian, commissioned to mark her appointment as the first woman to hold the office of Lord Justice Clark, has been unveiled in Parliament Hall. Speaking at the unveiling, Dean of the Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, said the portrait would join “those of two other female trailblaz

The Faculty of Advocates’ scholarship programmes aim to remove barriers to membership of the Scottish bar for those with the skills and motivation to practise as advocates. Applications are now invited from those considering commencing devilling in 2023. Four scholarship schemes are available

New offences including stirring up hatred against women and girls and public misogynistic harassment have been proposed in a report published today by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC's working group. Justice Secretary Keith Brown has welcomed publication of the report on Misogyny and Criminal Justic

A Russian air strike that reportedly killed 47 civilians in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv may constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said following an investigation into the attack. At approximately 12.15pm on Thursday 3 March, the small public square formed by Chernihiv’s Viacheslava

As the US passes a bill named for a young boy whose brutal racist murder shocked America and the wider world, SLN takes at look at the the case and the injustice that followed. On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, was tortured and murdered by t

Harper Macleod aims to grow its number of modern apprentices as it congratulates its latest cohort of successful graduates coming through the programme.