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Willie McIntyre Several readers have contacted SLN to raise their concerns about the utterly inadequate legal aid rates of pay proposed for the new Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh.

A disabled woman who challenged a health board’s decision to cease providing homeopathic treatment has had a petition for judicial review dismissed.

MBM Commercial partner Cat MacLean  speaks to SLN in this week's Spotlight. What has been your best experience as a lawyer?

A challenge to legislation which will see a “named person” assigned to every child in Scotland has been refused by appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session. Four charities and three individuals contended that provisions in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 passed

Neil Stevenson The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's(SLCC) staff have chosen The Yard as their staff charity for their 2015-16 year.

At the High Court in Glasgow today, Lady Rae, sentenced Alexander Pacteau, 21, to life imprisonment for his “brutal, senseless” and “motiveless" murder of Irish student Karen Buckley with a punishment part of 23 years after the accused pled guilty to the murder. On sentencing, Lady Rae said: �

Sarah Baillie Sarah Baillie of Anderson Strathern has joined a select group of only 12 other Law Society of Scotland accredited specialists in planning law.

Glen Gilson Newcomers Gilson Gray have built on a successful first year in business by recruiting a batch of lawyers from the commercial dispute resolution and insolvency teams of Morisons Solicitors LLP.

An employee of Harrods who was unfairly dismissed for enforcing health and safety guidelines against two staff members has been awarded £18,000 by an employment tribunal. The Times reports that John Perrett, who was a security guard at the store, was dismissed for gross misconduct after he stopped

Lord Jonathan Sumption A Supreme Court judge has said it could take 50 years to achieve gender equality within the UK's senior judiciary.

An Indian woman kept as a servant and paid as little as 11p an hour has been given nearly £184,000 in compensation in one of the UK’s first caste discrimination cases. Permila Tirkey, from the state of Bihar, was kept in domestic servitude and forced to work as a nanny and cleaner by her Hindu em

The son of one of Scotland's law officers has been given a community payback order for assaulting his girlfriend. Andrew Thomson, 27, son of the Solicitor General Lesley Thomson, has been ordered to undertake 60 hours of unpaid work within three months after he attacked his partner.

A father-of-two who was jailed after being found guilty of abducting one of his sons has had an application for judicial review of decisions made by a Scottish local authority in respect of the children’s care refused. The basis of the petition was an allegation that the respondents had failed to

Lord Kinclaven Pupils from schools across Edinburgh have been cited to attend court this week, and will be given the chance to take the law into their own hands.