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Dear Editor, Sheriff Principal Abercrombie’s review of the fatal accident system is to be welcomed. In my view, there are aspects of the system which cry out for such a review. The main problem, as I see it, is delay for which, sometimes, there is no explanation.

A Fringe show celebrating the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has welcomed a warm letter of support from the office of the prime minister. Lily and Robert, great-grandchildren of Edinburgh-born ECHR artisan David Maxwell Fyfe, were delighted to receive the letter a

Harper Macleod's Bobby Murray warns consumers of the serious implications of a significant Scottish court ruling on health insurance. On 25 June, Lord Sandison issued a detailed and very interesting decision in a long-running case. 

Shakespeare Martineau has welcomed its first-ever summer interns in Scotland. Charlie Phillips and Iona Robertson have each spent two weeks at the firm’s Edinburgh office, gaining valuable insight into life at a law firm.

A teenager obsessed with mass murder who spoke of carrying out a Columbine-style school shooting in Edinburgh has been sentenced to six years in prison. Felix Winter, now 18, was described in court as having “idolised” the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which

A team of law students at the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice) have produced a research report in partnership with the Legal Services Agency (LSA).

The Public Defence Solicitors’ Office (PDSO) welcomed James Calder for a six-week internship at its Falkirk office on 21 July. James has taken up the first intern post at PDSO Falkirk, following the success of a pilot internship at PDSO Dundee last year.

The Edinburgh branch of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), supported by Edinburgh Tax Network and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar entitled How to Manage the Tax Landscape for Landed Estates and Property Businesses in Light of Recent Tax Changes at the Mackenzie Building, Old As

A man convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl along with four other convictions has lost an appeal against his conviction on the first rape charge based on an argument that the jury should have received additional directions on the way he reacted to an accusation made against him by the complainer&rs

John Sturrock KC commends a new book on the great Neil MacCormick. “But have you ever cycled across The Meadows?” In those days, cycleways had not yet been marked out in Edinburgh’s central green space and it was still forbidden to cycle there. “Yes, but…” Too la

Michael Upton concludes his discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's lawyerly credentials. Yesterday we marked the 150th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson’s admission to the Faculty of Advocates with the first part of this discussion of the assertion once made by the Times Literary Supp

Hundreds of staff members at Brodies LLP benefited from a five per cent bonus after the firm enjoyed a 15th consecutive year of growth, with revenue rising by 11 per cent to £126.7 million. The firm's latest accounts, for the financial year ending 30 April 2025, also show that operating profit

As we have seen reported over the recent months, the Employment Rights Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, will arguably bring about the greatest changes to employment law in a generation. The latest announcement is the fact that the UK government plans to ban the use of non-disclosur

At least 13 people are thought to have taken their own lives as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while at least 59 more contemplated suicide, according to the first report from the public inquiry into what has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history

Gilson Gray is celebrating a landmark win on behalf of its client, Rene Hiddink, brother of former Real Madrid and Netherlands manager Guus Hiddink, in a case that marks a first for world football. Following the unlawful termination of his three-year contract just eight months into his role as techn