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A former prisoner who claimed that the policy of hand-cuffing him when he was escorted from jail to hospital for medical appointments while he was serving his sentence breached his human rights has had a damages claim dismissed. Easdale Campbell, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1996, argued

Graham Ogilvy (pictured) eisits Bologna’s famed law school in troubling times.ry The waiter who plonked a carafe of cheap Sangiovese down on our table at the little restaurant off Bologna’s Via Malcontenti spoke flawless English.

The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has announced Dame Anne Begg DBE (pictured right) as a patron and the promotion of third-year law student Sophie Mills to the position of student director. Miss Mills becomes the project’s seventh student director, succeeding Louise Sloan who is graduating and intend

A lecturer who was removed from his position as a board member of Glasgow Clyde College and consequently disqualified for life from being a member of other boards has failed in a legal challenge to the legislative order removing almost the entire board from office for “mismanagement”. A judge in

Graham Ogilvy

Willie McIntyre You just know that whoever drafted the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s new Code of Conduct for Criminal Practitioners couldn’t give you directions to the nearest court, far less have they ever appeared in one.

Karyn McCluskey Community Justice Scotland chief executive, Karyn McCluskey, gives her thoughts following the official launch of the new national body.

Douglas Mill I've been doing some very simple market research as I go about doing Faculty visits. An A4 page asking contributors to list the three things in practice which concern them most. I get a very high rate of return, so thank you good burghers of Banff, Stranraer, Paisley, Stirling et al.

Emma Guthrie Emma Guthrie spends most of her days as a solicitor in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s property and infrastructure team. However, for 18 days in March Emma was also in New York as a delegate at the 61st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), attending on behalf of the Wor

A motorcyclist who was seriously injured in an accident has had a £250,000 damages action against a Scottish local authority over the council’s alleged failure to repair a damaged strip of road dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the pursuer had failed to prove that the defender

Pictured (L-R): Professor Eric Bergsten, president of the Willem C. Vis moot with three members of the RGU team, Jennifer Lambart, Roy Janho and Annabelle Macpherson.

Malcolm Combe Malcolm Combe dispels myths surrounding Gaelic signage.

Alan Cowan The Faculty of Advocates has welcomed two new members from the solicitors’ branch of the profession – David Swanney and Alan Cowan.

James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has said corroboration could yet be scrapped.

Pictured: Arun Smith and Matthew McIlree winners of the Dewar Debate 2016/17 (centre) pictured with presiding officer Ken MacIntosh MSP, Andrew Stevenson, Glasgow Bar Association and Graham Matthews, president of the Law Society Scotland