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The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) should extend its victim strategy to complainers of sexual crimes that are prosecuted in the sheriff solemn courts, a review has found.

A short-term prisoner who was refused early release under Home Detention Curfew (HDC) under the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 has had his petition against the decision rejected. John Paton brought judicial review proceedings against the Scottish Government aft

Defence solicitor Gordon Ritchie charts the decline of Scotland's justice system and respect for the rights of the accused. As I approach the 30th anniversary of my admission as a solicitor, and contemplate a retirement into the great unknown of pipe and slippers, I considered the changes in law and

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has written to the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC  about the findings of the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) describing the brutal death of Allan Marshall, an inmate of HMP Edinburgh in 2015. Mr McArthur’s letter highlights con

A party to an arbitration which was seeking to challenge an arbitrator’s award on the basis of an alleged “legal error” has had an application for leave to appeal against the decision refused. A judge in the Court of Session refused the application after ruling that the t

Solicitor Aamer Anwar, who called on protestors at an anti-racism march to “demoralise” campaigners from an Israeli lobby group with Palestinian flags, will not be punished, The Times reports. Mr Anwar will face no disciplinary proceedings for accusing the Confederation of Friends of Isr

A University of Dundee academic has been awarded a European Commission professorship to further his research into how ecological and economic justice can be delivered. Professor Raphael Heffron received the Jean Monnet chair for 2019-2022 on the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy, one of o

Our sister publication Irish Legal News has spoken to lawyer John Finucane, a graduate of Dundee Law School who recently became Lord Mayor of Belfast. Mr Finucane is the son of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, who was shot and killed in his home on 12 February 1989 by loyalist para

A lawyer who came to Britain as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo and made her home in Scotland has been honoured by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). A portrait of Debora Kayembe, who came to the capital in 2011, has been hung in the RSE building on George Street, the Edinbur

Anderson Strathern has hired Coral Bain as its first ever risk and compliance director. Ms Bain, a former head of professional practice at the Law Society of Scotland, brings expertise in governance, professional regulation, GDPR and strategic compliance.

Two solicitors will be awarded honorary membership of the Law Society of Scotland in its platinum year, at its special general meeting on 6 September 2019. Alistair Cockburn and Sheriff Brian Kearney have both contributed significantly to the legal profession and civic society in Scotland.

Scotland’s first black professor, a Windrush generation Jamaican who grew up in the racist Britain of the fifties and sixties, has told an audience of lawyers and other professionals in Edinburgh that they must have a "sense of belonging" in order to succeed. Sir Geoff Palmer, an eminent brewi

Thorntons is celebrating the appointment of eight newly-qualified solicitors following a two-year traineeship. There will be four new faces in the Dundee office as Katy Williams joins the intellectual property team, Vicki Alexander joins commercial property, Katie Fulton joins the family law team an

Scottish Conservative MSP Professor Adam Tomkins has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson must resign if he is unwilling to follow the law. A bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed on Friday.

Gordon Jackson QC writes about the Faculty of Advocates' involvement in an exciting series of crime events this month at the Bloody Scotland festival. Two of my fresh-faced colleagues at the bar are about to notch up a noteworthy first, the kind of landmark denied to so many of us who are much