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Bullying and sexual harassment of women in the legal profession is greatly exaggerated, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon told the Lords Constitution Committee that a small minority of judges behaved badly towards female barristers and that there was no evidence of a wider prob

A man who decided to become a lawyer because of his family's experience of a land dispute when he was six years old has managed to win the property back 23 years later. Jordan Kinyera, 29, took up his father's case in the long-running dispute and, on Monday, the High Court in Uganda ruled in his fav

TLT has launched a podcast to help HR professionals stay up to date with and develop a better understanding of the biggest issues in UK employment law. The purpose of Employment Law Focus is to act as a filter on the hundreds of news stories and cases that happen every month. The presenters also del

MTM Defence Lawyers has appointed solicitor Sophie Russell to its Edinburgh office. Ms Russell will be working alongside solicitor-advocate Neil Hay to service MTM’s ever-growing private client caseload in the capital. MTM has seen a 50 per cent rise in the business, over the 2017/18 fina

Ken Lauder has joined Gilson Gray as a legal director in the litigation and dispute resolution team. Mr Lauder, a solicitor advocate, has more than 30 years’ experience and specialises in high value personal injury, medical negligence and other professional negligence cases.

The right to food should be enshrined in law in Scotland to protect people from rising food insecurity and the impacts of Brexit, according to a new report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The report, submitted to the Scottish government, also calls on public authorities to

Britain has assisted prosecutions in anti-terrorism courts in Pakistan that have handed down more than 350 death sentences in the last five years, The Telegraph reports. The Counter Terrorism Associated Prosecutorial Reforms Initiative (CAPRI) is a strand of the Pakistan Rule of Law Programme, funde

Joanna Cherry QC has become the most high-profile legal figure in the SNP to challenge plans to amend Scottish laws on the recording and recognition of sex and gender. The Scottish government consulted last year on proposed changes to the gender recognition process for transgender people in Scotland

Gilson Gray and TCH Law were the first firms to use the new fully digital process for simple procedure cases yesterday morning. The full roll-out of the Civil Online service from yesterday allows parties to submit simple procedure cases, pay court fees, submit supporting documents and respond to any

At least two women are expected to bring a legal challenge against new "digital consent forms" being used by police in England and Wales to access the personal data of rape complainants. The measures were introduced by police and prosecutors in response to disclosure failings which led to a number o

A disgruntled litigant whose complaints against a Scots lawyer and a law firm were rejected as time-barred has had an appeal against the decision dismissed. A judge in the Inner House of the Court of Session held that the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), in exercise of its “gatekee

Director Joe Berlinger's new Ted Bundy biopic arrives in cinemas and on Sky Cinema today amid a storm of controversy over its casting of former teen heart-throb Zac Efron as the notorious murderer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least 30 women in the 1970s. The film, described by Berlinger as a

The Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been cleared of sexual harassment allegations after an inquiry ruled there was no substance to the accusations – as it withheld its report. Mr Gogoi previously claimed the accusations were "false" and intended to "destabilise the judiciary".

People working in Scotland’s legal sector have been urged to take part in a new survey on mental health in the workplace. The research is the first of its kind to be carried out on a sector-wide basis in Scotland and is being run in partnership with See Me, the national programme to end mental

The next phase of funding for the CashBack for Communities scheme will take total investment in the programme to almost £110 million since it began in 2008. The scheme reinvests criminal assets into community projects which support young people into positive destinations, diverting some a