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Academics have called on the Scottish government to uphold sex-based protections in the Equality Act 2010 and to facilitate open debate on sex and gender identity issues in a paper that claims democratic policy-making has become vulnerable to ideologically-driven lobbying, namely from transgender ri

More than 30 organisations working with migrants and refugees have written to the new Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to raise a number of pressing issues "which require action if the immigration and asylum system is to regain the trust of the public". The letter, whose signatories include representati

Professor R. Daniel Kelemen, professor of political science and law and Jean Monnet chair in European Union politics at Rutgers University, writes on the change of leadership in the UK and the EU. The incoming President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the new Prime Minister of th

Human rights NGO Reprieve has intervened in a UK Supreme Court case arguing that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria. Maha Elgizouli V Secretary of State for the Home Departm

Dominic Grieve QC, the former Attorney General for England and Wales, has narrowly beaten Joanna Cherry QC in the SLN poll that asked readers which lawyer and parliamentarian had conducted themselves most admirably from a legal perspective during the current Brexit debacle. Labour’s Sir K

RBS Legal has been going the extra mile to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds take their first steps into a legal career.

A man has won the right to exhume his great-great-grandparents amid fears admirers of George Orwell will trample their grave. The Daily Mail reports that William Hanks has secured permission from a judge to safeguard his ancestors' remains, which are buried in the churchyard of All Saints Churc

Confused police officers in Glasgow burst into the wrong home and ordered a bewildered young man to drop his boxers and lift up his testicles in a botched drug raid. The Gracey family – Joe, 60; Jacqueline, 56; Anthony, 23; Andrew, 32; and Ellie, 11 – were woken by the early morning raid

A homeowner who was unable to maintain his monthly mortgage payments has successfully challenged his lender’s bid to repossess the property after appealing against a sheriff’s decision that the bank had validly served a calling-up notice. The Sheriff Appeal Court ruled that a &

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that all courts and tribunals have an inherent jurisdiction to grant access to court documents in a judgment reaffirming the principle of open justice. Lady Hale, delivering the judgment, urged the bodies responsible for framing the court rules in each part of the UK t

Shepherd and Wedderburn has been appointed to all six lots of the new Scottish Government Legal Services Framework following a competitive tender process. The four-year framework will be open to Scottish government public sector organisations, and is effective from 1 August 2019.

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.

Stuart Clubb highlights the significance of a recent decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session regarding the insolvency of Scottish companies carrying out business in India. Against the backdrop of the insolvency of Scottish companies carrying on business in India, a recent decision of the

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been granted leave to intervene in the continuing legal challenge to the “serious human rights implications” of Serco's lock-change policy. The private accommodation provider began its mass eviction policy of up to 300 people in Glasgo

Addleshaw Goddard has reported record financial results for the year 2018-19. Global turnover at the international firm, which employs more than 200 staff in Scotland, was £275.4 million, a year-on-year rise of 14 per cent, while total profit exceeded £100m, up 16 per cent on the previou