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Lawyers have paid tribute to the "candour and courage" of people who gave evidence of abuse they suffered in residential childcare, The Herald reports. The comments came as the current phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry drew to a close.

International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has assisted a children's charity to develop proposals for the statutory regulation of social media companies. The NSPCC is campaigning in favour of a new "social media regulator" which could issue fines of up to £20 million to social media compan

A tattooist known as "Dr Evil" admitted causing grievous bodily harm by performing unlawful body modification procedures on clients. Brendan McCarthy, 50, pleaded guilty to three charges of GBH in respect of a tongue-splitting procedure as well as removing an ear and slicing off a nipple.

A businessman who gave £182,000 to a woman he met on dating app Tinder has won a court battle to get the money back. Marcel Kooter, 57, claimed he sent the money to Manuel Radeva, 37, for investment purposes – not as a gift.

A solicitor has had his practising certificate restricted and has been fined and censured for professional misconduct, which included issuing "contrived" fee notes. Thomas Duff, of Robert F Duff & Co Ltd in Largs, was not, however, struck off by the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal.

A now-deceased lawyer who alleged a breach of his right to freedom of expression suffered a violation of his Article 10 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Joaquim Antonio Pais Pires de Lima was a Portuguese national who was born in 1938 and died in 2017. He lived in Cascai

Karyn McCluskey calls for an evidence-led approach towards cutting crime as an alternative to simply building more prisons. I’ve been engaging with lots of great modern studies students and teachers in Scotland. A few students tweeted about their essays on what we should do about the high

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar entitled “HMRC Representations, Guidance & Legitimate Expectations” on Thursday 28th February 2019 at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. The speaker will be Derek Francis,

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of David Sellar, former Lord Lyon King of Arms who passed away on 26 January at the age of 78. "David Sellar was the gently urbane academic and author who as Lord Lyon became Scotland’s greatest officer of state. Clad in tabard of office, he cut a maj

Female barristers are leaving the profession because of a failure to prevent bullying by judges, lawyers have claimed. The head of the criminal bar has highlighted incidents of judges belittling women advocates and attributes this to the judges being men, The Times reports.

Thursday, 28 February 2019 The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is delighted to welcome a team from the UK Supreme Court to speak to members on what life is like working as a judicial assistant to the Justices of the UKSC.

A judicial watchdog in England and Wales has given "formal advice" to a High Court judge who fell asleep during a hearing. Mrs Justice Judith Parker was investigated by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) following "a complaint by parties in a case that she had fallen asleep during a h

A courthouse was evacuated after a lawyer showed up with an "abundance" of bed bugs falling out of his suit. The alarm was raised after someone in the courthouse said she could see "something crawling on his neck".

Criminal offences relating to unlawful eviction – that have existed for half a century – are not being upheld, according to new findings. Writing for the SCOLAG Journal, Shaun McPhee presents the preliminary findings of research on enforcement in the Scottish private rented sector, in pa

The decision by a sheriff to grant an absolute discharge in the case of Christopher Daniel, the 18-year-old dental student who sexually abused a six-year-old girl, made headlines in Britain and beyond. Initial stories highlighted that the victim, who was eight at the time, was questioned in a record