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Govan Law Centre’s (GLC) Women’s Rights Project has secured interim orders at the Court of Session for interdict and suspension to prevent a client’s eviction and homelessness.

The Lawscot Foundation has strengthened its capacity to help aspiring Scottish solicitors from disadvantaged backgrounds with the recruitment of five new members to its board of trustees. The new trustees will play a critical role in guiding the social mobility charity’s decisions and long-ter

The Conveyancing Conference forms part of the Scots Law Conference series which returns to Murrayfield Stadium on 30th and 31st October after a gap of 4 years.  For details of each of the individual conferences forming part of the Series, click here. Ann Stewart of Shepherd & Wedderburn wil

A judge who allegedly sent hundreds of text messages mocking lawyers, jurors and witnesses while overseeing a child murder trial is to be removed from the bench. Judge Traci Soderstrom, in Oklahoma, speculated about the size of prosecutors' penises and fawned over a police officer in messages exchan

KPMG has been slapped with a record £21 million fine by the UK's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) over its mishandling of the audits for Carillion, the government contractor that collapsed in 2018. The failure of Carillion, which provided construction and facilities management services within

Morton Fraser has been successfully reappointed by the City of Edinburgh Council to provide legal services to lot 1 (commercial), lot 2 (property and planning) and lot 3 (litigation), with an estimated framework-wide legal spend of around £16.7m. The firm has been offering legal services to th

The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has welcomed the Court of Appeal’s ruling on a long-running court battle over a subject access request complaint. The court upheld an earlier High Court decision by Mr Justice Mostyn to dismiss a claim by Mr Ben Delo that the ICO had unlawfully failed to d

The Law Society of Scotland has underlined its commitment to the mental health of legal professionals with the launch of a new resource to guide workplaces. The Guide to creating a Wellbeing Strategy, which has been launched at this week's Law Society of Scotland Annual Conference, is intended for u

Syria stands accused of torturing tens of thousands of its citizens and maintaining a system of "abhorrent treatment", according to arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the first international case over the Syrian civil war. The case has been brought to the ICJ by both Canada and

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Barlinnie Special Unit – the experimental therapeutic facility – Howard League Scotland is hosting a screening of Silent Scream, the 1990 film based on the true story of one of Barlinnie Special Unit's residents, Larry Winters, at Edinburgh University.

A social media influencer has been fined after stopping traffic to perform yoga in the middle of the street. Footage published by police in India's Gujarat state shows cars stopping while the woman, named as Dina Parmar, strikes various poses in pouring rain.

Kee Solicitors has announced the appointment of Konrad Queen, who joins the firm's conveyancing and private client departments as a senior solicitor. He said: “I am incredibly pleased to be joining a firm that places the needs of their clients first and am looking forward to working alongside

A man who had been found guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl in a park when he was 17 has had his conviction quashed. Sean Hogg, 22, was originally given 270 hours of community service after being convicted of rape.

Scotland's police service is institutionally racist, its new chief constable has said. Jo Farrell endorsed the statement of her predecessor, Sir Iain Livingstone, that the single force had a racism problem. Before his retirement in May he said that Police Scotland “is institutionally racist an

TC Young has been appointed as housing association Cairn’s legal advisor for the next three years. Andrew Cowan, managing partner at TC Young, said: “We are excited to have been appointed to provide legal services to Cairn. We are dedicated to supporting our RSL clients in what are chall