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Scotland needs more pathologists in order to get the bodies of murder victims back to their families sooner, a criminal defence lawyer has said. A new protocol was announced last week by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to speed up the release of the bodies of murder victims that have

The Law Society of Scotland is asking the legal profession and interested stakeholders for their views on the law providing rights for cohabitants. The consultation aims to stimulate discussion within the legal profession and among other stakeholders and is seeking views in relation to reforming coh

Bruce Wood reflects on the slow pace of change in updating the moveable transactions regime. In The Scotsman on 28 August 2011 I lauded the Scottish Law Commission's discussion paper on the reform of the law on moveable transactions. (More on what those are in a minute.) I pointed out that this

The number of police officers has fallen to its lowest level since the start of 2009, new figures published by Scotland's chief statistician show. The figures reveal that there were 17,147 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 30 September 2018.

In his recent opinion piece, Willie Mcintyre is correct to highlight the poor reporting that we have seen around the consultation on the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) Bill. This bill is not a “smacking bill” and is unlikely to lead to parents going to jail for smacking their c

From August to October 2018, there was a marked increase of 10.9 per cent in the number of properties coming to market compared to the same period last year in the east of Scotland, according to the latest ESPC house price report. In Edinburgh specifically, there was a 5.6 per cent increase compared

Dentons has advised the shareholders of Hugh King & Co Holdings Ltd., a producer of dried mortar and render products and a supplier of sports sand, on the sale of the company to Scottish quarry firm Tillicoultry Quarries Ltd. The deal will see Tillicoultry Quarries purchase 100 per cent of the s

An Irish law firm has become the first to appoint a full-time pro bono associate. New appointee Eithne Lynch said she hopes other firms follow in the footsteps of A&L Goodbody by creating similar roles.

Lawyers and law students are being invited to a special event to formally launch a new Faculty of Advocates scholarship and to mark the first anniversary of the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers' Association (SEMLA). The evening will feature a keynote speech by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf. The d

A record £80,000 has been raised to help those living with a spinal cord injury thanks to the Digby Brown annual Winter Dinner Dance.

Two Supreme Court judgments will be analysed with a feminist eye in a Faculty of Advocates-hosted event. The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project looks at court decisions and whether the outcome might have been different if the judge had adopted a feminist perspective.

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A prominent Bahraini royal is facing a £35 million lawsuit for allegedly reneging on an agreement to spend time with Bollywood stars. Sheikh Hamad Isa Ali al-Khalifa is said to have drawn up a list of 26 A-listers he wanted to meet, and agreed to pay £1.15 million for each 15-minute enco

Graham Ogilvy looks at the life of the radical William Davidson. The release last week of Mike Leigh's new film Peterloo telling the story of the notorious 1819 massacre of supporters of parliamentary reform in Manchester brings to mind the intriguing story of William Davidson, a Jamaican-born black

A Chinese national whose claim that he was a victim of human trafficking was rejected has had a legal challenge against that decision dismissed. Dunshou He claimed that he became a victim of modern slavery after fleeing his home country and arriving in the UK via Ireland, but the Secretary