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We are delighted to invite you to attend our 11th Annual Conference which will take place on Friday 23rd November at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. As you know, the Compass Conference is one of the highlights of our year and it is an event we are very proud of. It is an event that seeks to bring lea

Via TLT's Stephen McGowan: I’m at the @CLTScotland paralegal graduation ceremony at @UniStrathclyde Barony Hall. Congrats to all you lovely people but especially the licensing law students!

Poland has pushed ahead with the appointment of 27 judges to its Supreme Court bench in spite of pressure from the international legal community and the EU, which believes its judicial reforms are illegal. A spokesperson for President Andrzej Duda said the government was "im

Health authorities in Norway have been told to respect medical professionals' right to conscientious objection after the country's Supreme Court found in favour of a doctor who refused to administer a procedure that could have resulted in an abortion. In a judgment published yesterday, the court fou

A mafia hitman who testified against his former colleagues is suing a TV network over a drama which revealed his past to his teenage daughter. Pasquale di Filippo spent ten years in jail after admitting to four murders, but helped convict other mafia bosses and was granted a new identity on his rele

A woman found guilty of attempted murder who claimed that the trial judge misdirected the jury by failing to give directions on provocation has had her appeal against conviction rejected. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that, where the accused's defence was that she

After a short illness, Murray Alexander Sinclair died on 27 September 2018 at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Mr Sinclair had been director of the Scottish Government Legal Directorate since 2007.

A majority of Scots law students are unaware that their LLB qualifies them to sit the bar exams in both New York and California, according to a poll by the Scottish Bar Association of New York (ScotBarNY). The survey of 370 students at Scottish universities offering qualifying law degrees also found

A man who spat on a sheriff who refused him bail is now facing imprisonment. Gordon Rose, 33, from Govan, carried out the assault when the court convened outside his cell in August.

Rangers Football Club has succeeded in a court battle against a street trader who had tried to stop it from trademarking the "RFC" logo. The club applied for the registration of the letters as an official trademark to sell its merchandise and prevent others from benefiting from its name.

A private members' bill to decriminalise abortion in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will introduced in the House of Commons later this month. The bill will be introduced by Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, and is co-sponsored by a coalition of MPs from five different parties.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been asked for an advisory opinion clarifying the obligations of authorities in France, where surrogacy is illegal, to transcribe the foreign birth certificate of a child born through surrogacy. France's Court of Cassation, the highest co

Gildeas has secured a favourable damages award for a client who was accused of fraud following a road traffic collision. The collision took place near Chapelhall in Lanarkshire in January 2015 when the firm's client was struck by another vehicle.

Via Lyon Court: "Unicorn attended the Deacon Convener's Dinner last night in the historic Trades Hall of Glasgow - what a feast of heraldry the building is".

The second of this year’s three Hamlyn Lectures will be hosted by the Faculty of Advocates, and delivered by Robin Allen QC, chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales. Mr Allen addresses "Why does equality seem so difficult? Three problems in compari