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The Supreme Court's judgment in Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Appellant) v Taylor Clark Leisure Plc (Respondent) (Scotland) will be handed down next Wednesday. The respondent, Taylor Clark Leisure Plc, was the representative member of the Taylor Clark VAT Group

Chris Dun considers the provisions of legislation varying the social housing regime in Scotland. The Housing (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill passed through Stage 3 of the Scottish Parliament on 31 May 2018 by 114 votes to nil. All that is needed now for the bill to become law is Royal Assent which is ex

The number of residential homes coming to market across east central Scotland between April and June 2018 increased by 3.2 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the latest house price report by ESPC. Average selling prices increased by 4.9 per cent across east central S

What a difference a few months makes. In April the press was full of the possibility that Paris Saint Germain (PSG) might be found guilty of breaching the financial fair play allegations and face the possibility that they might be excluded from participation in the Champions League. Fast forward a f

The sister of a man who was killed in the UK has had her application to the European Court of Human Rights alleging failings in the criminal justice system unanimously declared inadmissible. The case of Makarová v the United Kingdom concerned a complaint by the sister of a Czech man

Wednesday 10 October 20186:00pm - 7:30pmAdam Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh Law School, Old College.

Via @AndrewJMSteven: "Many congratulations to Dr Alisdair MacPherson of @AberdeenUniLaw on his graduation at @UoELawSchool today." Alisdair (centre) is pictured with Professor Kenneth Reid (left) and Dr Andrew Steven himself.

The judiciary is facing an "unsustainable" recruitment crisis, England and Wales' most senior judge has said. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, said that for the fourth year in a row, a number of judicial posts would go unfilled and that there was a real prospect of the High Court oper

Nine former Chilean soldiers have been jailed for their role in the murder of folk singer Victor Jara during the 1973 coup.Eight men have been found guilty of murder, while a ninth has been found guilty of accessory to murder.Hugo Sánchez Marmonti, Raúl Jofré Gonz

The Supreme Court has clarified the use of closed material procedure under section 6 of the Justice and Security Act 2013, an issue raised in Belhaj and another v Director of Public Prosecutions and another. The appellants allege that they were abducted and mistreated by agents of foreign gover

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee has today launched a call for evidence into the government’s new Vulnerable Witnesses Bill. The bill seeks to provide vulnerable witnesses and victims of crime with a better experience of the criminal justice system in Scotland. The main change

Poland's top judge turned up for work today in rejection of a new law forcing numerous members of the senior judiciary to retire early. Chief Justice Malgorzata Gersdorf, 65, had been told to step down from her post at midnight on Tuesday and make way for her replacement.

At the same time as Parliament prepares to ‘take back control’ from Brussels, the executive is in fact accruing to itself further control over the legislative process. In this post Professor Stephen Tierney addresses a number of trends – only some of which are a direct consequence