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A baby will become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man succeeds in court. Lawyers for the parent told a judge that he had been born a female and had been biologically able to give birth but had legally become a man by the time the child was born.

The Tumbling Lassie operetta, which premiered in Edinburgh earlier this year, is set to be profiled at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.

An additional £131,000 has been provided to allow further renovations of the Sir Walter Scott Courthouse to take place. Built in 1803 as the Sheriff Court, it is where the famed author dispensed justice to the people of Selkirkshire.

Artificial intelligence is able to predict the outcomes of trials with a high success rate, a paper published yesterday argues. The Brief reports that computers have correctly predicted 88 per cent of prosecution decisions in studies using American legal data and 82 per cent of outcomes in asylum ca

Following Mental Health Awareness Week in May, six brave people from TLT in Scotland are taking on the Tough Mudder challenge in Dumfries on Saturday 16 June to raise money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH). The 2018 Scotland Mud Run is a gruelling challenge involving ten miles o

It will be interesting to see whether the recent English case of Parkhurst Road Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Another heard in the High Court at the end of April this year will have any impact in Scotland, writes Stephanie Mackenzie. The High Court upheld th

A Chinese asylum seeker who sought to challenge a decision by the Home Office to refuse to treat her further representations based on extracts from an expert’s report in another case as a “fresh claim” has had her application dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session considered th

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has lost an appeal to the UK Supreme Court in which it sought declarations that the current law on abortion in Northern Ireland is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights in cases of rape, incest, an

Gay and bisexual men in Scotland will receive automatic pardons for historical convictions for homosexuality. Under the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) Bill, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament, men will also have convictions of same-sex sexual activity that is now lega

Dentons has announced the appointment of Lisa Sewell as managing director for the UK & Middle East region, replacing Brandon Ransley, who retired earlier this year. Ms Sewell has over 20 years' experience in driving business performance and change in multinational organisations. She arrives foll

Fraser Sutherland, campaigns manager at Humanist Society Scotland, calls for dead letter blasphemy laws to be scrapped. Last week when talking to friends about the campaign work Humanist Society Scotland, they expressed surprise that Scotland still has a common law offence against blasphemy. To be f

The seventh annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network conference was hosted at the University of Dundee yesterday. The opening keynote address was given by Mike Dailly of Govan Law Centre and there were other contributions on the day about: the Scottish University Land Unit (a partnership with D

Alastair McKie looks at the details of major planning legislation wending its way through Holyrood. The Planning (Scotland) Bill was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 4th December 2017, and is currently working its way through the legislative process. The bill contains a wide range measures int

Pictured (L-R): Euan, Corrie and Jack Three of Team Scotland’s star swimmers returned to the Brodies Scottish Schools Swimming Championships yesterday to support the event and reflect on their own experiences as former competitors.

A successful night was had by all on Friday 25 May as over 150 people gathered in the Eglinton & Glencairn Gardens in the west end of Edinburgh for the fourth annual Cancer Research Racquet & Marie Champagne Garden Party.