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This week the EU Parliament adopted a new revised draft of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Market. The proposed EU legislation includes some significant changes to the copyright regime and a couple of surprise additions introduced at the last minute by the EU Parliament, explains Ron Mosco

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Congratulations to Emily Ross on winning the Shepherd & Wedderburn Prize for the best student in property law at Aberdeen University. Emily is pictured here being awarded the prize by Dr Susan Stokeld.

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The public image of lawyers is all too often a distorted one: fat cats, divorced from the realities of life and absorbed with self-interest. As a consequence, certain aspects of legal life – and life at the bar is perhaps the clearest example – are often thought of as the preserve o

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A campaign to have this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the world’s human rights defenders has received backing from the Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee. Peace Brigades International, a non-governmental organisation which supports human rights and p

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A restaurant owner has been fined around £190 for putting up a sarcastic window sign asking people not to let their dogs pee on an outdoor flower pot. Duc's Place, a Vietnamese restaurant in the US state of Connecticut, put up a sign reading: "Attn: dog owners. This is a pay-per-pee flower pot

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Nine new Queen’s Counsel have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The new appointees are Una Doherty, advocate; Bruce Erroch, advocate; Jane Farquharson, advocate; Ruth Innes, advocate; Vinit Khurana, advocate; Ronaldo Renucci, advoc

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Following much controversy surrounding the European Union’s proposed Copyright Directive, MEPs have voted again on the Directive, this time in a vote of support with 438 in favour, 226 against and with 39 abstentions, writes Euan Duncan. MEPs previously voted against the Directive in July of t

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Scotland’s newest solicitors with Alison Atack, president of the Law Society of Scotland, Lorna Jack, its chief executive and Lord Eassie, who spoke at the admissions ceremony at the Signet Library yesterday.

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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment and will serve a minimum of 17 years in jail for the murder of Ansar Shah 25 years ago. Jagtar Singh, 51, murdered Mr Shah in the car park outside a restaurant in Ayr in the early hours of 4 October 1993.

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