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The UK's highest court is taking on judicial assistants (JAs) and encourages applications from all of the UK's legal jurisdictions. JAs have a varied workload, from deciding if cases should be admitted to the court to discussing them with justices and writing press summaries.

Alan Kelly MacRoberts took home the top prize last night at the Scottish Business Insider’s SME awards ceremony. The awards are given to companies in Insider's SME300 listing, with an additional honour for the number one firm from Insider's Spring 100 rankings.

Kellyanne Conway The senior White House official and qualified lawyer who coined the term "alternative facts" is facing a misconduct complaint filed at the D.C. Bar by a group of American law professors.

Lord Lang of Monkton As it publishes its report on the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill today, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has said that while its usual concerns about the fast-tracking of legislation are alleviated by the brevity and simplicity of the bill, this should

Judgment in a child adoption case, EV (A Child) and In the matter of EV (A Child) (No 2) (Scotland), will be handed down on Wednesday 1 March at 9.45am in Courtroom 1. The Appellants are EV’s parents. They both have learning disabilities. In 2010 the father was charged with criminal sexual conduct

Richard Susskind In this year's Annual Review, assistant editor Kapil Summan speaks to legal and business technologists Richard and Daniel Susskind about the ideas in their new book, The Future of the Professions.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has given SLN the following response to yesterday's report from the Law Society of Scotland calling for an "urgent overhaul" of the current legal aid system. Today’s Times article on the Law Society of Scotland’s report on the financial health of firms doing

The family of a Turkish businessman who was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK have successfully challenged a decision by the Home Secretary to refuse their applications to stay in the country. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the Secretary of State for the Home Department was wr

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An appeal against a provision of immigration entry rules requiring non-EEA applicants to have a specified minimum income by an applicant who failed to meet this requirement has been unanimously allowed by Justices in the Supreme Court on the basis of extreme interference with family life while four

Glen Gilson Gilson Gray has doubled the capacity of its centrally located Edinburgh office after rapid growth in its first three years.

Just Employment Law has recently made two new additions to its growing Glasgow team – Amanda Deeley and Angela Strzyzewska. Ms Deeley (pictured right) is a respected employment lawyer having qualified in 2006. She brings to Just Employment Law a wealth of experience in employment law and HR – fi

Final year law students Ruby Davies, Christiane Schleich, Christie Allan and Blythe Petrie have been selected to represent the University of Dundee in this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. Each year, teams from all over Europe compete in national rounds. The winning team fr

Linda Klein Donald Trump’s first draft budget includes a proposal to scrap the Legal Services Corporation, a body which provides legal aid funding to around 2 million poor Americans each year.