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5-8 April 2017 Strathclyde Law School, home to the UK’s leading Postgraduate programme in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, has been invited to host the 16th annual INADR International Law Student Mediation Tournament. The Tournament will bring law students from all over the world to Glasgow, und

A former Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland has said the law must evolve in lockstep with advances in technology to thwart terrorists, pointing to lacunae in the legislation governing unmanned aerial vehicles. Delivering the Scottish Council of Law Reporting's Macfadyen Lecture 2017, entitle

Pictured (L-R): Journalist and broadcaster Alastair Stewart (awards host), Clare Munro (Brodies), Bill Drummond, Stephen Goldie (Brodies), Nick Scott (Brodies), Lorna Jack (chief executive of the Law Society of Scotland) and Mark Stewart (Brodies).

A man accused of historical child sex offences has had proceedings against him deserted after he successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to allow more time for prosecutors to bring the case to trial following inexplicable delays by the Crown in securing the evidence of a key witness. The High

James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC and Assistant chief constable Mark Williams today launched a new Joint Protocol on Domestic Abuse.

The Law Society of Scotland has published a guide to handling bullying and harassment in the workplace. The guide describes bullying “as the process whereby an employee is intimidated, mistreated or humiliated. It can be characterised by offensive, malicious or insulting behaviour which is designe

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Eric Robertson Advocate Eric Robertson reflects on vital insights shared at the recent 2017 human trafficking seminar held in the Faculty of Advocates.

Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC ICAS has announced that Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC has been appointed chair of its Discipline Board.

At the High Court in Edinburgh today, 23 March 2017, Lord Uist sentenced Eric Rafferty to 15 years’ imprisonment after the accused was found guilty of repeated rape and sexual abuse of young girls. On sentencing, Lord Uist made the statement below in court. Eric Francis Rafferty, you were convicte

A lecturer who was removed from his position as a board member of Glasgow Clyde College and consequently disqualified for life from being a member of other boards has failed in a legal challenge to the legislative order removing almost the entire board from office for “mismanagement”. A judge in

Academically gifted students from less advantaged backgrounds in Scotland are set to benefit from a game-changing quarter of a million pound investment through the Lawscot Foundation. The Law Society of Scotland has donated the proceeds of the May 2016 sale of Legal Post to the foundation; a charity

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd The Lord Chief Justice has excoriated the Lord Chancellor over her failure to understand reforms that are being introduced to spare children from live cross-examination, The Times reports.

Scott Whyte Most will not have heard of it until recently, but the ruling on the discount rate for injured people has been long-awaited amongst those in the legal sector, writes Scott Whyte.