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Lord Neuberger President of the Supreme Court Lord Neuberger has lauded the “accelerating endeavours to achieve greater diversity in the senior judiciary”, which, he said, is a result of greater diversity in the lower courts.

A worker who was seeking damages from his ex-employers after being injured in an accident at work is now suing his former solicitors for loss caused to him over their failure to raise an action in time. Christopher Brits raised an action against Kilcoyne and Co after they missed the three-year time

Ruth Davidson A member's bill on whole-life sentences will be brought before MSPs following an exchange at Holyrood this week.

David Ridley David Ridley looks at what the Scotland Act means for the oil and gas sector.

Lord Gill Lord Gill, former Lord President of the Court of Session, heard his final appeal as a member of the UK Supreme Court’s supplementary panel this week.

Andy Wightman A £750,000 defamation claim against Green MSP Andy Wightman has been condemned by freedom of speech campaigners.

Lord Carloway The Times has today picked up SLN’s Annual Review interview with the Lord President, Lord Carloway: Scots legal system is centuries out of date, its highest judge complains.

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