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The trial of a company blamed for the death of a six-year-old boy, which has still not commenced five years after his death, will be delayed even ...

Professor Martin Hogg The Edinburgh Law Review has been awarded the "BIALL Legal Journals Award 2016" for the quality of its content and advancement of scholarship in ...

An employee at the Geneva offices of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, has been arrested. Last year a whistleblower ...

The Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) is hosting a seminar and drinks reception on 22 June to celebrate its first anniversary. The SWRC offers free legal advice, ...

In another blow to access to justice in Scotland, Scottish Legal News has learned that the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has withdrawn payment of travel and ...

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the appeal of an unfairly dismissed fingerprint officer involved in the McKie scandal, finding that the original Employment Tribunal’s (ET) interpretation ...

The man found guilty of the “limbs in the loch” murder has had a claim for damages refused after his confidential correspondence was opened by prison officers. ...

Calum MacNeill QC Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC represented fingerprint officer Fiona McBride in the Supreme Court in a successful bid to restore the decision of an ...

Ahead of next week's Brexit referendum, Scottish lawyers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Britain remaining in the EU. Of the 528 respondents in a poll conducted ...

Judith Robertson The has submitted a report to the United Nations (UN) setting out ways in which people in Scotland’s economic, social and cultural rights are not ...

Michael Matheson Communities will “see real benefits” in their local areas from an increase in community sentences the Scottish government claimed after announcing £4 million extra funding ...