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Gordon Jackson QC Gordon Jackson QC notes that all those who uphold the rule of law should be accorded equal respect.

BAILII have now completed their work of loading a large number of historic Scottish case reports provided to them by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) on to the BAILII database for open access. The database includes: Decisions of the Court of Session:

Kenny MacAskill Claims of a turf war between Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Association (SPA) have been described as “depressing” by a former justice secretary.

A Scot who found himself at the centre of an uproar in Kyrgyzstan after he said the country's national dish looked like a horse's penis has claimed he was told the incident could spark a war between the UK and the Central Asian state. Michael McFeat was employed as a welder at the Kumtor gold mine,

Catherine McKinnell Labour's Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell has quit the shadow cabinet over concerns about the direction of Labour under leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Lord Carloway The Right Honourable Lord Carloway, who was installed as the new Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session today, has brought into question the survival of the “jewel in the crown” of Scots law – the 140 day rule – describing it as a “narrow window”.

A group of people camping on the grounds of Holyrood who refuse to move until Scotland becomes independent said they will fight a legal bid to get rid of them and argued they have a right at common law to remain on the land. The campaigners said they have lodged papers at the Court of Session after

Scotland’s new Sheriff Appeal Court will now hear civil appeals from sheriff courts, after its jurisdiction in civil cases came into effect this week. The new court, which is presided over by appeal sheriffs, is meant to improve efficiency by: removing this business from the Court of Session; ensu

Neil Richardson Police Scotland have refused to comply with a Holyrood committee's request to speak to four officers over the its illegal spying activity of journalistic sources on the basis of “critical legal issues”.

Lord Dervaird The Hon Lord Dervaird (Professor John Murray QC, honorary vice president of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, passed away on 23 December 2015.

Zibya Bashir Zibya Bashir discusses the provisions (or lack thereof) dealing with the enforcement of heritable securities where the heritable proprietor is a dissolved limited company.

Frances McMenamin QC Scottish Legal Training’s Criminal Law Masterclass will take place on Saturday 23 January.

MSPs have agreed in principle to legislation that would prevent elections at Westminster and Holyrood from clashing in 2020. The next UK general election will take place on 7 May 2020 – the same day as the elections at the Scottish Parliament. However, MSPs have agreed to move the Scottish electio

Thirty-six lawyers in Scotland made 58 calls to a helpline for practitioners last year, with 30 per cent of calls relating to stress. People also called about depression (17 per cent), disciplinary issues (14 per cent), bullying (11 per cent) and other issues (28 per cent) – including career devel

A Scots lawyer who was found to have acted in a “reckless and cavalier manner” by accepting an offer to settle a “slopping out” claim on behalf of a prisoner client for whom he was no longer instructed to act has failed in a challenge to a tribunal’s finding that he was guilty of “profes