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Kathleen Hallisey Survivors of child sex abuse are campaigning for the UK government to introduce mandatory reporting laws to help tackle abuse within Jehovah's Witnesses communities.

Anthony Maton The European Commission has come under pressure from lawyers to release further details of a €1.8 billion fine paid by eight major banks over the Euribor rate-rigging scandal two years ago.

Laura Irvine Laura Irvine writes on the importance of complying with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Leigh Kirkpatrick, a solicitor at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, has won this year’s “Law Society of Scotland In-House Lawyers’ Group Rising Star Award”. The award was presented at the Law Society’s Law in Scotland Conferencereception, along with a presentation to the Scottish La

From left: Joanne Romanis, Brian Inkster and Robert Wild (photo taken by Rob McDougall)

Sir Jeffrey Jowell Proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 will pose problems for the UK's constitutional settlement according to a legal expert.

The European Court of Human Rights has today launched a multilingual Twitter accountECHRPublication reserved for news on case-law publications, translations and the HUDOC case-law database. Registrar Erik Fribergh said: “Over recent years the Court has stepped up its efforts to improve the underst

Michael Gove The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove is to enact radical changes in the penal system by transferring more power from Whitehall to prisons themselves.

A father who left his baby daughter brain-damaged after shaking her and throwing her down on to a couch in a “deliberate and violent assault” has had his seven-and-a-half year prison sentence reduced following an appeal. The Criminal Appeal Court quashed the sentence and imposed a custodial term

Proposed changes in the law of succession could reduce the number of cases where children of the deceased inherit a share of the estate, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. In its response to a Scottish government consultation paper, which followed a report by the Scottish Law Commission, the Fa

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson Traffickers face life in prison under a new law approved by the Scottish Parliament yesterday.

Lorna Jack, chief executive of the Law Society of Scotland The Law Society of Scotland has issued a statement after it emerged a staff member linked to scrutiny of Michelle Thomson MP's property dealings was a leading pro-independence activist.

The Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) has endorsed the Scottish government’s planned removal of the three year limitation period in respect of actions for damages for personal injuries for in-care survivors of historical child abuse but believes that it should not be limited to “in-care survi

Angela Haig, leader of Henderson Loggie’s professional practices sector group The latest annual legal practices benchmarking review conducted by Scottish accountants Henderson Loggie, in conjunction with the other seven members of the MHA association of independent accountancy firms around the UK,

Data protection legislation of a member state may be applied to a foreign company which exercises in that state, through stable arrangements, a real and effective activity the European Court of Justice has ruled. The Data Protection Directive provides that each member state is to designate one or mo