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School pupils have won through to the semi-finals of the Law Society of Scotland’s national debating tournament after arguing the cases for and against the removal of immigration controls. Of the 128 teams that entered the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, 16 teams from schools across Sco

The Law School at the University of Aberdeen has announced a two-day conference in honour of Professor David Carey Miller from 6 to 7 March 2015. Professor Miller has researched and taught at the University of Aberdeen for over forty years, and his work has an international reputation for excellence

Figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) show reports of fake law firms have gone up by 101 per cent. The SRA, which is the body regulating solicitors in England and Wales, said there were 701 reports of fake law firms in 2014, up from 349 in 2012.

David Menzies (pictured) responds to allegations that the insolvency profession in Scotland preys on the vulnerable. I read with interest the views expressed by Mike Dailly of Govan Law Centre in his blog published inScottish Legal News on 24 February 2015. The blog raises valid concerns about debt,

Solicitor Carol Fox, of Fox and Partners (pictured), has written about becoming a single mother through IVF treatment in the 1990s in her new book Memoirs of a Feminist Mother. Carol, 55, who recently won millions in equal pay for female workers from North and South Lanarkshire councils, relates how

Fiona Morton (left) and Paul Kerr

A bill to create a duty to provide crisis grants for people on low incomes and to support independent living has been passed by the Scottish parliament. The passing of the Welfare Funds (Scotland) Bill will make the Scottish Welfare Fund a permanent, statutory scheme.

Gemma Ogilvie

Two Celtic supporters who were convicted of “offensive behaviour at football” after singing a pro-IRA and INLA song have been granted leave to appeal over whether their human rights had been breached. The Criminal Appeal Court will be asked to consider whether the applicants’ rights under Arti

The story entitled “Local council to ask for historic building transferred in error to be returned” in yesterday’s SLN contained an inaccuracy. We stated: “Along with Laigh Hall it was part-gifted to the Faculty of Advocates.”

An arrangement where a woman carried her son’s baby as a surrogate mother has been described as “entirely lawful” by a judge. The mother carried the donor egg which had been fertilised with her son’s sperm when another female relative who was meant to carry the IVF baby was forced to withdra

Maria Rud, a Russian artist based in Edinburgh, along with sculptor and partner Ewan Allinson, have won a legal case against the Swiss gallery, Galerie Zabbeni. In 2012, Ms Rud and Mr Allinson were invited by gallery owner Andrea Zabbeni, to exhibit over 30 original works of art and sculpture at the

Seventeen members of the Faculty of Advocates have been appointed to a new panel of counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The commission has drawn up two groups, for Scotland and for England and Wales. In total, there are 81 advocates, barristers and solicitor advocates who wi

From left: Bryan Burnett, Scottish television and radio presenter, Fraser Oliver, Digby Brown chief executive receiving the award, Jamie Cumming, commercial director, Hillington Park

The Home Office has been accused of holding “highly offensive” and “outdated” views of sexuality after it rejected the asylum claim of a Nigerian lesbian, who claims to be avoiding sexual persecution, on the basis she cannot be gay as she has children and was previously in heterosexual relat