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Laws that are premised on the traditional notions of obscenity and indecency will not help to keep children safe online, an academic has warned. Existing laws that are reliant on a standard of ‘morality’ and obscenity have proven to be ineffective for regulating adult pornography on the

Harper Macleod is extending its partnership with Scottish ClubSport, the umbrella organisation for local sports councils and ClubSport networks across Scotland. The firm will be the headline partner for Scottish ClubSport’s Annual Conference in September, the title for which is “Capacity

An appeal by a Scottish landfill operator against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal that material used in the construction of landfill cell walls should be taxed at the standard rate has been partially successful. Barr Environmental Ltd raised the action in the FtT challenging Revenue Scotland&r

Drummond Miller and Peacock Johnston have merged. The 11-strong Peacock Johnston team – six lawyers and five other staff – will join the Glasgow office of Drummond Miller, which has 14 partners and 100 other employees across five offices, including headquarters in Union Street, Edinburgh

The UK Information Commissioner has called on the criminal justice sector to immediately stop collecting excessive amounts of personal information from complainants in rape and serious sexual assault cases. The call is published in a Commissioner’s Opinion which informs the sector how to use p

SLN editor Kapil Summan spoke to Scottish photographer and director David Eustace about his portrait series on Scotland's judges—Thirty Two York Place—the site in Edinburgh of eighteenth century portrait artist Sir Henry Raeburn’s studio. David Eustace has had a distinguished caree

Nine groups with concerns about plans to allow individuals to change their sex in law by statutory declaration have written to MSPs warning that the Gender Recognition Reform Bill "risks becoming another piece of bad law". In a letter to Joe FitzPatrick MSP, convener of the Equalities, Human Ri

Proposals to make misogyny a hate crime are backed by almost two-thirds of Scots, according to a poll by The Times. The Scottish government is considering new laws after the targeting of women was left out of the Hate Crime Act, which is yet to come into force despite being passed last year.

A police force belatedly discovered it had been burgled after finding some of its belongings during an unrelated search. Officers searching an address in Auckland, New Zealand unexpectedly came across "a number of documents" which were meant to have been destroyed, as well as expired cannisters of p

Registers of Scotland will be closing the application record on Friday for the Queen’s Jubilee.During the extended bank holiday period, RoS opening hours will be:

Judges from Germany have visited Peru to examine the level of environmental damage allegedly caused by Europe’s greatest emitter in what could be a landmark climate case. The delegation visited a glacial lake in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range to find out if Germany’s large

Decades of racist legislation led to the Windrush scandal in which dozens of British citizens from Caribbean countries were wrongly deported, according to a report produced for the Home Office and leaked by a UK newspaper. The 52-page document, written by an historian who has not been named, conclud

Employment tribunals involving menopause have increased by 44 per cent year on year, according to analysis of court records by the Menopause Experts Group. There were 23 employment tribunals referencing menopause in 2021, compared to 16 in the previous year. "Menopause" was mentioned 207 times in tr

The fifth volume of the Strathclyde Law Review has been published and can be accessed online. Articles in the latest edition cover a range of topics, including:

A proliferation of Employment Tribunal claims arising from “no jab, no job” dismissals is of interest to employment lawyers north and south of the border. In 2021, the UK government issued regulations requiring staff working in Care Quality Commission-regulated facilities to be vaccinate