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Jenny Dickson considers what a human rights based approach in the Scottish and UK Covid-19 Inquiries may look like. Both the Scottish and the UK governments have established public inquiries to examine the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The inquiries are underway, both considering a wide range o

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld a conviction under section 2(1) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 after an appeal by a man who was found guilty of uploading images of his former partner to a swingers’ website while they were still together. DF was sentenced to a

A new book by Stephen Bogle investigates James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair's groundbreaking approach to the law of contract. Contract before the Enlightenment, which will be released on 23 March, explores the development and reception of his ideas relating to the law of contract on the eve the Scottis

Applications for the WS Society's Summer Law Scholarship programme 2023 are now open. Designed for law students to enhance their professional and personal development, it is an opportunity for participants to spend two weeks as a WS Summer Scholar with the resources of the Signet Library at their fi

Millions of people were hit with an internet blackout on the weekend after authorities took action to prevent teacher candidates from accessing a leaked exam paper online. Internet services were disabled for 24 to 36 hours in 11 cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan, including capital Jaipur with

Eversheds Sutherland is taking almost 6,000sq ft of space on the ground floor of BAM Properties’ and Federated Hermes’s Capital Square development in Edinburgh. The firm is the sixth occupier to commit to the building following Anderson Strathern, Pinsent Mason and Brodies, audit and tax

Shoosmiths advised on more than 400 transactions with an aggregate deal value of £5 billion from January to December 2022. Corporate activity levels remained elevated throughout last year, with the firm's corporate team working across a record number of deals spanning private equity, mergers a

A woman who suffered image-based abuse at the hands of her former partner has been awarded nearly £100,000 in the first civil case of its kind to come before the English courts. The woman had discovered that her partner had secretly filmed her naked on a number of occasions and uploaded the im

Foreign nationals who are in the UK on sponsored visas find themselves racing against the clock following a redundancy, but employers also bear responsibility, writes Kelly Hardman. Global companies across a swathe of sectors, including finance and technology, continue to announce job cuts and many

Rob Marrs, head of education at the Law Society of Scotland, details the support of the Scottish legal community for Ukrainian lawyers. I’ll confess that my knowledge of Ukraine prior to last year’s invasion by Russia was limited. I knew the names of some of the cities. I had a vague ide

Scotland saw a two per cent fall in the number of crimes recorded by police last year. Newly-published national statistics show that Police Scotland recorded 287,678 crimes in the year ending December 2022 compared to 292,316 crimes in the previous 12 months – and four per cent lower than the

With Scot­land and the rest of the UK con­tin­u­ally miss­ing house­build­ing tar­gets, Fraser Mitchell asks: what are the road­blocks to build­ing? Figures from industry body Homes for Scotland indicate that there is currently a shortage of almost 100,000 hom

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar entitled ‘Exit planning – Employee Ownership and Enterprise Management Incentives’ at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 30th March 2023. Gordon Buist

A very comprehensive programme will be presented at CLT Scotland’s Elder Client Conference taking place exclusively in-person on Tuesday 7 March at the Hilton Glasgow. Sponsored by Title Research, the conference will be chaired by Blackadders’ John Kerrigan and will include topics rangin

Disabling Barriers Scotland, established in December, last year, is holding its next meeting on 7 March at 17:30. The group, founded by Tom McGovern and Fraser Mackay, is open to support from all who have an interest in making the Scottish legal sector more accessible for those with a disability.