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On Friday around 150 mediators from all over the world will gather in two online seminars to discuss their commitment to reducing their collective and individual carbon footprints and to helping to build sustainable dispute resolution systems in their countries.  The World Mediators’ Alli

A pregnant woman in Poland has died from septic shock which doctors allegedly did not treat properly out of concern they would fall foul of the country's strict anti-abortion laws. Polish lawyer Jolanta Budzowska said doctors "waited for the foetus to die" based on their interpretation of a controve

A team of academic researchers from Glasgow and Napier Universities are gathering information from lawyers about the processes of child contact matters where there are allegations of domestic abuse.  Scotland has an ambitious agenda for modernising child law, delivering children’s rights

A man has accused two companies of discriminating against him on the basis of his support for Rangers FC. Edward McClung described his football loyalty as a "philosophical belief" in what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind employment tribunal case, The Telegraph reports.

An Orkney fish farming company has been unsuccessful in its challenge by judicial review of the decision of the Scottish Ministers to refuse two applications to develop salmon farms off the Orkney coast. The petitioner, Orkney Marine Farms Ltd, argued that the reporters for the respondent had acted

Defence solicitors will not enter Edinburgh Sheriff Court today after a member of the profession was removed by police from the court building on Saturday without explanation – and at the behest of a member of court staff. While undertaking its boycott of the custody court, an Edinburgh Bar As

Nine prisoners have died at a maximum security prison this year, where guards have claimed authorities turn a blind eye as inmates are easier to deal with when they are on drugs, The Times reports. The deaths happened at HMP Shotts, in North Lanarkshire. Russell Findlay, the Conservative MSP for Wes

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court went into lockdown last week after a lawyer received a positive Covid test. Defence lawyer Graeme Cunningham, 57, was representing a number of clients at the court on Thursday, the Daily Record reports.

Lord Menzies is to retire after 20 years on the bench. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2001 and was appointed to the Inner House in February 2012.

Murgitroyd has announced its acquisition of of UDL Intellectual Property (UDL), a UK-based IP practice. This follows its recent acquisition of Hanna Moore + Curley in Ireland. UDL, founded over 100 years ago, is headquartered in Leeds, with offices in Bristol, Cardiff, London, Milton Keynes, and New

One of Scotland’s longest-serving civil solicitor advocates, Tom Marshall, retired from practice yesterday. A graduate of Dundee University, he trained with Bishop & Company in Glasgow before becoming a partner in the firm, by then called Bishop and Robertson Chalmers, in Edinburgh in 1988

Legal academic Eamon Keane will be taking up a post as lecturer in evidence and criminal procedure at the University of Glasgow next year. Currently a member of the Edinburgh Law School faculty, he joined last year as an early career fellow in criminal law and evidence. He is also a qualified solici

A scheme organised by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC has seen more than 100 female Afghan judges and their families rescued, The Times reports. Working with a team of pro bono lawyers, she has raised more than £1 million, chartered planes and organised the transfer of hundreds of people to Athens.

The UK’s national human rights institutions are warning that the human rights implications of the climate crisis must be tackled during COP26 in Glasgow. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission highlighted that

Turcan Connell is hosting a series of short virtual seminars covering the legal (and other) implications of the evolving market for trading carbon in the UK. Land and property partner, Don Macleod, said: “Over the last couple of years we have been advising some of the major participants in the