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Former US president Donald Trump has appointed new lawyers for his imminent impeachment trial following the late-in-the-day collapse of his defence team. He had been abandoned by five lawyers due to disagreements over legal strategy less than two weeks before the beginning of the landmark impeachmen
A lawyer who inadvertently broadcast himself having sex with his client to a bemused judge in an online court hearing has been disbarred for life. Héctor Cipriano Paredes Robles, a criminal lawyer in Peru, apparently believed the court was in recess and thought his camera was turned off.
Two appeals by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator against the Upper Tribunal for Scotland’s decision to allow two companies to be entered on the register of charities has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The respondents, New Lanark Hotels L
David Whitehouse has given a searing account of his ordeal at the hands of Scottish prosecutors and police who subjected him and his colleague Paul Clark to what the authorities now admit was a malicious prosecution. It is a mortifying description of what citizens of rogue states around the world wo
We live in turbulent times. Times we simply could not have imagined a few years ago. Some of this article is about all of us. Some of it is about lawyers. Some of it is about lawyers my age. And some of it is about me. I accept that in my case the Autumn Moon Lights My Way.
David Whitehouse, who is understood to have been awarded £10 million from the Crown Office in an out-of-court settlement and millions more from Police Scotland in addition to legal costs, has criticised the current Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, for an apology sent to him that fails to detail
One of the victims of Scotland's malicious prosecution scandal has described his ordeal at the hands of Scottish police and prosecutors. It is a shocking account that will horrify and appal many of our readers. David Whitehouse, whose promising career was derailed by his arrest and imprisonment, has
Lord Uist has retired from the bench. Lord Uist was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in April 2006, having previously served as a temporary judge from July 2001.
Five new partner promotions at Burness Paull signal the legal brand’s confidence in future growth after delivering a strong performance through 2020. The five are drawn from three of the firm’s strongest performing divisions.
Michaela Guthrie has been made a senior associate at Balfour and Manson. The promotion of Ms Guthrie – who joined the firm in January 2014 and started her traineeship in August that year – takes effect from today.
Trust between the UK and EU has been dented by the trade row last weekend over Covid vaccines. That same trust is going to be a key issue in how crime is investigated across borders post-Brexit, writes Sarah Munro. While 31 January 2020 was celebrated by many as the day Brexit was ‘done,&rsquo
Seven years after it began, the long-running inquiry into the Edinburgh trams construction fiasco has now taken longer than the delayed network took to build. The delay has forced the Scottish government to allocate additional funding of £500,000 for the inquiry in the 2021-22 Scotti
A working group considering a standalone offence of misogynistic behaviour is to begin its work this month. The independent working group, chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, to consider the creation of a standalone offence to help tackle misogyny, will hold its inaugural meeting later this
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) should lower the levy on lawyers rather than keep it the current level, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The SLCC has opened a consultation on its budget and operating plan for 2021-22 that proposes to freeze the levy on lawyers.