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Evidence is urgently required to show whether all hospital patients discharged to care homes during the height of the coronavirus pandemic were moved lawfully, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The society has called on the Scottish government to provide data on the legal basis of the transfers,

Ensuring next year’s Holyrood election can take place is the focus of a new bill being considered by the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. With the election currently due to take place on 6 May 2021, the impact of Covid-19 means that contingen

New cases registered have risen to 78 per cent of the average monthly pre-Covid level, new figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show. The figures show the volumes of cases being progressed each month in the High Court, Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court from April 20

The data protection landscape for businesses and public authorities changed beyond recognition on 25 May 2018 when the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 came into force. It seems remarkable that nearly two and a half years has passed. At the time, no-one could have predicted that for the majority of

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of James Hamilton Rust WS, partner at Morton Fraser, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 62. "James Hamilton Rust was the epitome of the Scottish 'man o' pairts'. In addition to pursuing a hugely successful legal career as a partner of Morton Fr

The first edition of a new student legal journal has been published. The University of St Andrews Law Journal features articles ranging from the impeachment of Warren Hastings, who laid the foundations of British rule in India, to the legalities surrounding the KGB’s pursuit of defectors and a

The son of Christine Keeler, the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair, is seeking a posthumous pardon for her, The Times reports. Ms Keeler, a model, had an affair with government minister John Profumo in 1961 when she was 19. The affair nearly brought down the government of Harold Macmillan in

Benjamin Bestgen asks us this week to consider just prices. See last week's jurisprudential primer here. Caricatures of fatcat lawyers and greedy shysters lining their pockets through frivolous claims and overcharging clients have linked the legal profession unflatteringly with money for centur

A High Court judge whose father was a law lord has been used as an example of diversity on the bench by the Judicial Office of England and Wales. Mrs Justice Steyn appears in a video answering questions on how she got into law and the obstacles she faced in her career, Legal Cheek reports.

A former tenant of an office complex in Glasgow that had to vacate the premises for necessary repairs has successfully established its entitlement to abate the rent as a result of the works.  Fern Trustee 1 Ltd and Fern Trustee 2 Ltd, trustees of the Buchanan House Unit Trust, origina

The Crown Office has apologised for taking a decade to complete an inquiry into the death of a seaman. Stanislaw Bania, 58, an able seaman, died from “cold water immersion” after he fell into the Clyde from a ship that was unloading at King George V Docks in 2010.

A new bill to allow arrangements to be put in place for the Scottish general election in response to Covid-19 has been introduced at Holyrood. The election is currently planned for 6 May 2021.

The only qualified family law arbitrator in Dundee has set up her own legal practice following 15 years with one of Scotland’s largest law firms. Amanda Wilson, formerly a partner with Thorntons, has launched Amanda Wilson Family Law, providing specialist support for families on everything fro

Further to our piece of 11 November, Lord Stewart, a former Senator of the College of Justice, writes with more detail about the fascinating life of his grandfather Archibald Stewart, who died in the bombing of Campbeltown in 1941. Gillian Mawdsley’s Armistice Day article about the death of my

The Judicial Institute for Scotland has published a new resource to support judges conducting jury trials using remote centres. Restarting Solemn Trials, which may also be useful for practitioners, aims to support judges, including sheriffs, in conducting jury trials using: