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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing a legal attempt to deprive it of its status as an independent group following its advice on transgender rights. LGBT charities want the United Nations to demote the EHRC because it called for a pause on proposed reforms to the Gender Recognit

The High Court of Justiciary has refused a Crown appeal against a sheriff’s decision that an indictment against a former teacher accused of lewd, indecent, and libidinous practices against pupils should be deserted. It was pled by the respondent, Paul Cooney, that the Lord Advocate, through th

A black QC has called for wigs to be banned from court following an incident in which another barrister was told he must wear one or face disciplinary action. Leslie Thomas QC said wigs were “fashioned for caucasian hair” and look “ridiculous” on black barristers.

A security guard has been sacked after defacing a valuable Russian painting by drawing eyes on its blank-faced figures with a ballpoint pen. The guard took a pen to Anna Leporskaya's avant-garde painting Three Figures on his first day working at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in the city of Y

When Scotland’s most senior judge and his colleagues oppose the suggested reforms to the legal profession and when he is joined in opposition by both the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and the President of the Law Society of Scotland, on behalf of their respective bodies, some might be conce

A Lord Ordinary has allowed a proof to determine whether a completion certificate for the construction of an advertising totem outside Glasgow Airport was false in a dispute over an agreement to enter a sub-lease of the land the totem was built on. The action was originally raised by the head tenant

Legal and estate agency Pacitti Jones has acquired Dennistoun estate agency Tip Top Homes.

After the launch of our ‘Connecting Trainees’ sessions in February 2021, we are delighted to celebrate the one year anniversary of these sessions and bring them back for a fourth time due to popular demand. Starting a traineeship remotely rather than in the office can feel rather strange

Addleshaw Goddard (AG) and Irish law firm Eugene F Collins are to merge. The business, people and all 25 Eugene F Collins partners will become part of the Addleshaw Goddard group by 1 March 2022.

Pupils from 16 schools across Scotland have progressed into the semi-finals of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, organised by the Law Society of Scotland. The second-round heats of the annual debating competition in January saw 32 teams from 31 schools debate the motion "This house woul

New legislation has been published to ensure all nationals of Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain can stand as candidates in Scottish local government elections. Following changes made in 2020, all nationals from these countries can already vote in local elections and those with settled status or

Solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Scottish Ballet. Ms Ahmad-Ali was recently made head of legal for Europe at UnitedHealthcare, part of the UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 500 company. Before this, she worked at The Weir Group PLC and Cigna, wher

Balfour and Manson senior associate Michaela Guthrie has gained a Law Society of Scotland accreditation in medical negligence law. Ms Guthrie joined Balfour and Manson as a trainee in 2014, spending the final year of her traineeship working closely with partner Ann Logan. She has specialised in medi

The Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has called on the Scottish government to start justifying its use of emergency regulation-making powers and detail why they are being used in each instance. The powers, known as the ‘made affirmative procedure’, al

Four men have been jailed for life for the murder of a man who was shot in the head as he sat in a car at traffic lights. Kenny Reilly, 29, was shot in Maryhill, Glasgow, on 16 April 2018 and died two days later.