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The Press and Journal has published an obituary of Alan McNiven, who has passed away at the age of 70. "One of the leading figures in Scotland’s legal community, Alan McNiven, has died aged 70 after a long fight against a form of Parkinson’s disease."

An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors. The School Mock Court Case Project runs an educational programme through a UK and worldwide inter-school competition that sees school children argue a mock trial in a real court in front of a sheriff.

Burges Salmon has been recognised with a platinum ‘We invest in people’ accreditation by Investors in People for the policies and practices in place at the firm to support its people and enable them to flourish. Areas highlighted in the accreditation assessment include: the firm’s

The president of the Philippines has threatened to round up Filipinos who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 and "inject the vaccine in [their] butt". "If you don't want to get vaccinated, I'll have you arrested and I'll inject the vaccine in your butt," President Rodrigo Duterte said on TV th

A limited partner in a Scottish investment fund has succeeded in the first stage of an action of count, reckoning and payment against the partnership and its general partners before the Outer House of the Court of Session. Johann Herberstein believed that the value of his interest in the p

The Dean of Faculty has cautioned against “kneejerk reactions” to abolishing the 'not proven' verdict and dividing the role of the Lord Advocate. Roddy Dunlop QC made the remarks as Dorothy Bain QC was sworn in as Lord Advocate. Ms Bain replaces James Wolffe QC, during whose tenure polit

Legal experts have agreed on a definition of the crime of 'ecocide', which they hope will be adopted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The draft law defines the offence as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread

Tens of thousands of EU citizens in the UK are set to receive letters from the Home Office warning them that they could lose their right to healthcare and employment if they do not immediately apply for settled status. The deadline for applying to the EU settlement scheme is next Wednesday 30 June,

Victims of domestic abuse are being urged to report incidents to police by Justice Secretary Keith Brown. The call comes after official figures show the police recorded 62,907 incidents of domestic abuse in 2019-20 – an increase of four per cent compared to the previous year.

Three Scottish law schools have been included in the top 10 of the Complete University Guide's 2021 rankings for law. Cambridge and Oxford took first and second place respectively, followed by UCL in third and LSE in fourth.

A former prison officer who murdered his friend and disposed of her body in woodland has been jailed for life. Ross Willox was found guilty of the murder of Emma Faulds, 39, after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow last month. On Tuesday he was jailed for life.

Since the beginning of the millennium, the USA and the EU Member States have created and implemented legislation intended to provide limited exceptions to hosts’ liability when illegal or infringing content has been uploaded by internet users, writes James McFarlane. This was an important prot

The XXVth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) in Edinburgh has been postponed by a year and will now be held on 21 September 2022.

An unexpected plague of mice has forced hundreds of prisoners and prison staff to evacuate. The population of mice in New South Wales, Australia, has boomed in the last year due to an extremely good grain harvest.

Society should adopt asynchronous legal hearings, Professor Richard Susskind has said. Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland on what lies ahead for civil justice, the legal futurist laid out developments in the court system that he expects to see.