Claire Mitchell QC and solicitor Ian Moir are to speak at an event hosted by the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) to raise awareness of legal aid issues in Scotland.
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JUSTICE Scotland’s Annual Human Rights Day Lecture will return on 21 January 2021 with a discussion on the Human Rights Act. Twenty years of the Human Rights Act: a Scottish Perspective will feature a panel of four top speakers, chaired by Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court.
Benjamin Bestgen gives readers an overview of smart contracts this week. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Part of being a lawyer in the 21st century is the necessity to develop a degree of digital literacy, whether you like it or not. The legal world, it is often said, tends to be conservat
A woman declared dead by a court is still struggling to undo the ruling more than three years after pointing out she's still alive. Jeanne Pouchain, a 58-year-old from a town near the French city of Lyon, was ruled dead in 2017 during a long-running dispute with a former employee.
A sheriff in Dumbarton has granted a crave for division and sale of a property in Bearsden jointly owned by two feuding former sisters-in-law following several years of legal correspondence between them with no agreement. Mridu Marwaha raised the action against her former sister-in-law&nb
Two Scottish judges are among a group that will sit in the Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) this term.
There are advantages to having a bit of age on you when you’re a family lawyer – quite apart from the fact that you are less likely to be trying to home school your own children. If you are 40 plus you will remember family law pre-Brussels II, which is going to be useful in this post-Bre
When Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf announced plans for increased fees and a series of grants in the dying days of 2020, he said he was offering up a “significant package of support” for legal aid practitioners who had “worked hard since the Covid-19 outbreak to help maintain acces
A man who possessed a crossbow and other items for terrorist purposes has been jailed. Gabrielle Friel had amassed a collection of weapons in his Edinburgh flat, including a crossbow, scope, 15 crossbow arrows, a machete and ballistic vest.
According to a recent survey, post-Brexit Britain is considered a prime real estate proposition by investors, developers and asset managers from across Europe, China and the US. Notably, it ranked the UK highest for future residential property investment. The UK property sector reportedly attracts i
The second edition of Adrian Stalker‘s hotly-anticipated Evictions in Scotland has been published by Edinburgh University Press. At more than double the length of the 2007 first edition, the new edition states the law as at 31 May 2020.
Macdonald Henderson has been named among The Times Best Law Firms for 2021. The MH team is one of only eight Scottish firms to be featured for its work in mergers and acquisitions, alongside global/UK regional giants and large Scottish heavyweights.
Thursday 29 January 2021 The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is hosting a “Beyond the Basics” webinar on the new jurisdictional rules that will apply to family law cases from 1 January 2021. The event will give attendees an overview of the following topics and offer practical
The New York State Bar Association is debating whether to disbar Donald Trump's attorney, former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. The bar published a statement accusing Mr Giuliani of playing a part in the Capitol incident last week.
A Stalin-themed kebab shop has apparently been liquidated by state officials less than a week after opening its doors. Police have detained the owner of the controversial Stal'in Doner kebab shop, where food was named after Soviet figures and staff wore NKVD uniforms, The Times reports.