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Advocate Niall McCluskey's one-hour CPD seminar on the Coronavirus Act 2020 is now available for free online. The law which was fast-tracked through Parliament in three days has given ministers, councils, police, health professionals and coroners far-reaching additional powers during the UK’s

Neil Mackenzie QC, director of training at the Faculty of Advocates, has offered to hold a Zoom chat with anyone interested in finding out more about the Scottish bar. He tweeted: "A question for school pupils, students, trainees and solicitors curious about what the Scottish Bar is and does, would

A motorist who told police he was speeding because he was trying to avoid catching coronavirus has been referred to court. Surrey Police said they pulled over the man driving on the M25 at 130 miles per hour on Tuesday.

A woman running a dog walking business in the Edinburgh area has succeeded in an action for defamation against another woman who operated a similar business. Heather Hiram, trading as Safe & Sound Hound, claimed that a video uploaded to Facebook by Alana Mullen, trading as Pi

Robert Weir QC was today installed as a Senator of the College of Justice at a ceremony held in Parliament House. Social distancing was observed at the installation, held before a bench of two judges, the Lord President and the Lord Justice Clerk.

Civil cases brought in Scotland's courts have declined by 11 per cent in the past year, according to new figures. Scottish government data show that in 2018-19, 72,100 civil cases were brought before the Court of Session or sheriff courts.

Alison Grandison has joined Edinburgh-based solicitors Urquharts as a partner. Ms Grandison has spent the last five years as a senior associate with Simpson & Marwick Property. She qualified as a solicitor in 2006 while at Archibald Campbell & Harley W.S., which later merged with Shoosmiths,

Jim Bauld outlines what the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act means for antisocial tenants. The Scottish Parliament has moved to pass emergency legislation to deal with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 is now on the statute books.

Professor Peter Watson of PBW Law has been appointed to a panel studying the coronavirus threat for police in Scotland. Professor Watson is the legal member of the panel tasked with giving specialist advice on the safeguards police require.

EU member states cannot unilaterally rely on alleged fraud to set aside certificates for social security coverage validly issued by another member state, the European Court of Justice has ruled in a landmark judgment on the posting of workers. Although member states can disregard certificates which

The winning team in last week's landmark Morrisons case is delivering a webinar on what it means for business. DWF's employment, data protection and commercial litigation specialists will be answering questions live at the event, which streams on April 21 from 1100 to 1200.

International legal consensus on the nature of cryptoassets as property rights will be required if they become widely used, Lord Hodge has said. The Deputy President of the Supreme Court said this was "the most pressing" property law issue in relation to cryptoassets.

In the second of his jurisprudential primers, Benjamin Bestgen invokes Greek wisdom in thinking about the merits of democracy. See part one here. Likening statecraft to captaining a ship goes back to the Greek poet Alcaeus of Mytilene but was made famous in Plato’s Republic.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

A woman who accused her astronaut wife of committing the first-ever "space crime" has been charged with making false statements. The allegations made against US astronaut Lieutenant-Colonel Anne McClain just over a year ago raised complex legal questions around criminal jurisdiction in space.