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The Tumbling Lassie committee is delighted to welcome you to an evening talk with Richard Blake, on the life of John Grant, who was the chief justice of Jamaica from 1783 to 1790. Grant was born in Invernesshire. He travelled as a young teenager to Nova Scotia, and then on to Jamaica. His manuscript

Join Edinburgh Law School for an Alumni & Friends Discussion with Professors Jo Shaw, Salvesen chair of European Institutions and head of Edinburgh Law School, and Niamh Nic Shuibhne, professor of European Union Law, to explore the question: ‘Do the fundamentals of EU law still matter?&rsq

Five members of a notorious serious organised crime gang who ran a massive drugs trafficking empire in Inverclyde have been jailed for a total of 31 years and eight months. Lee Docherty, 37, Ian Millar, 39, Brendan Gillan, 32, his father Daniel Gillan, 60, and Christopher McKellar, 44, pled guilty t

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel strike that killed 106 people in Gaza ‘apparent war crime’: Probe

Three former UK Supreme Court judges have joined hundreds of senior lawyers in calling on the UK government to immediately suspend arms sales to Israel because of a "serious risk of genocide". Former Supreme Court president Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Sumption and Lord Wilson are among the highe

TLT has advised Aberdeen-headquartered engineered leak sealing solution specialist Kinetics Controls and Innovation Limited (KCI) on the transfer of its entire shareholding to an employee ownership trust (EOT). TLT’s corporate team provided legal advice on all aspects of the transfer of shareh

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCCW) has announced a number of promotions at the firm.

An attempt to overturn an anti-gay law has been rejected by Uganda's constitutional court. “We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement,” said Justice Richard Buteera, the country's deputy chi

Thorntons is introducing family-friendly policies. New mothers will receive treble the existing paid maternity, which is rising to 26 weeks at full pay and 13 weeks’ half pay. People who adopt will be entitled to the same benefits.

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 34-year-old Brendan Reilly. Mr Reilly was found dead in his cell within HMP Bowhouse, Kilmarnock on the morning of 11 June 2021.

The "black sheep" of a German brewing dynasty is suing his sisters because he was allegedly tricked out of his inheritance while hungover. Carl-Clemens Veltins, 61, claims that he is entitled to a stake in the 200-year-old Veltins brewery company in North Rhine-Westphalia, which produces one of Germ

A Dundee lawyer who defrauded a late friend’s daughter out of almost £3,000 has been ordered to perform unpaid work. Ian Davidson, 62, who was struck from the roll in 2022, scammed Pauline Martin, the daughter of his friend, by making her write a cheque out to him instead of la

Dr Deval Desai, reader in international economic law at Edinburgh Law School, has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (RSE) 2024 Dame Muriel Spark Medal. This award recognises exceptional achievements in the arts, humanities, and social sciences by an early career researcher, which D

At long last Scotland will top the world’s rankings in something. Not football, sadly, writes Tony Lenehan KC, president of Faculty of Advocates Criminal Bar Association. With the publication of the Justice Committee’s report on Good Friday, we can look forward to a world in which o

Victims minister Siobhian Brown has been asked to stop misrepresenting the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which came into force this week. For Women Scotland and Murray Blackburn Mackenzie have called on Ms Brown to get the law right and to stop making incorrect statements abo