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Govan Law Centre is now running a free and confidential online advice service. In his Glasgow Evening Times column, GLC principal Mike Dailly said: "From today we will now provide free and confidential advice through WhatsApp, Facebook messenger and e-mail. We are also launching a free call-back tel

Balfour and Manson's Jamie Foulis has been accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in regulation of professional conduct law. He joins Elaine Motion, Fiona Muirs and Alastair Milne who are also all accredited in this field.

A new energy law firm has been established in Aberdeen. Lex Energy has been co-founded by lawyers Philip Argo, Elaine Benton and Calum Crighton.

The Council of Europe has launched an updated version of its free online “Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights”, a five-hour interactive training course aimed at legal professionals, public authorities, civil society and students. “Europe has the strongest system

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has briefed Scotland’s MSPs on the human rights implications of the Coronavirus Bill, which will be considered by the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 1 April. The commission said that while it recognises the positive obligations on government to take reaso

A new website has been launched to track the use of alternatives to traditional court hearings during the coronavirus pandemic. Legal technologist Professor Richard Susskind, who is president of the Society for Computers and Law, said remotecourts.org is "designed to help the global community of jus

Watermans Legal has announced it will be offering a discount to health workers throughout 2020. The demand for wills has soared in the past month after the global health crisis sparked a surge of people enquiring about getting their affairs in order.

A thief raiding a parked car was foiled after the vehicle's owner used a remote key to trap him until police arrived. The owner spotted Scott Hunt, 45, rummaging through the car in the early hours of the morning from his window and locked the doors, The Times reports.

Dean of Faculty, Gordon Jackson QC, has referred himself to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) following the publication of footage in which he made comments about the trial of Alex Salmond, who was vindicated last week of various sexual offence charges at the High Court in Edinburgh. M

The UK government has been advised by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it can use anonymised mobile phone data in order to track people who have COVID-19. Deputy commissioner Steve Wood said in a statement: “Generalised location data trend analysis is helping to tackle the coro

The Lord President, Lord Carloway has published short statement intended to offer general advice to parents and carers whose children are the subject of orders made by a court relating to parental responsibilities and rights, for example in relation to contact or residence.

Aisha Anwar has been appointed sheriff principal for the South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway Sheriffdom and will take up her appointment on Wednesday. Sheriff Principal Anwar, who replaces Sheriff Principal Abercrombie, was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen on the recommendation of the First M

Bellwether Green has announced the appointment of Fran Ennis as head of litigation and regulation. Joining after 12 years at Pinsent Masons, Ms Ennis has acted on behalf of an extensive range of commercial clients from international hotel chains, major sporting institutions, banks and insolvency pra

The Scottish government has fleshed out the details of its plans to give private and social tenants increased protection from eviction ahead of the emergency legislation being introduced at Holyrood tomorrow. The Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill will increase the minimum notice period for private an

The UK's wrongful trading law will be suspended to allow businesses to "weather the storm" of the coronavirus pandemic, business secretary Alok Sharma has announced. The change, backdated to apply from 1 March 2020, will allow directors of companies to pay staff and suppliers even if the compan