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The Roman delict of iniuria is the focus of the first lecture in a three-part series delivered by Paul du Plessis, professor of Roman law at the University of Edinburgh. The Civil Law in Three Acts is the subject of this year's Alan Watson Memorial Lecture series.

A landmark ruling that a couple’s Islamic marriage falls within the scope of English marriage law but is void has been overturned by the Court of Appeal. In a judgment which could affect thousands of Muslims in England and Wales, the court has said that the "nikah" ceremony was an invalid cere

The journalist and legal commentator, Joshua Rozenberg QC (hon), will launch his new book in Scotland at an event chaired by the Faculty of Advocates' Mungo Bovey QC. Mr Rozenberg is guest speaker at a Literary Lunch by BOOKMARK book festival at Ballathie House Hotel, Perthshire, on Sunday, 14

A set of seminars at Edinburgh University aim to examine the role that law has played in facilitating the accumulation and distribution of wealth and the inequality that has resulted. The first seminar in the 'Law, Wealth and Inequality' project will focus on the role law, and in particular property

Work to establish a dedicated Mental Health Court in Northern Ireland is set to move forward later this year. The Department of Justice has confirmed that a project board for the proposed problem-solving court has been established and plans will be developed in conjunction with other stakeholders in

A polygamist with three wives and ten children has told a court that he helped to defraud the US government of nearly $470 million (€434m). The huge sum obtained through a clean energy subsidy scam was allegedly spent on real estate in the US and Turkey and expensive cars including a $1.7 milli

A homeowner who sued his former lawyers after they failed to advise him to include a survivorship clause when transferring the title of his property into the joint names of himself and his then fiancée, who later died and left her half-share to her children from a previous relationship, has h

More than half a million pounds has been recovered from two men who made the cash selling “legal highs” online. An investigation was launched into Stuart Percival, 33, by the Civil Recovery Unit – a specialist team of expert solicitors and financial investigators working under inst

The Scottish property market enjoyed a sharp rise in sales following Boris Johnson’s general election win, new research has revealed. Aberdein Considine’s Property Monitor report shows more than 10,000 homes changed hands in December, an unseasonal jump of 15 per cent on November an

John Campbell QC has been appointed as Scotland’s only representative panel arbitrator at the newly formed Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA), in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has grown out of a series of conferences and discussions within the Authentication in Art Mediation Board and the

Some 58 per cent of women in the legal profession say they or women they work with have experienced inappropriate comments from male colleagues relating to their gender, new research has found. Almost half, 46 per cent, reported that either they or one of their colleagues had not complained about di

Dundee University has prevailed at the annual Lord Jones Moot competition. This year's competition saw 12 teams compete from the Universities of Dundee, Abertay, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Napier, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is to host the European Young Bar Association's Spring Conference in Glasgow between 23 and 26 April 2020. The topics for this year's conference are technology and the environment. They will be considered both as areas of the law and as issue effec

More than 1,110 former officials at the Justice Department have called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign. The statement, signed mostly by former career prosecutors, but also by some political appointees, said: "Mr Barr's actions in doing the President's personal bidding unfortunately speak lou

The Supreme Court of India has made it mandatory for political parties to publish the names of candidates with criminal records and the reasons for which they are being fielded. The court said there was an "alarming rise" in "criminal candidates"  that had to be urgently addressed.