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The Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) has today launched a new specialist legal service to provide legal information, advice and representation to women who have experienced sexual harassment at work, in further education or online. This is a unique service in Scotland made possible by fun

Earlier this year the UK government consulted on crowning HMRC with a promoted ranking in the insolvency of corporates and individuals. This month, it has published the draft 2019-2020 Finance Bill containing the legislative provisions that will bring this coronation into law. Michael Thomson explai

The Inner House of the Court of Session has again considered the vexing issue of notice requirements, write Gillian Craig and Josh Grieveson. Facts

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see staff at Edinburgh Law School take to the stage and Old College become one of the city's hundreds of venues. For the second year in a row, Dr Smita Kheria, senior lecturer in intellectual property law, will perform her show No copyright, no problem? as

A new free exhibition by National Records of Scotland (NRS) reveals the hidden histories of prisoner-patients of the Victorian era. Opening today, Prisoners or Patients? Criminal Insanity in Victorian Scotland uses never before displayed records and photographs to reveal tragic stories of crime, tre

Suspected sex offenders should remain anonymous until charged so long as they have a reputation to protect, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland QC has said. The new Lord Chancellor, who backed a campaign by Sir Cliff Richard and Paul Gambaccini to impose a ban on revealing the names of people arrested

A man charged with car theft was arrested again after allegedly showing up to court in another stolen car. The 34-year-old was arrested just after attending court in a town near Adelaide, Australia on a charge of illegally using a motor vehicle.

A Hebridean crofting couple who raised an action for damages after a neighbours’ bull strayed onto their land and impregnated their pedigree cow have had their claim dismissed. Bernard and Kathleen Allen, from Great Bernera on Lewis, went to court to pursue a reported £20,000 i

DWF Group plc, with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, saw revenue growth of 15 per cent in a "milestone year" which saw it become the largest listed full-service legal business on the London Stock Exchange. In an inaugural results statement, the group said revenue was up by 15 per cent, or 12.5 per

Andrew Foyle reasons that new case law on calling up notices has simply raised more questions for lawyers in search of answers. In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled that in every case where a secured creditor seeks possession of a property following a monetary default, a calling up notice must be served.

Academics have called on the Scottish government to uphold sex-based protections in the Equality Act 2010 and to facilitate open debate on sex and gender identity issues in a paper that claims democratic policy-making has become vulnerable to ideologically-driven lobbying, namely from transgender ri

More than 30 organisations working with migrants and refugees have written to the new Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to raise a number of pressing issues "which require action if the immigration and asylum system is to regain the trust of the public". The letter, whose signatories include representati

Professor R. Daniel Kelemen, professor of political science and law and Jean Monnet chair in European Union politics at Rutgers University, writes on the change of leadership in the UK and the EU. The incoming President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the new Prime Minister of th

Human rights NGO Reprieve has intervened in a UK Supreme Court case arguing that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria. Maha Elgizouli V Secretary of State for the Home Departm

Dominic Grieve QC, the former Attorney General for England and Wales, has narrowly beaten Joanna Cherry QC in the SLN poll that asked readers which lawyer and parliamentarian had conducted themselves most admirably from a legal perspective during the current Brexit debacle. Labour’s Sir K