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Scotland's Supreme Court panel to report before summer break

A “stellar cast” of four Scottish lawyers have been given less than one month to provide an interim review of Scotland's subscription to the Supreme Court.

Update: education

With big change afoot, Anita Chopra and Salima Mawji consider the education bill, the green paper on special educational needs and a High Court discussion of the contractual relationship between a law student and her university

Bar attacks LSB for failing to ban referral fees for advocates

The Bar Council has said it is “surprised and disappointed” that the LSB failed to ban referral fees.

Double entry

Has Jackson really been too kind to insurers? Simon Gibbs does the sums

Judicial review court to be mothballed next week

Hearings at Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, the court at the centre of the legal battle against the government's radical closure programme, will end tomorrow.

Police guidelines on retaining DNA profiles are unlawful, Supreme Court rules

Guidelines used by the police to determine when they should destroy DNA profiles and fingerprints are unlawful and incompatible with article 8 of the ECHR, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Adams to appeal to Europe after miscarriages of justice ruling

The Supreme Court has extended the category of people entitled to compensation following a miscarriage of justice, but not far enough to include Andrew Adams, who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1993 and released after 14 years.

Lord Phillips extends compensation for miscarriages of justice

The Supreme Court has extended the category of people entitled to compensation following a miscarriage of justice.