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Scottish law schools say they’re not AI stragglers but careful adopters of the technology — pushing back against criticism they argue overlooks years of teaching, research and innovation.
This week's review of all the latest headlines from the world of Scots Law and beyond includes a look at why shorter prison sentences are under consideration.
Pursue a career unlike any other in the RAF, whose mission and outputs give rise to a variety of interesting legal matters.
Legal AI is not going to “arrive” one day. It may settle — quietly, by default — inside the tools we already use. And if that happens, the question won’t be which product you chose. It will be which platform chose you.
2025 marked five years since the introduction of group proceedings (known in some jurisdictions as ‘class actions’) in Scotland.
When something goes wrong, lawyers are often drawn immediately into the centre of events.
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