Weekly roundup of Scots law in the headlines including Scottish Government facing transgender prison review - February 9

This week's review of all the latest headlines from the world of Scots Law and beyond includes the review of transgender inmates in Scottish prisoners.

Campaigners challenge Scottish policy on transgender inmates in female prisons

Female prisoners are paying the price for an “Orwellian” Scottish government policy that allows some transgender inmates to be housed in female prisons, Scotland’s highest civil court has heard. (Guardian)

• Campaigners challenge Scottish policy on transgender inmates in female prisons (Guardian)
• Watchdogs raise concerns over transgender prisoners (BBC)
• No automatic breach of rights from trans women in female prisons, court told (Alloa Advertiser)

'We're in hell': Mum faces two-year wait for answers about her lawyer daughter's LA death

June Bunyan had a love of adventure. Brought up on a Scottish island, in 2023 she moved to California, where she wanted to pursue her dream of becoming a defence attorney.

But less than two months after her daughter Regina was born, 37-year-old June's dismembered body was found at her flat in LA. Her husband was charged with her murder. (BBC)

• 'We're in hell': Mum faces two-year wait for answers about her daughter's LA death (BBC)
• Mum of Scots lawyer brutally murdered in LA 'living in hell' amid two-year wait for answers (Daily Record)

And in other news

Legal headlines from across the UK and beyond:

• MSP behind assisted dying bill backs change to eligibility rules (BBC)
• Man who set prison staff cars on fire on Christmas Day jailed (BBC)
• Brad Karp: Wall Street law firm boss resigns after emails to Epstein released (Guardian)
• [£] Kirkland & Ellis lawyer sought use of Epstein helicopter after securing plea (Financial Times)
• Three jailed for killing man who jumped out of window in Dundee (BBC)
• Solicitor struck off for lying about first-class law degree (Legal Cheek)
• Prostitution Scotland: Proposals to overhaul law fall at the first hurdle (Scotsman)
• [£] First Brands founder Patrick James pleads not guilty in company’s collapse (Financial Times)
• Scottish Parliament rejects prostitution bill at stage one (BBC)
• [£] Leveson review calls for remote hearings (Times)
• Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site (Guardian)
• Eight out of 10 conveyancing firms using AI (Legal Futures)
• [£] Owen Davies KC: ‘I’ve survived without going mad or bankrupt’ (Times)
• Review calls for more remote hearings to save courts system from ‘collapse’ (Guardian)
• [£] Trying to gauge BNP Paribas’s legal risk (Financial Times)