Difficulties could be created if Scotland alone in the UK forges ahead with a new system for legal recognition of acquired gender, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government is looking to introduce a self-declaration system for legal gender recognition, removing the need for app
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Philippa Cunniff On International Women’s Day 2018, Philippa Cunniff, partner and head of family law at Gilson Gray LLP, shares her experiences as a woman in the legal profession.
Maggie Moodie Morton Fraser has introduced a formal 'agile working' policy as part of a wider focus on employee wellbeing and organisational flexibility.
Pupils from sixteen schools across Scotland have battled their way to this week's semi-finals of the Law Society of Scotland’s Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament.
A petition seeking judicial review of the United Kingdom Government’s “position” on the revocability of a notice of intention to withdraw from the European Union in terms of Article 50.2 of the Treaty on European Union has been granted permission to proceed following an appeal. The Lord Ordina
The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to embrace major changes to the way it administers legal complaints in a bid to avoid an above inflation hike in costs. The SLCC has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19. A proposed rise of up
Douglas Rankin Marks & Clerk has hailed significant growth in the number of UK-based energy businesses successfully securing European patents.
Andrew Kerr Harper Macleod has boosted its real estate team with the arrival of a new associate to its Inverness office.
A housing association tenant whose application to purchase her home under “right to buy” legislation was refused has had her appeal against the decision dismissed. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a ruling of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland to the effect that the application was
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Gary Donaldson Gary Donaldson explains the art of searching the Register of Inhibitions.
Graham Matthews The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has confirmed plans for an increase in its budget.
Maree Todd Proposals which would require all sports coaches working with children and other vulnerable groups to undergo mandatory disclosure checks have been outlined.
A solicitor advocates group has criticised a Faculty of Advocates response to a review of legal services, saying it “demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the relevant rules which apply to solicitors and the additional rules which apply to solicitor advocates”; that the Faculty’s prop
