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No prosecutions have been brought in relation to around 300,000 households who refused to complete Scotland's census despite repeated warnings. In June, census authorities wrote to all households who had refused to complete the census to "advise them that they are at risk of being referred for poten

Terra Firma Chambers will again provide sponsorship for the UKELA (United Kingdom Environmental Law Association) Annual Scottish Conference which will be held at the Apex Hotel Waterloo, Edinburgh on Thursday 6th October 2022. This year’s conference, the first since 2019, features a

A global law firm’s opportunity to find out about prospective careers in the world of immigration is open for Scottish applications. Fragomen’s UK Immigration School is aimed at senior school pupils, university students and graduates.

Four lawyers have stepped down from the Scottish Covid inquiry. The departures follow that of Lady Poole, the inquiry chair, who announced she was leaving the inquiry on Monday.

On October 11, 2022, the Court of Session found against the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), not for the first time. Yet the cost of this latest litigation will be borne not by its lay members but by the lawyers so inadequately represented by it, writes Andrew Stevenson. The SLCC is a cr

Brandon Malone has stepped down as chairman of the Scottish Arbitration centre, passing the chairmanship to Lord Glennie, who was vice chairman of the centre. During his time in the role, Mr Malone spearheaded an energy arbitration project with CEPMLP at the University of Dundee. He was also appoint

A suspended part-time sheriff has been unsuccessful in a challenge of the decision of the Scottish Ministers to continue funding his legal representation for a review of a decision by a tribunal reporting on his fitness to practice. Petitioner John Halley was suspended from office after comments he

Abuse victims are turning their back on a Scottish government redress scheme amid a catalogue of delays, failures and broken promises, Digby Brown has said. Redress Scotland, which launched a year ago, was designed to provide one-off payments of between £10,000 to £100,000 as well as non

The Scottish government's indyref2 bill is ultra vires of the Scotland Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A group of 29 individuals and organisations have written to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Alsalem, to welcome her intervention on the Scottish government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

A solicitor who swindled American investors out of $16 million (£13m) while acting for them in the purchase of the iconic Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, where Queen Victoria spent her honeymoon, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail – a term believed to be a new record for a lawyer guil

A challenge to the legislative competence of part of Scottish legislation aimed at reducing a perceived imbalance in the relationship between the landlords of “tied pubs” and their tenants has been refused by a Lord Ordinary in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Petitioners Greene

Lindsays has reported a year-on-year increase in the average price of properties it has sold, with the average price in Edinburgh reaching £325,000. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty and political turmoil, the firm believes market appetite remains steady and notes that predictions of price

Pinsent Masons' Scottish corporate team looks back on 2022, having advised on deals worth billions of pounds in various sectors, and discusses its outlook for the year ahead. The stand-out deal in the last 12 months was Ithaca Energy’s £2.5 billion listing on the main London Stock Exchan

Following the BBC Disclosure programme investigating how a Scottish lawyer now convicted on historic child abuse charges ‘hid’ his crimes for decades, the Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland has urged the Scottish government to reform the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act