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Since I previously wrote about the damaging delay to Scottish gender recognition reform caused by Westminster vetoing Holyrood’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, there have been two further disquieting developments that I feel compelled to respond to, as a lawyer working to uphold th

The new chair of the Scottish Land Court has been installed at a ceremony in George House, Edinburgh. Euan Duthie KC took up the role on 9 January following the retirement of former chair Lord Minginish. Lord Duthie was also appointed as president of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

A Guinean football player who sought a UK visa in order to undergo trials with professional clubs in Scotland has lost a judicial review case against the Home Secretary’s latest decision to refuse his application. Mohammed Camara, who had been trying to obtain a UK visa since he was 18, argued

The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on

Scottish Land & Estates has announced the appointment of Jackie McCreery as in-house counsel. She was formerly director of policy & parliamentary affairs at Scottish Land & Estates and its predecessor body SRPBA until 2011 and returns to advise on all aspects of existing and emergin

Three new members have been appointed to the Scottish Civil Justice Council for a three-year term.

As implementation of the Deposit Returns Scheme (DRS) moves forward and the August deadline approaches, the Scottish government must address business' concerns, bring clarity over logistical issues, and listen to the experience of industry before pushing forward, writes Laura Tainsh. The Scottish go

The former director of Midas Financial Solutions has been ordered to hand over only £814.35 despite having made more than £13 million from his Ponzi scheme. Scottish businessman Alistair Greig, 69, originally from Cairnbulg in Aberdeenshire, who is currently serving a 10-year prison

A legal job can be stressful in many ways at the best of times. Allan Ker WS, however, had a very difficult time that is unlikely to have been matched by many others in the profession although some of his contemporaries would doubtless understand the difficulties. Allan Ebenezer Ker was born in Edin

Deputy chief constable Malcolm Graham has been appointed as the constable member of the Scottish Sentencing Council. DCC Graham, who replaces DCC Will Kerr OBE, joined Lothian and Borders Police in 1995. He headed up the force’s criminal investigation department and was ACC for major crime and

Scotland’s legal sector has welcomed 80 new solicitors to the profession, at a record-breaking admissions ceremony in Edinburgh.

Almost one in 10 sheriffs and judges say they have been bullied in the past two years, according to a survey. The 2022 UK Judicial Attitude Survey, conducted by the UCL Judicial Institute on behalf of senior judges, found that eight per cent of respondents claimed they had been bullied by politician

Lady Wise has been assigned by the Lord President, Lord Carloway, to be the next president of the Scottish Tribunals. The current president of the Scottish Tribunals, Lord Woolman will step down from the role on 30 April, before his upcoming retirement in May this year.

The average price of a Scottish property in February 2023 was £180,287, an increase of one per cent on February 2022, the latest provisional statistics from the UK HPI show. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland decreased by 2.6 per cent between January 2023 and February

Yesterday the Scottish government released the text of its petition seeking judicial review of the UK government’s use of a s.35 Order to prevent the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from receiving Royal Assent. Much of what is contained therein has been mooted in commentary on the s.