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National Health Service solicitor Susan Murray has begun her tenure as president of the Law Society of Scotland, bringing her in-house perspective and expertise to the role. Ms Murray – who has worked for the NHS for nearly 40 years and is currently a senior solicitor in the litigation departm

An appeal by Glasgow City Council against a motorist’s successful challenge of penalty charge notice imposed on him for driving a non-compliant vehicle within the city’s Low Emission Zone has been refused after the Upper Tribunal found it was not validly served. Allan Hamilton was sent a

Pictured (L-R): Paul O'Kane, Evelyn Tweed, Lord Carloway, Marie McNair and Annie Wells The Lord President, Lord Carloway, has stressed the importance of the separation of powers to a visiting committee of MSPs from Holyrood.

Scotland could turn its vision for ethical regulatory principles into a competitive advantage, writes ​Chris Elwell-Sutton. According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report, AI could boost the UK’s uninspiring productivity by up to 1.5 per cent annually. Analysts estimate t

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by stated case against a sheriff’s decision to evict a debtor from her family home and give a trustee in bankruptcy the authority to sell the property in a long-running sequestration dispute. Gordon Maclure, an insolvency practitioner appointed tr

The occupiers under a liferent of a property in Stranraer have won an appeal against their eviction from the property on the basis that the sheriff erred in his construction of the terms of the occupancy agreement. An action for recovery of possession of the property occupied by Neil Farroll and his

Ken Dalling, former president of the Law Society of Scotland, has been elected to serve as the new head of the UK delegation to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Mr Dalling won the position with a clear majority of UK delegates voting for him to take up the reins from his prede

The Court of Session has granted permission to proceed in a judicial review for a client of Govan Law Centre's in Torry, Aberdeen, challenging the decision by Aberdeen City Council (ACC) to possibly industrialise St. Fittick’s Park as part of its Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) plan for the city.

A woman charged with causing alarm to a couple and their 15-year-old son by watching and filming them in their home has had three Bills of Advocation raised after delays in starting the trial diet refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. In three complaints raised by the procurator fiscal in Falkirk aga

A lord ordinary has ruled that Glasgow City Council had failed to adequately consult on changes to its social care charging policy but declined to order reduction of the policy as sought by a petitioner challenging an increase in the weekly charge levied on him for services. BB, a 40-year-old disabl

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has welcomed Liam Ewing KC, Lorraine Glancy KC, John Keenan KC and Paul Harvey to the principal Crown counsel team. The team is responsible for leading advocate deputes in the prosecution of serious crime. The four lawyers are joining as assistant principal Crown counse

An insurer which was ordered to pay £1,250 to a man involved in a collision between his van and a car in Edinburgh has had an appeal against the order refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance Co Ltd argued that, after expert medical evidence led by pursue

A personal injury sheriff has ruled that a pursuer in a road traffic accident claim had, along with the driver of the other vehicle, attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud and thus was not entitled to reparations. Pursuer Arif Khan raised the action against Mohammad Arshad and his insurer, AXA I

A lord ordinary has declined to make an order returning an eight-year-old girl to her mother in Russia after she petitioned the court for an order under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction after her father declined to return her. Petitioner TS, a national of Kazakhstan who resided in Chechnya in

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