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Pupils from Clydebank High School are the first in Scotland to sit the National Progress Award (NPA) in legal studies in a school setting. The qualification is usually delivered as a college course, but pupils from the Clydebank received the course in partnership with the School of Law at the Univer

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 imposed a temporary halt on the use of statutory demands and winding up petitions where the tenant is unable to pay its bills because of coronavirus. As a result two uniquely Scottish remedies available to landlord creditors have come into the spotlig

A solicitor has been fined £10,000 after he failed to timeously raise and proceed with a divorce action on behalf of his client. Quinton Muir, 53, was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) after failing to carry out proceedings over

Fines collection rates are making consistent progress against the problems presented by the coronavirus crisis, the latest report from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service shows. The three-year collection rates for all fine/penalty types show percentage point increases for both value and number

Judges are seeking an investigation into the “discriminatory, unfair and unlawful” judicial appointment system amid claims of bullying and racism, The Times reports. The Judicial Support Network (JSN), which promotes diversity on the bench, is sending a request today to the Equality and

Litigation Capital Management (LCM) has agreed to back a £250 million negligence claim against KPMG for its audits of Carillion. The litigation funder said it would fund a High Court claim brought by the liquidator of the collapsed contractors entities.

An architecture student at Edinburgh University has won the Scottish Land Commission’s national student award for 2021. Final year student Harry Whitmore will use the £1,000 award to undertake research into urban development and the role of community arts organisations to focus and drive

Students who exploited a glitch in KFC's mobile app to obtain thousands of euros worth of free meals have been jailed in China. It began when one student, known only by his surname Xu, discovered he could obtain a free coupon and use it an unlimited number of times.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Pinsent Masons has appointed Glasgow-based corporate oil and gas specialist Rosalie Chadwick as global head of oil and gas. With a 20-year track record in leading multi-million-pound mergers and acquisitions and capital markets deals in the UKCS and across international energy hubs, Ms Chadwick will

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has granted an increased award of expenses to a group of 27 religious leaders who successfully challenged the Scottish Ministers’ decision to close places of worship in Scotland from late December 2020 to March 20

The Lord Justice General, Lord Carloway has appointed Sheriff Iain Fleming of the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin to become the new sheriff member on the Scottish Sentencing Council. Sheriff Fleming was appointed as a part-time sheriff in 2005 and as a full-time sheriff in 2014, following a c

​A damning review of the legality of moving patients from hospitals to care homes in Scotland at the height of the pandemic has raised significant concerns about the actions of the Scottish government. The Mental Welfare Commission studied 457 individual moves - representing around 10 per cent of

Advocate Niall McCluskey has raised concerns over lockdown restrictions, questioning whether current measures are proportionate. Speaking to STV News, he said: “People who are in Glasgow at the moment can’t travel to a level two area so they’re actually worse off than when everyone

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