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Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC is to review the processes for handling complaints against the police and investigating serious incidents and alleged misconduct. The independent review, jointly commissioned by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson and Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, will as

Anderson Strathern has secured a series of client appointments during the first half of 2018, helping to increase year-on-year revenue at the firm. Revenue is up by eight per cent in the six months to 28th February 2018.

The Scottish Parliament has approved in principle a bill that aims to give local authorities and communities the opportunity to directly manage Scottish Crown Estate assets. The Scottish Crown Estate Bill will establish a framework for changes in the management of these assets to "deliver wider bene

An 84-year-old woman says she will be “forever grateful” to the Faculty of Advocates’ pro bono unit and a volunteer QC who helped her win a court case over damage to her tenement home. The ceiling in the woman’s living room partially collapsed and cracks appeared in other cei

The UK government has apologised for its role in a Libyan dissident's 2004 abduction, torture and rendition to Libya. In a letter, Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged that an MI6 tip-off allowed Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, to be detained by US forces in Thailand.

The Electoral Commission has slapped campaign group Leave.EU with a £70,000 fine for breaching electoral law in the 2016 EU referendum. The group's chief executive, Liz Bilney, has also been referred to the police in connection with potential criminal offences.

Andy Drane, partner at Davidson Chalmers, writes on new arrangements affect GPs and GP premises. In Scotland new General Medical Services and Section 17C Contracts for GPs came into force on 1st April 2018. These Contracts seek to implement the agreement reached between Scottish Government and the B

New research by Aberdein Considine has revealed that the vast majority of family firms in Scotland would give up control of the business if that was the only way for it to expand or grow. Three quarters (75 per cent) of family-run firms in Scotland would consider ceding control of the business in or

Stephen McGowan, head of licensing at TLT Solicitors, has warned the Scottish government to think carefully over proposals to change licensing laws to compel venues to arrange safe transportation home for staff. Mr McGowan told Scottish Licensed Trade News that licensing law "should not be used as a

A 62 -year-old woman who was the first juror to be prosecuted under the Bribery Act 2010, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Catherine Leahy served on a jury in a drug trafficking and money laundering trial which returned a not proven verdict in April 2016 following three days of deliberatio

Legislation passed yesterday intended to ensure repatriated powers from the EU go to Holyrood upon Brexit means a legal challenge is now “inevitable” unless Scottish ministers repeal the law, according to a constitutional expert. Professor Stephen Tiereny, vice dean of Edinburgh Law Scho

A new survey of English barristers has found they are even less satisfied with their working lives than NHS staff, the Law Society Gazette reports. The South Eastern Circuit and Criminal Bar Association (CBA) invited 2,000 members to complete surveys on quality of working life and the courts' flexib

Bermuda has become the first jurisdiction in the world to reverse the legalisation of same-sex marriage, The Guardian reports. Governor John Rankin has signed into law a bill which reverses the legalisation of same-sex marriage by Bermuda's Supreme Court last year.

A solicitor is looking for help with a new venture seeking to assist survivors of human trafficking, modern slavery, domestic-abuse and victims of ethnic, political and religious persecution. Jennifer Matthew, a senior solicitor in the dispute resolution team at MacRoberts in Edinburgh and vice-chai

In Friday's edition of SLN we reported on the case of KW v HMA in which defence counsel was referred to as "L Kennedy" in the official decision. The Supreme Courts have now amended the decision to indicate counsel's full name, which is Lewis K Kennedy – not to be confused with Laurence C Kennedy.