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The Supreme Court will share photos of its first ever sitting outside London as it joins picture-sharing social media app Instagram this week. The court will start to share images from today via @uksupremecourt or as it prepares to hear three appeals in Edinburgh’s City Chambers over the course of

The Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) has launched a new interactive case study resource on its website. The new resource presents an interactive scenario, following the court case of “Paul”, who has robbed a shop. As web users go through the case, they decide what happens next and choose what s

The Supreme Court will rule next week on a challenge to the Secretary of State for Health over his failure to make abortion available on the NHS in England to women from Northern Ireland. Judgment in R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) will be

Research has found only a small number of barristers want to change their business model or the way they receive instructions. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published a report on the provision of legal services by barristers, based on an online survey conducted in September-October 2016.

Details of the planned Great Repeal Bill have been published a day after Article 50 was triggered. Brexit Secretary David Davis said in a statement to MPs that the bill would allow businesses to continue operating after the UK has left the EU "knowing the rules have not changed overnight".

Up to 15 new bills in addition to the Great Repeal Bill could be required to deliver Brexit, research by a think tank has found. The authors of Legislating Brexit, a paper published today by the Institute for Government, warn that Brexit will place a huge burden on both Parliament and government dep

Figures released today by Registers of Scotland (RoS) show a 3.3 per cent year on year rise in property sales across Scotland, with 99,860 total sales. RoS’ Annual Market Review 2016 found that the last calendar year was a relatively stable period for the Scottish residential property market, comp

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has given SLN the following response to yesterday's report from the Law Society of Scotland calling for an "urgent overhaul" of the current legal aid system. Today’s Times article on the Law Society of Scotland’s report on the financial health of firms doing

Shepherd & Wedderburn’s commercial litigation team has secured a favourable ruling for their clients in The Trustees of the Johnston Press Pension Plan and others v. Sedgwick Noble Lowndes Limited and Mercer CSOH 21, a decision that confirms the common-sense approach applied by the Scottish co

The UK government will move ahead with plans to allow people accused of petty crimes to plead guilty and be sentenced online. A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) report has recommended the system, which is voluntary, be trialled with non-custodial sentences, including railway fare evasion.

The UK government must clearly and urgently articulate how it will ensure the widespread enforceability of UK court judgments in EU member states after Brexit, a new report argues. The impact of Brexit on the UK-based legal services sector, published by TheCityUK, stresses the importance of the Engl

The Supreme Court has now received formal notification of the UK government’s intention to appeal the High Court’s decision of 3 November in the case of R (on the application of Miller & Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Permission to appeal has been granted by

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has launched guidance to help newly qualified solicitors improve complaint handling. The guide, developed with the help of the Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association (SYLA), and based on the results of a questionnaire which the two organisations jointly

A solicitor has been fined £8,000 by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal after being found guilty of professional misconduct in relation to the purchase of a property. The Tribunal found that Euan Maxwell Terras was guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his acting in the purcha

Police recorded a 41 per cent increase in hate crime incidents in the month after the UK's Brexit vote, according to new UK government figures. A statistical bulletin from the Home Office reports there were 5,468 offences recorded in July 2016 compared to 3,886 offences in July 2015.