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Kenneth Shand Scottish legal figures have given their thoughts on the possibility and implications of Scotland retaining access to the single market.

The Scottish Government has been found in contempt of court again after prison officers breached, for a second time, an undertaking not to open an inmate’s letters. A judge in the Court of Session described the second breach by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) as an “affront to the authority of

Lord Pentland The Scottish Law Commission will now publish discussion papers and reports on its website only.

In a response to the report of the independent planning review panel, the Scottish government has laid out a programme of action paving the way for a new Planning Bill. Building on the momentum that gathered during the work of the independent planning review panel, the government has identified 10 i

Robin McGill has been appointed a member of the Scottish Police Authority Board. Mr McGill worked across the BP Group for 30 years in engineering, operations and international business leadership roles ultimately becoming director of the BP Grangemouth Refining and Petrochemicals complex and Forties

Regulations laid at Westminster today will begin the transfer of powers to enable the Scottish Parliament to start legislating on social security and employability. The powers will include the ability to implement new arrangements to support people in receipt of benefits to be devolved, and the long

Professor Lorraine Radford The cost of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry which has become mired in controversy since its launch last year has already reached £1.8 million.

Calum Steele Police Scotland is in such dire financial straits that it is sending officers to charity shops to source equipment that can be bought for a couple of pounds in most supermarkets, according to the Scottish Police Federation (SPF).

The Scottish Ministers have successfully challenged a judge’s decision to reduce a planning consent granted for the development of a new wind farm near Fort Augustus. Appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session overturned a decision of the Lord Ordinary, who allowed a petition for jud

The Scottish government has issued a consultation on raising fees in the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, the Sheriff Appeal Court, the Sheriff Court, the Sheriff Personal Injury Court, and the Justice of the Peace Court. Court fees are a major source of income for the Scottish Courts

The Christian Institute and others’ appeal against the Scottish government’s Named Person scheme has been unanimously allowed by judges in the Supreme Court on the basis the information sharing provisions in Part 4 are incompatible with Article 8 ECHR — meaning the legislation will not be brou

Lord Stewart Scottish ministers are to appeal against a legal judgment that has blocked completion of a wind farm off the east coast.

Fergus Ewing A consultation on proposals to amend legislation so that specified forms of electrofishing would be permitted for catching razor clams has been launched.

Scottish ministers failed to give "proper, adequate and intelligible reasons" for granting plans to build a railfreight super-hub on greenbelt land. Judges in the Court of Session said ministers had "largely ignored" concerns their own independent reporter brought to them in relation to the proposed

John Swinney