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Colin Soulsby has joined Aberdein Considine's Lender Services Practice Group (LSPG). Mr Soulsby has left his senior role with the Royal Bank of Scotland to join the firm in a newly-created relationship management role.

The Joint Standing Committee for Legal Education in Scotland (JSC) is looking for a lay representative. The JSC is a consultative body comprised of representatives drawn from the main branches of the legal profession and the universities, the aims and purposes of which are to act as a facilitator pr

The Scottish Land Commission has launched a programme of good practice support, backed by a new online resource to help promote good practice in relation to land rights and responsibilities. The commission has drawn lessons from the experience of the Tenant Farming Commissioner in seeking to influen

The minimum age for an application to obtain legal recognition of gender would be reduced from 18 to 16 and a new offence of false application would be created under proposed legislation. A draft bill reforming the current process for obtaining legal gender recognition has been published by the Scot

A vulnerable adult teenager whose life has been characterised by “chaos, abuse and neglect” has been made the subject of a court order to protect her welfare following an application by a Scottish local authority. A sheriff found that the 18-year-old, who opposed the application, was &ld

The Scottish Land Commission has called for further reform of land ownership on the centenary of the Land Settlement Act coming into force. The act aimed to resettle populations following the end of the First World War through the creation of smallholdings and crofts.

Parliamentary sovereignty is "no longer an accurate description of the constitution in Scotland or the UK", the Scottish government said this morning as it launched a demand for legislation to be passed transferring the power to hold a referendum to Holyrood. In a paper entitled Scotland’

New measures to be introduced aim to improve and maintain tenement flats across Scotland.

As part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) has been publishing twenty “20 year” blog posts on SPICe Spotlight over the course of 2019. This blog, by Sarah Harvie-Clark, senior researcher (civ

The Scottish government is hosting a series of engagement events across the country to seek views from the legal profession, third sector, and people with experience of the justice system, on the findings and any implications its jury research may have for future criminal justice reforms. The Scotti

BBC Radio 4 has profiled Lord Reed, the new President of the Supreme Court. Professor MacQueen, who studied alongside Lord Reed, says the pair were "swots".

Scotland should pioneer a public health response to harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has said. Responding to a report by an expert group commissioned by the Scottish government, Mr Yousaf said lessons would be taken from Scotland’s approa

The lack of progress by public authorities in tackling higher levels of unemployment and in-work poverty among ethnic minority communities will be the subject of a new inquiry by a Holyrood committee. The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee (EHRi) has issued a call

The Society of Local Authority Lawyers and Administrators (SOLAR) has appointed Vlad Valiente as its new president. Mr Valiente is the legal services manager and data protection officer for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the fourth largest fire service in the world. He is also a co-convener o

Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness opens today.