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Friday 26 January 2018, 9.30am - 1.30pm

Simon Allison Blackadders’ employment team has been nominated for the “Innovation in Practice Award” at the Scottish Legal Awards 2018.

The judge appointed to preside in the Kerry District over the next few weeks had an embarrassing moment on his first morning in court after he mistook nearby church bells for a mobile phone ringing. Judge David Waters is filling in for Judge James O'Connor, who is ill.

The Scottish government has begun preparations to introduce an EU Continuity Bill to prepare Scotland’s laws for Brexit after UK government legislation was described as being “incompatible with the devolution settlement” by a cross-party Holyrood committee. The Scottish government has an oblig

Pictured (L-R): Lorna Goodfellow, Craig Nicol and Murray Etherington

Craig Bradshaw Craig Bradshaw gives his top 10 tips for reviewing design responsibility in construction contracts.

David Martyn Former employees of the defunct construction company Land Engineering Scotland have won a quarter million pound compensation award after they were made redundant last year with less than a day’s notice.

The Bar of Ireland has launched a new initiative to promote Ireland as a world-leading centre of legal services after Brexit.

Roseanna Cunningham Plans to introduce legislation to ban the manufacture and sale of plastic stemmed cotton buds have been announced by Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham.

The term "spouse" includes a spouse of the same sex for the purposes of European free movement, even in member states whose laws do not provide for same-sex marriage, according to Advocate General Melchior Wathelet. Although member states are free to authorise marriage between persons of the same se

Human rights organisation Reprieve has called for all branches of the US government to uphold fundamental values enshrined in US law by ending the practice of detention without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp on the 16th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening. On 11 January 200

The Crown has successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to refuse an attempt by prosecutors to include evidence of alleged sexual offences which were previously held to be “time-barred” in a docket in an indictment libelling other sex crimes. In a landmark ruling, the Appeal Court of th

The largest ever action against solicitors in Scottish legal history has been settled out of court, with Aberdeen entrepreneur Bob Kidd accepting a "substantial" sum as part of a confidential agreement with Burness Paull whom he was suing for £160 million. The settlement was announced in the Court

Scotland could be operating an illegal regime of charging litigants court fees at a level designed to fund the civil justice system, the Faculty of Advocates has warned. The Scottish government is consulting on proposals to increase court fees over the next three years.

Scottish Legal News welcomes today's editorial in The Herald, which we reproduce in full below. The alarm bells have been ringing in Scotland’s legal aid service for years now, but it looks like we may finally have reached breaking point.