The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to embrace major changes to the way it administers legal complaints in a bid to avoid an above inflation hike in costs. The SLCC has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19. A proposed rise of up
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A petition seeking judicial review of the United Kingdom Government’s “position” on the revocability of a notice of intention to withdraw from the European Union in terms of Article 50.2 of the Treaty on European Union has been granted permission to proceed following an appeal. The Lord Ordina
Pupils from sixteen schools across Scotland have battled their way to this week's semi-finals of the Law Society of Scotland’s Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament.
Maggie Moodie Morton Fraser has introduced a formal 'agile working' policy as part of a wider focus on employee wellbeing and organisational flexibility.
Philippa Cunniff On International Women’s Day 2018, Philippa Cunniff, partner and head of family law at Gilson Gray LLP, shares her experiences as a woman in the legal profession.
Difficulties could be created if Scotland alone in the UK forges ahead with a new system for legal recognition of acquired gender, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government is looking to introduce a self-declaration system for legal gender recognition, removing the need for app
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has set out a revised approach to improve transparency standards for clients of the bar.
Westminster's Women and Equalities Committee has called for written submissions to its inquiry on sexual harassment in the workplace. Part of its remit will be to determine if non-disclosure agreements are being "abused by legal experts and employers to cover up wrongdoing", committee chair Maria Mi
A third of partners in law firms are women while more than half of all partners were educated at state schools, The Brief reports. Data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority shows that the profession is balancing at senior levels across 9,000 law firms, .
Eric Robertson The programme for Tumbling Lassie Seminar 3 is being finalised, with a line-up of expert speakers to give insight into disrupting people trafficking networks.
Two asylum seekers who claimed that the reduction in financial support payable to them was “unlawful” have had their legal challenge dismissed. The petitioners argued that the 30% cut in asylum support available to them in respect of themselves and their dependent children breached EU law and vi
Campbell Newell International intellectual property (IP) firm Marks & Clerk has been identified as a top ranking firm for trade mark prosecution in Scotland.
A 14-year-old boy who raped and sexual assaulted two younger girls has had his sentence of six years’ detention cut following an appeal after judges ruled that the custodial term imposed was “excessive”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary imposed a sentence of three years and nin
Angela Grahame QC The lack of legal aid for arbitration has been raised with MSPs by the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC.
Judith Robertson A new initiative launched today aims to help Scotland’s public authorities put human rights at the heart of their budget planning.
