The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced today that it has agreed to accept the current application in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to proceed to stage 2 of its process, and will now conduct a full review of his conviction for the Lockerbie bombing in order to decide w
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Brexit minister Michael Russell (pictured) has reiterated the need for changes to the EU Withdrawal Bill to "protect devolution", following a meeting with the UK government in London. Mr Russell confirmed there are still options which would secure an agreement, with two solutions suggested to the go
A House of Lords sub-committee has called on the UK government to propose an effective system for dispute resolution and enforcement in respect of both the proposed EU withdrawal agreement and the future UK-EU relationship. In its report published today, Dispute resolution and enforcement after Brex
Plans to modernise the justice system south of the border will see about 6,500 courthouse and backroom jobs lost by 2022, The Guardian reports. The UK government launched a £1 billion programme to introduce online pleas and remote video hearings in 2016, with details emerging from a consultation ci
Via @LyonCourt: Roderick Macpherson, formerly Lyon Macer, was sworn in as Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary by the Lord Lyon.
Two sheriffs have been appointed as specialists to hear cases in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court. Sheriff Robert Fife and Sheriff Robert Weir QC have been designated by Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen QC, Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders, as specialists in actions of damages
Brodies' Bill Drummond, managing partner for the last 20 years, retired from the firm this week.
Burness Paull head of technology Callum Sinclair has won the leadership award at the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018. The event took place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow on Thursday 26 April.
Pictured: Emily Dunsmore (Corporate Fundraiser, SAMH) with members of Anderson Strathern's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.
A retired GP falsely accused by a “serial fantasist” of being involved in a paedophile ring has been told he will not be reimbursed £94,000 in legal costs he paid before the case collapsed, The Times reports. Dr Stephen Glascoe, 67, from Cardiff, spent most of his savings on his defence.
The Law Society of Scotland’s Council is proposing to increase the cost of solicitors’ practising certificate (PC) fee by 2.3 per cent. It is the first increase in the fee in nine years and will mean the PC costs 20 per cent less in real terms compared to 10 years ago, the Law Society said. Soli
The High Court in London has ruled that a coroner's "cab rank" policy of dealing with bodies on a first-come, first-served basis was unlawful, irrational and discriminatory. The protocol issued last October by Mary Hassell, senior coroner for inner north London, has now been struck down and quashed.
A solicitor advocates group has criticised a Faculty of Advocates response to a review of legal services, saying it “demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the relevant rules which apply to solicitors and the additional rules which apply to solicitor advocates”; that the Faculty’s prop
MSPs have granted final approval to the Social Security (Scotland) Bill which will pave the way for the Scottish government to make the first social security payments later this year. A stage 3 debate in the Scottish Parliament yesterday was followed by a unanimous vote in favour of establishing Sco
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of Sir Andrew McFarlane as president of the Family Division. He will take up the presidency after Sir James Munby retires in July this year. Sir Andrew was called to the bar in 1977 and took silk in 1998. He was appointed a Recorder in 1995, a Deput
