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Tenants and landlords alike may be interested in the Leases (Automatic Continuation etc.) (Scotland) Bill, introduced to the Scottish Parliament last month, write Donna Strong and David Bryden. The aim of this proposed new legislation is to "improve, simplify and update" aspects of the law of commer

New guidance that aims to improve equal participation and representation of women in parliaments around the world has been published by the Scottish Parliament. The development of Gender Sensitising Parliaments: A Practical Guide was led by Professor Sarah Childs, personal chair of politics and gend

A new SLCC board member has been appointed. 

Alyson Forbes has been appointed as a legal member to the board of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). Miss Forbes was a procurator fiscal depute in Crown Office for 22 years. She worked in both the High Court and Appeals Units in the Crown Office.

A Glasgow sheriff has ruled that a housing co-operative could evict a Scottish secure tenant after it discovered that she had allowed drug dealers to use her property to store controlled substances in return for the cancellation of a debt. Drumchapel Housing Co-Operative Ltd raised an action for rem

Legislation aiming to simplify the funding system for learners at college and university and apprentices in Scotland has been published. The Scottish government has introduced the Tertiary Education and Training Bill at Holyrood, which is expected to examine it over the course of this year. 

First Minister John Swinney has firmly ruled out a proposed ban on cats. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWG) has suggested strict new measures on outdoor cats because of their "significant impact on wildlife populations", the BBC reports.

I read with interest the article on the Scottish Law Agents Society survey run by Darren Murdoch. I will not be responding as I have not been in practice for almost 30 years – an era when regulation was a very different thing – and came off the roll over a decade ago. No locus? No skin i

The Scottish Legal Aid Board's Client Legal Services (CLS) Directorate has welcomed three trainee solicitors who will be the first to undertake a new traineeship in both civil and criminal law. The trio, Michael Addley, Taylor May and Rebecca Tennant, join Christina Cummings, who began her traineesh

The installation of Scotland’s new lord president is to be livestreamed from the Court of Session.  Lord Pentland will be sworn in as head of the Scottish judiciary on Monday, with the ceremony available to watch live on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website from 10am.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has found that people with learning disabilities and autistic people are still being held in institutions in breach of their human rights, with no evidence of a human rights based approach to end this practice. A new report from the human rights watchdog identifi

Immediate action will be taken to address systemic failures in relation to deaths in prison custody, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has pledged. The Scottish government said it accepts Sheriff Collins’ fatal accident inquiry finding that the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay were p

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a report on a review of the operation of the Sentencing young people guideline during its first year in force.  The guideline, which was approved by the High Court in November 2021, has applied since 26 January 2022 to the sentencing of young people

A sheriff has determined that the deaths of two young people in a young offenders institution in Falkirk could have been avoided if reasonable precautions had been taken, and made 25 recommendations to improve the Scottish Prison Service. Katie Allan and William Brown, aged 21 and 16 respectively, b