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The Scottish government has made a conscious decision to deprive the legal aid system of funding. The number of lawyers able to service the scheme is dwindling. Wooed by COPFS or simply unwilling to be the sticking plaster in a broken system, they have left. As lawyers strike today, solicitor advoca

A former tenant of a property in Gourock, Inverclyde, has been awarded £1,500 by the First-tier Tribunal Housing and Property Chamber after it found she had been unlawfully evicted by her landlord, who claimed that his sister intended to live in the property. Charlotte Mills sought a wrongful

Thursday 3 June 2021, 7.30 – 8.30pm The Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship in Scotland is delighted to welcome Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness to an evening of questions and discussion.

Lawyers have availed themselves of the emergency coronavirus legislation to enable an expert witness to give evidence remotely amid an ongoing debate on whether evidence in High Court cases should be given remotely at all. At a trial in the High Court in Glasgow, the defendant was accused of as

Karen Stachura writes about the pros and cons of the virtual court system that has emerged over the past year. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our bas

The inquiry into undercover policing operations in England and Wales has referred the first suspected miscarriages of justice identified through its investigations to a dedicated panel set up by the Home Office. The case, involving 12 individuals, relates to an incident on 12 May 1972 when political

Mashal pictured with her grandfather, Col. Tariq Azam Khan, who inspired and encourages her humanitarian efforts. A Glasgow University law graduate currently undertaking the BPTC has received a prestigious award in recognition of her humanitarian work.

To mark the end of Pride Month, Beverley Addison, a senior solicitor in BTO’s family law team, takes us on a journey through the history of family law in Scotland for LGBTQ+ people. See part one here. The road to equality in marriage has been another long struggle for LGBTQ+ people. This inequ

Parking fines could be increased to as much as £120 under Scottish government proposals. A consultation has been launched on increasing the penalty charge notice (PCN) – imposed on drivers who park illegally.

The vast majority of responses to a Scottish government consultation support the pardoning of miners found guilty of offences in the 1984-85 strike. Eighty-seven per cent of responses supported pardoning them over breach of the peace and 86 per cent over breach of bail convictions.

A piece in the FT yesterday on the Lugano Convention was one of the first that has looked at the family law consequences of the UK no longer being a party to the Convention (which provides agreed jurisdictional rules in cross border cases for civil and commercial matters, and provides for recogniti

Tara Davison considers whether a notice is valid when served on a party who is specified in the contract, but who no longer holds office and lacks authority to act. In the recent case Scottish case of Michael Wilson v Graeme W Cheyne (Builders) Ltd [2021] ScotSAC Civ (03 August 2021) the Sheriff App

Members of Edinburgh Law School's Understanding Inequalities project have published two new high profile reports. The first report, authored by Professor Susan McVie, details data on the number of charges reported by Police Scotland under the Coronavirus Regulations between March 2020 and June 2021

The independent inquiry investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus (QEUH) in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (RHCYP/DCN) in Edinburgh has today began hearing from affected patients and fa

The Scottish Land Commission is continuing its calendar of online public meetings and the next will cover Orkney.  The commission is holding an informal public meeting online to give residents of Orkney the opportunity to find out more about land reform and the role of land in creating a succes