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A sheriff has ordered a company and its sole director to pay the excess monies from the sale of commercial premises to satisfy a secured debt to the premises’ original owner after he raised an action for accounting and payment seeking to enforce an agreement he had with them regarding the sale

Legislative proposals to help restore nature and protect biodiversity in Scotland have been introduced to Parliament. The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, which will now be considered by MSPs, would place a duty on ministers to set legally-binding nature restoration targets and aims to modernise

A new independent commission has been established to review sentencing and penal policy and identify the most effective ways to address offending behaviour to help reduce crime and lower the number of victims. The Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission will be chaired by Martyn Evans, former chair o

Elise Marshall considers a recent case from Singapore and how it might have been affected by AI.  The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) can be used to refer to advanced computer systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence, such as problem-solving, pattern recognition,

Graham Johnston and Elizabeth McFarlane reflect on 25 years of the Family Court in Glasgow.  The introduction of divorce into the Sheriff Court in 1984 had a dramatic effect on the number of ordinary civil cases in the court. The sudden inflow of divorce cases (something in the region of 13,000

As AI develops further and is used more and more by professionals, there are questions over the extent of its use and if it can entirely replace some roles, or if it should instead be limited to assisting human expertise only. One such example of this is mediation, writes Nicole Kelly. Mediation is

Reforms to legal aid have been set out to make the system simpler and easier for both solicitors and those who need legal assistance – along with longer-term proposals for funding and improving the delivery of services. Actions set out in a discussion paper aim to simplify the funding system a

A solicitor who was granted a conditional practising certificate after applying to be restored to the roll of solicitors has lost a Court of Session challenge against the imposition of the condition by the Practising Sub-Committee of the Law Society of Scotland. Patrick McAuley, whose name was remov

School pupils gathered in Parliament Hall recently for the finals of the Young Speakers Scotland’s Schools Mace Debating Competition, hosted by the Faculty of Advocates. Young Speakers Scotland is an educational charity that uses debating and public speaking to help young people realise their

Choices, choices, always choices. On February 25th it was between an event in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall marking the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, or a ‘Gray Day’ in Glasgow’s Oran Mohr marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Scotland&r

Aberdein Considine has appointed Nicola Watson as partner in its family law team. Joining from Livingstone Brown, where she was a senior associate, and with 10-plus years’ experience in family law, she will be based in Aberdein Considine’s Glasgow offices.

Lawyers have threatened to boycott the Scottish government's new swifter justice scheme unless legal aid fees are increased. Members of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) will not take part in summary cases heard as part of the new Summary Case Management (SCM) initiative.

A commercial judge has determined that a reporter instructed to provide an opinion on the reasonableness and cost of repairs to an office building in Edinburgh following the end of a commercial lease had not fully discharged his remit and issued directions for further investigations. Rutland Court R

Police Scotland’s investigation of historical and unresolved murders, their response to allegations of child abuse, and their policing of serious and organised crime groups are among topics HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) has selected for review in its three-year inspection

A UN judge has been convicted in England of forcing a woman to work as a slave. Judge Lydia Mugambe was initially appointed to the judicial roster of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in May 2023 – three months after her arrest in Oxford, where she was stud