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Advocate General for Scotland Catherine Smith KC has welcomed a new panel of standing junior counsel to deal with UK government work arising in the Scottish courts. The appointments, which have been approved by her, are as follows:

Residential property prices in Scotland rose at the fastest rate since mid-2022 according to the results of the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and Scottish surveyors expect sales and prices to rise over the next three months. A net balance of 39 per

The Law Society of Scotland is inviting nominations for honorary membership for outstanding service for the public good by a Scottish solicitor. To mark its 75th anniversary, the Law Society has opened nominations for the award which is normally presented once every two years. The most recent recipi

Young academics have been awarded funding by the Scottish Universities Law Institute (SULI). SULI publishes Scots law texts for practitioners, academics and texts, and in recent years it has established early career fellowships (ECR) and post graduate research (PGR) scholarships to support research

Following a competitive recruitment exercise earlier this year, the Scottish Council of Law Reporting has announced the appointment of the following advocates to the law reporting panel for Session Cases: The Session Cases law report series contains all the key appellate decisions, civil and crimina

The use of framework legislation – in particular, framework bills – will be the focus of a new inquiry by the Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. The committee has launched a consultation to find out more about how framework bills impact on parliamentar

The Scottish Human Rights Commission said it is "deeply disappointed" that First Minister John Swinney has not delivered the new Human Rights Bill for Scotland in his Programme for Government. Professor Angela O’Hagan, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, said: “The proposed Hu

A second residential rehabilitation service to support women and their children through recovery from addiction and substance use has been opened in Falkirk. The Scottish government has invested £5.5 million to support the development of this Aberlour Childcare Trust facility, as well as a hou

Body-worn cameras will be not be rolled out across Police Scotland until March 2025, according to reports. David Kennedy, general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, told a fringe meeting at the SNP conference in Edinburgh over the weekend that officers had been told they would be waiting "

The closing date for entries for the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award 2024 has been extended to the end of September.

Scotland's leading crime-writing festival returns to Stirling this year with support from the Faculty of Advocates. Bloody Scotland established itself as the leading Scottish International Crime Writing Festival in 2012 with acclaimed writers Lin Anderson and Alex Gray at the helm, then joined by Cr

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to grant a six-month sist of an action raised against the Scottish ministers, the lord advocate, and the chief constable of Police Scotland arising from the death of a man in the custody of the Scottish Prison Service. The deceased, Alla

The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland will again be joint national sponsors of the Legal Walks, organised annually by the Access to Justice Foundation to raise money to fund much-needed pro bono services. The Scottish Legal Walks have gone from two in 2021 to five in 2024. This is

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a new report examining how victims of domestic abuse view sentencing in Scotland. The research, conducted by Glasgow Caledonian University, provides insights into the experiences and perspectives of victims. Researchers interviewed 24 women across Scotla

Scots lawyers have long made the case for overhauling the legal aid system but, with the Scottish government agreeing only a small number of fee uplifts since it commissioned a review of the sector close to a decade ago, many have come to believe that their pleas are destined to fall on deaf ears. W