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The Scotland Bill will give MSPs the power to deal with pavement parking after the UK government tabled amendments to the bill to clarify Holyrood’s competence in this area. Earlier this month the Local Government and Regeneration Committee hailed the legislation, introduced by Sandra White MSP.

5.45pm Thursday 25th February 2016 Chair: Sheriff Graeme Napier

The Faculty of Advocates’ MiniTrials project proved a hugely popular addition to the curriculum of Oxgangs Primary School in Edinburgh. Youngsters were given some expert advice in acting out a criminal trial when David Parratt, director of training and education, along with Julius Komorowski, advo

An Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled employees’ commission should be factored into holiday pay. British Gas is to appeal the ruling brought by former employee Joe Lock who complained he only received basic pay when he took annual leave.

Gillespie Macandrew has appointed two associates to its Glasgow office, as it continues to see its client base in the West of Scotland grow. Isobell Reid (pictured right), formerly with DWF LLP, is an experienced property and commercial lawyer and joins the litigation and dispute resolution team, wh

Prison reform campaigners are to send volunteers to Scottish courts amid concerns about how the system treats female prisoners, The Herald reports. The number of women in Scottish jails has doubled in the past decade.

Work has begun on hewing down a massive hedge which sparked a 30-year war between neighbours in the first use of the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013. Workers took chainsaws to the 40ft hedge in the village of Buchylvie near Stirling yesterday in work that is expected to take several days, The Herald

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie (pictured right) has this morning delivered a letter to the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC (pictured below), calling for an update on the investigation into the M9 crash and tragic deaths of John Yuill and Lamara Bell in July 2015. Following the cra

In a potentially landmark ruling, the English High Court has given judicial approval to the use of predictive coding in disclosure for High Court cases. Edward Spencer, an associate at Taylor Wessing, told the court that the deployment of predictive coding during disclosure would achieve significant

Legal experts have criticised the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service for reproducing offensive comments in a court report on its website. The comments came from a criminal appeal case involving a man who exchanged a number of “grossly offensive” and “indecent” jokes with a friend on a soc

The latest BDO FraudTrack report shows that the total value of reported fraud in Scotland during 2015 rose 80.9 per cent per cent to £18.164 million from £10.038m in 2014. Across the whole of the UK the latest FraudTrack report, which examines all cases of reported fraud cases over £50,000, found

GCHQ has won a legal case over its ability to hack suspects’ phones and computers after a tribunal ruled “equipment interference” was lawful. Seven internet providers as well as Privacy International challenged the practice, which is also called “computer network exploitation”.

The European Court of Human Rights(ECtHR) has unanimously ruled that the article 7 right of a juror convicted for contempt of court after she conducted research on the internet was not violated. Theodora Dallas complained that the common law offence of contempt of court had not been sufficiently cle

Once again the issue of the “not proven” verdict and its viability in Scots criminal law has been raised after MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee rejected a bill to abolish it. Scottish Legal News is now asking readers whether they think it is time for “not proven” to be consigned to the

Dundee University Law Society (DULS) yesterday held an event that saw four speakers discuss how their LLBs took them to careers beyond law firms. James Shaw, legislation and Europe team leader, from the Office of the Solicitor to the Scottish Parliament spoke about how, like many students, he was in