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Newly released official data suggests that demand for legal aid support is no longer able to be met by the shrinking pool of solicitors working in the scheme. The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) 2023-24 annual report has been released, showing that funding for legal aid continues to trail inflation,

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Alice Leggat as a director of the board. Alice Leggat, a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales, is head of legal at SSE Thermal, a key business of SSE plc, where she advises on all manner of commercial and construction law issues

A sheriff principal has ruled that the spouse of an executor who occupied a home subject to a decree of ejection could not claim to be an “entitled resident” under sections 24C and 24D of the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 and thus obtain recall of a sheriff’s d

Pinsent Masons Vario has announced the appointment of Gary Gray as the first legal director of its Company Secretarial (CoSec) team. He joins Vario in Edinburgh after 18 years with Burness Paull, the last eight of which he spent as the firm’s head of governance and company secretarial.

Blackadders LLP has moved into its new office space in the heart of Dundee city centre.

Dundee Law School has established a new partnership with The College of Legal Practice for students taking the English LLB. The college will offer the university’s law students an opportunity to take their courses to prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE).

Court wait times could rise to more than three years for the most serious cases, Holyrood has been told. Malcolm Graham, chief executive of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), told MSPs that not raising funding in 2025-26 would be the same as removing 10 courts dealing with serious cas

Jesus was not opposed to the death penalty, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow told veterans of Russia's illegal war on Ukraine that Christ had "suffered an undeserved execution" but never condemned executions altogether, Novaya Gazeta reports.

Tony Lenehan KC remains the top earner of legal aid fees, new figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board show. In 2023-24, Mr Lenehan's fees were £450,000, an increase of £50,000 on the previous year.

Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) must pay a former employee £70,000 and publicly apologise to her after she was constructively dismissed for her beliefs about gender. An employment tribunal had already ruled that the centre unlawfully discriminated against Roz Adams and that the management

The Times has published an obituary for lawyer Andrew Kerr, secretary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, who passed away on September 19 at the age of 84. "When Andrew Kerr, as a young lawyer, took on the task of acting as secretary to the still young Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1967, it was

Scullion LAW has expanded its family law team with the appointment of associate director Claire Thomas and paralegal Carly Russell.

Solicitor Morag McNeill has been appointed as chair of The Robertson Trust, the largest independent grant-making trust in Scotland. Ms McNeill will chair the board of trustees from the start of January 2025, steering the Trust's work as an independent funder whose mission is to prevent and reduce po