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Balfour and Manson has retained of its second-year trainee solicitors who qualify this week. Taylor Henry, Klaudia Wasilewska and Emily Deans become newly qualified solicitors today after a challenging traineeship dominated by the pandemic,

A man who was convicted of attacking his non-binary partner cannot enrol in a domestic abuse rehabilitation scheme because it is for heterosexual couples only. The Caledonian system was established in 2009 as part of an approach to dealing with domestic abuse and is operated by Sacro.

The pandemic has forced changes to almost every aspect of our lives. In WPH Developments Limited v Young & Gault LLP (in liquidation) 2021 CSIH 39, the Court of Session, however, confirmed one thing which won’t change: the law on prescription. Jamie Robb examines the case. The facts

Much of Scotland's "already strained" justice system will grind to a halt later this year because of the demand placed on resources by the COP26 in Glasgow – the biggest and most complex event ever held in Scotland. The conference, hosted by the UK government, will take place at the SEC i

Scotland’s new law officers have been sworn in at a ceremony at the Court of Session. The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, and Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris QC, were nominated by the First Minister and then unanimously approved for appointment by the Scottish Parliament last we

Dear Editor, The Justice Secretary Keith Brown has announced an intention to create a Register of Interests for members of the judiciary. The Lord President has expressed concerns, but these have been dismissed. His principal concern is that a requirement to register interest might deter potential c

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

A woman who impersonated her teenage daughter to sit through an entire day of school has been arrested. Casey Garcia, 30, said she infiltrated her 13-year-old daughter's middle school in Texas to make a point about school security.

When Nicola Rylatt lost her husband Chris to suicide in 2017 it made her reassess her work priorities. The couple had been married for a year and, having begun her career as an asylum and immigration lawyer before moving to Swiss-based NGO Shelter Centre, Ms Rylatt was working in the Geneva office o

The law of damages for unlawful eviction in Scotland fails victims and does little to deter landlords. It requires urgent reform, write Rebecca Morton, Shaun McPhee and Ben Christman of the Legal Services Agency. Eviction without a court order is both a crime and a civil wrong in Scotland, yet victi

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 imposed a temporary halt on the use of statutory demands and winding up petitions where the tenant is unable to pay its bills because of coronavirus. As a result two uniquely Scottish remedies available to landlord creditors have come into the spotlig

Two men in North Carolina who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl more than three decades ago have received a $75 million payout, believed to be the largest in US history. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who are intellectually disabled half-brothers, spent decades on deat

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

The Scottish courts should make greater use of video-link technology to reduce the number of people in custody being brought to court for short procedural appearances, prison inspectors have said. In a new report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) said there had been an increase in cou

The civil justice system also has its part to play in tackling the climate emergency, writes John Sturrock QC. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is at record levels, higher than for 3 million years. According to the former Governor of the Bank of England, and now UN special envoy on climate action