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Thursday 17 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) are delighted to host a team from the UK Supreme Court who will discuss what life is like working as a judicial assistant.

Jacqui Taylor has been assigned temporary president of the newly created Local Taxation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. The appointment is for three years and is made by the president of the Scottish Tribunals, Lord Woolman.

Thursday 24 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association is collaborating with Harper Macleod LLP to host ‘Spotlight on...Decarbonisation and Natural Capital’.

The Scottish legal system can be a mystery to English lawyers and there are plenty aspects of Scots law which are (understandably) entirely alien to our friends south of the border. One area of practice on which Scots and English lawyers can agree is the principles applicable to the interpretation o

Scotland's justice sector is to be "transformed", the Scottish government has announced. Its new strategy will ensure sure "victims' voices are heard" and will place women and children "at the heart of service delivery" in addition to reassessing the role that prisons and the use of imprisonment sho

New legislation has been published to ensure all nationals of Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain can stand as candidates in Scottish local government elections. Following changes made in 2020, all nationals from these countries can already vote in local elections and those with settled status or

Edinburgh University students Rebecca Millar and Matthew McPherson have won the Elaine Tyre Client Consultation Competition, the Scottish final of the International Client Consultation Competition, which is hosted by Edinburgh Law School. The pair beat teams from four other diploma in professional l

More than 100 lawyers as well as 40 legal aid firms have quit the legal aid scheme, new figures show. A freedom of information request made by the Scottish Liberal Democrats indicates that the number of lawyers on the duty solicitor scheme fell from 753 in 2019 to 643 last year.

The fine collection rate is continuing to recover, the latest Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service quarterly fines report shows. The three-year collection rates for all fine/penalty types show improvement for both value and number when the figures as at 18 January 2022 are compared with 18 October

Representatives from across Scotland’s third sector have condemned the UK government’s Nationality and Borders Bill. MSPs have been asked to withhold the consent of the Scottish Parliament to the proposed legislation in a statement signed by over 60 organisations.

Solicitors from the Aberdeen Bar Association have warned that the north-east’s most vulnerable people will suffer from the Scottish government's refusal to adequately fund Scotland's legal aid system. Defence lawyers in the city and Aberdeenshire have withdrawn from the duty scheme in protest

A Lord Ordinary has determined that guidance issued by the National Records of Scotland on answering a question in the 2022 Scottish census is legally valid after it was challenged by an organisation that campaigns for biological sex-based rights of women and girls in the UK. It was contended by Fai

The level of cases concluded in Scotland's courts is 77 per cent of the average pre-Covid level, new figures show. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published its latest monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in the courts.

A strategy to combat serious organised crime has been updated. The new Serious Organised Crime Taskforce Strategy will see "better collaboration" across all sectors, the Scottish government said.

Protecting foxes, hares and other wild mammals from being chased and killed by packs of dogs is the purpose of the Scottish government’s new Hunting with Dogs Bill. The bill will replace existing legislation in this area, making the law clearer and closing loopholes.