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Law enforcement agencies probing suspected financial crimes have the right to additional time when necessary to properly investigate, a Scottish court has ruled. The landmark decision handed down by the Sheriff Appeal Court underlines the emphasis placed by courts on “allowing law enforcement

Yesterday marked 20 years since the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FoISA) was passed by MSPs. The vision for the new law was set out in An Open Scotland, the 1999 Scottish Executive consultation where the then deputy first minister, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, said: “At the heart

The proportion of summary criminal cases going from caution to verdict within 26 weeks reached a new low in the first three months of this year. The latest criminal justice monitoring data from the Scottish government show that, in January, the figure was 44 per cent; in February it was 40 per cent

Ryan Macready, senior solicitor at Macdonald Henderson, discusses the intricacies of buying and selling accountancy practices. The majority of Scottish accountancy firms are owner-managed independent general practices, with a local client base. When approaching retirement age, these owner-managers w

A solicitor has detailed the significant volume of work involved in domestic abuse cases following an announcement by defence lawyers that they are boycotting them. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said this week that is members would no longer accept new instructions in summary cases

The Scottish government’s new Strategy for Economic Transformation for the next decade has been drawn up. The strategy focuses on the three areas of promoting investment, start-up business ventures and new green industries, and its goal is to see the Scottish economy outperform economic growth

Police Scotland is facing a shortage of senior officers after a spike in people applying to leave the single force. Retirement rates for this year are already 70 per cent higher than normal, according to the Scottish Police Federation, while litigation in England over pensions could prompt a surge i

Human rights laws are an impediment to the Scottish government's ability to ban protests outside of abortion clinics, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Ms Sturgeon said progress was being stalled on introducing a 150m buffer zone outside clinics to keep keep anti-abortion campaigners away from women using t

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published three short animated videos about its sentencing young people guideline. Each video focuses on one of the guideline’s key themes: The council premiered the videos at a webinar it held jointly with the Children and Young People’s Centre for Ju

The role that public participation can play in ensuring more people from across Scotland can have a say in the work of the Scottish Parliament is to be investigated by MSPs. The Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee has issued a call for views to organisations and a survey to people a

The Lawscot Foundation will be strengthening its support to future bursary recipients, thanks to a sponsorship agreement with Scottish law and tax publisher Bloomsbury Professional. Bloomsbury has agreed to supply each student who is accepted into the Lawscot Foundation programme from this year with

Yesterday’s Daily Record story relating to the “unsatisfactory professional conduct” of Brian McConnachie QC and the Faculty’s investigation into complaints raised against the advocate have inevitably – many would say, quite rightly – led to accusations of institu

It's just over a year since the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) was founded to represent the interests of criminal lawyers, and the organisation and its inaugural president Julia McPartlin have had a busy time since then. The SSBA was launched during a challenging period. The profession w

To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, the Scottish Sentencing Council has published a new research report reviewing the challenges of and approaches to sentencing offenders with mental health issues. The literature review, carried out by a group of expert academics from universities ac

The Scottish government’s cladding remediation programme continues to generate law reform with the announcement yesterday that the Single Building Assessment (SBS) programme will be expanded. The pilot SBS scheme, designed to replace the EWS1 external wall assessment process in Scotland, came