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The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has moved to offices in Thistle House at Haymarket from the premises it occupied in Drumsheugh Gardens for nearly 30 years. The relocation is part of SLAB’s drive to create efficiencies and reduce the pressure on its administration funding.

The nation’s busiest courts are preparing for strike action today as workers claim they are under excessive strain in the wake of court reforms. Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen sheriff courts are expected to be most affected as the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) organised a walk-out fo

The Scottish government has said a decision has not yet been made on the planned women’s prison in Greenock. The £75 million HMP Inverclyde has been widely opposed by campaigners and opposition parties who say the focus should be on reducing the number of women being put in prison.

Following yesterday’s publication by the UK government of a draft bill for the transfer of powers from Westminster to Holyrood Alistair Morris, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: “We welcome the publication of the draft clauses and are pleased to see that they take into account the

An application for protected food status has been launched for a Scottish barley .

The UK government has published a draft bill detailing the powers to be transferred to the Scottish parliament following the recommendations made by the Smith Commission. It comprises: constitutional matters, fiscal framework, tax, welfare, public bodies, executive agencies and the crown estate, civ

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed new Home Office rules which mean that Sikh solicitors will no longer have to remove articles of faith when meeting clients in UK detention centres. The Law Society had pressed the Home Office to update the detention services order dealing with search procedur

The first minister Nicola Sturgeon (pictured) has confirmed that agreement has been reached with the UK government on the terms of the transfer of powers to allow the Scottish parliament to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in Scottish parliament elections. Once the order has been passed, t

A sheriff has criticised prosecutors after he threw out a case in which a care worker allegedly spiked the drink of a man with severe learning difficulties using mayonnaise The Courier reports. The care worker, Mark Courage, offered to plead guilty to a charge of illtreating or wilfully neglecting t

Scottish doctors have called for a “conscience clause” to be included in new assisted suicide laws which would let them opt out of the measure. Holyrood’s health committee was told yesterday that the majority of doctors opposed the proposals, which would permit state-assisted suicide through t

People seeking to end their lives with assistance from another person will have two weeks in which to do so, but when this time limit starts remains unclear, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The intent of the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill is to remove the risk of criminal prosecution for tho

Proposals to legalise assisted suicide will today be scrutinised by MSPs on the health and sport committee. The Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill is at stage one of the parliamentary scrutiny process and the nine MSPs on the health and sport committee will begin their scrutiny by questioning the lega

The UK government’s proposed anti-terrorism measures could be successfully challenged under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Law Society of Scotland has warned. The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill introduces a number of measures to restrict the movement of individuals suspec

Scottish police are being caught running red lights or speeding nearly nine times per month reports the Daily Record. 1,343 notices of intended prosecution were given to staff at Police Scotland since it was formed in April 2013.

Plans for a new women’s prison have been challenged by a prison reform charity. A tendering process has begun for the facility, which the Scottish government wants to build in Greenock, Inverclyde.