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The dedicated fund to compensate women who paid for private transvaginal mesh removal surgery will open next month, the Scottish government has confirmed. Established under the Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Act 2022, which was passed by MSPs in January, the Transvaginal M

Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee has agreed to ask the Scottish government to consider a petition's request to erect a national memorial to people accused of witchcraft. The petition was lodged by Claire Mitchell QC of the Witches of Scotland campaign.

A Scottish Green Party MSP today launched a consultation on her legislative proposal to designate protest free ‘buffer zones’ outside abortion clinics across the country. Gillian Mackay said that intimidation and harassment outside these healthcare facilities must end, and that legislati

A newly published judgment from 2019 details how former Scottish MP Natalie McGarry, who was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for embezzlement that year, won an appeal against a sheriff’s decision not to allow her to withdraw her guilty pleas, with the Crown granted authority fo

Following a two-year financial support package for Scottish solicitors to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, the Law Society of Scotland is proposing a practising certificate fee which is "lower in real terms" compared to the pre-pandemic fee level.  The Law Society agreed a £2.2 millio

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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