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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

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

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’.

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 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.

A contempt of court hearing linked to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's (SLCC) attempts to recover a file has ended with contempt not being upheld against a solicitor, but with costs awarded. The hearing at the Inner House of the Court of Session was ordered in relation to a solicitor&rsquo

Police officer numbers in Scotland are at their lowest point since early 2009 – well before the Scottish government merged forces to create Police Scotland in 2013. There are currently 17,117 full-time police officers serving across Scotland, as of December 2021, surpassing previous lows recor

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have today published a joint report making recommendations for the safe and responsible introduction of self-driving vehicles.  The report recommends introducing a new Automated Vehicles Act, to regulate vehicles that can d

On 22 December the Scottish government ushered in a reform of the legal services market that has been sitting on the statute books for more than a decade, when it authorised the Law Society of Scotland to begin acting as an approved regulator under the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010. This change

A petition seeking judicial review of guidance accompanying the sex question on the Scottish census will be heard by the Court of Session next month. Fair Play For Women is instructing Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, in the case.

All short-term let properties will require a licence to ensure they are safe and the people providing them are suitable, under legislation approved by the Scottish Parliament. Local authorities will be required to establish a short-term lets licensing scheme by 1 October 2022, and existing hosts and

An advocate who was fined by the Scottish Legal Complaints Committee after it found he had failed to act in a client’s best interests by failing to disclose the terms of a feeing arrangement to senior counsel prior to settlement negotiations has lost an appeal against part of the decision. Jon

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been successful in securing a file required to investigate a complaint – but only after raising court proceedings against the firm in question.  Following a complaint made to it, the SLCC had first requested the file from the firm in May

The Scottish government’s updated procedure for handling formal complaints by civil servants about a minister’s or former minister’s behaviour has been published. The independent procedure, which has been developed in partnership with trade unions, will now be reviewed further by t

In December 2021, the Scottish government published its terms of reference for the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry, to be chaired by Scottish judge, Lady Poole. The overall aims of the inquiry are to investigate the strategic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in a number of areas in order to establish the