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A group of police officers are to launch legal action after they suffered hearing damage during Bonfire Night. Some 20 officers have sought legal advice and are working with the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) after Police Scotland failed to provide them with adequate ear protection.

The Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, Aisha Anwar, has been appointed by the Scottish ministers to act as a temporary judge. Sheriff Principal Anwar was appointed sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway in 2020 and transferred to Glasgow & Strathkelvin in 2023.

Plans for juryless trials have been condemned by the Scottish, English, Irish and Northern Ireland bars. Following a meeting of the four bars in Belfast recently, their leadership issued a joint statement on the proposed removal of juries for rape and other serious sexual offence trials in Scotland.

The director of a Scottish company has been banned from running a business for eight years following the company's persistent and disruptive cold-calling practices.

The police have been accused of “institutional failures” over the death of an Aberdeen man as the longest-running fatal accident inquiry in Scottish legal history concluded. Warren Fenty, 20, died in a cell in Kittybrewster Police Station following a methadone overdose in 2014.

Holyrood has unanimously approved legislation giving Scottish ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided. The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill will allow the creation of a Cladding Assurance Register whi

Edinburgh Napier Law Society and Law Clinic will present a conference next month on the use of AI technology in the Scottish legal sector.

The Housing (Scotland) Bill introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 26 March sets out changes to rent controls, evictions and tenants’ rights, but it does not address a key issue in residential tenancies, write John Stirling and Conner McConnell. See part two here. Now that the private r

Sheriff Jack Brown is to be removed from office. First Minister John Swinney laid an order before the Scottish Parliament that will mean Sheriff Brown, who sits in the Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands, is removed from office on 7 June 2024.

Defence solicitors are to resume their boycott of summary domestic abuse cases from next month. The Scottish Solicitors' Bar Association announced that none of its members will accept instructions in summary prosecutions involving section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2022 – nor will

Tracey Mulholland has been appointed as the new vice president of the Scottish Solicitors' Bar Association. Ms Mulholland, who is well known to the criminal bar for her hard work and tenacity as the current president of the Glasgow Bar Association, said: "I am delighted to be appointed as vice

The New York Court of Appeals has concluded in an appeal based on a dispute between two classes of shareholder in a wound-up Scottish fantasy sports company that the plaintiffs had sufficient cause for an action of breach of fiduciary duty under Scots law. Nigel Eccles and other appellants, includin

Freedom of information is important according to the vast majority of respondents to a survey by the Scottish Information Commissioner. The research also found strong public support for the reform of FOI law in certain areas, including the extension of the law to cover new bodies such as provid

The Scottish government’s Land Reform Bill is "gambling" with the future of communities in rural Scotland and investment in the transition to net zero. Scottish Land & Estates, the rural business organisation, made the comments as it published its submission on the draft legislation follow

Drivers who receive an endorsement to their licence can now pay any associated fines online. Anyone given a penalty that adds points to their driving licence will have the option to settle their outstanding amount via the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website. This is an alternative to havin