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Defence solicitors have begun their first week of industrial action over domestic abuse cases after a collapse in talks with the Scottish government over reform to legal aid. They will also decline to act where an accused has no solicitor and cannot represent themselves – and will not take par

Dentons has joined the Lawscot Foundation’s family of sponsors, affirming its commitment to social mobility in the Scottish legal sector. Dentons has committed to a minimum three-year sponsorship to help fund the legal charity’s mission to support aspiring Scottish lawyers from less-adva

Legislation to create a new national qualifications body and an independent inspectorate of schools in Scotland has been published. The Education (Scotland) Bill includes provisions to replace the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) with a new national qualifications body, Qualifications Scotlan

Protections for people who are in debt and experiencing mental health problems have been approved by the Scottish Parliament. The Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Bill includes the power to bring in a pause on debt recovery action until six months after the person has finished treatment.

Spoiler alert, per Viscount Dunedin, in the House of Lords in 1931: trespass to moveables “in a Scottish Lawyer’s mouth is a perfectly unmeaning phrase”, writes Ewan Kennedy. I’m hoping that a case that started in Oban Sheriff Court nearly three years ago will spark the

Change is coming to rent reviews for traditional agricultural tenancies. The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill which is at present going through the Scottish Parliament contains proposals to change the law in relation to how rent reviews are to be dealt with, writes Hamish Lean. Currently, rents are revie

On 12 June, Clan Childlaw celebrated 16 years of delivering its child-centred legal outreach services for children and young people with an event held at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

CMS has launched a new team to support Scottish-based businesses in managing the opportunities and challenges of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Led by Edinburgh-based partner Gordon Hay and senior associate Dr Amanda Cooke, the new Scotland ESG team draws on the depth of the firm

MSPs have backed legislation that will change how the Scottish government supports farming and food production. The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill aims to ensure the government can help farmers and crofters to produce more food more sustainably, supporting their essential role in

Time is running out for the Scottish government to meet a UN environmental justice deadline according to scrutiny by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS), which brings to light a "series of failings" in reforming access to justice in Scotland. Scotland has been repeatedly found in bre

Legislation to amend the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Act, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2018, sets an objective that 50 per cent of a public board’s non-executive members should be women.

Legislation giving Scottish ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided, has received royal assent. The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill allows the creation of a Cladding Assurance Register to give homeow

Provisions in the land reform bill regarding the resumption of farming tenancies will further weaken the sector, not enhance it, Scottish Land & Estates has said. The rural business organisation was speaking after giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Net Zero, Energy and Transport

When it came to finding career inspiration, Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) president Simon Brown didn’t have to look much further than his own front room. Though, when he was a child growing up in Irvine, his mum Louise was a teacher and dad Matthew an engineer, by the time Brown w

Proposals to ensure that every school pupil in local authority or grant-aided schools can attend a course of residential outdoor education are to be scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee. If passed, the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (