The Criminal Justice Committee has questioned whether the Scottish government’s proposal to include criminal justice social work in the National Care Service (NCS) is necessary, citing concerns over a lack of evidence to support the change. In a report published today, the committee examine pr
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Land leaders have joined forces to complete a development programme to ensure Scotland’s land is managed responsibly.
The man accused of building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 has pleaded not guilty before a US court.
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has published an open letter to the profession – reproduced below – on the duty to co-operate to support an efficient and effective complaints system. For a number of years, we have been raising concerns about a significant minority of firm
Law firms’ commitment to pro bono work remained strong in 2022, despite the global crisis, according to a new report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The 2022 TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono is the fifth edition of the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s survey mapping the global scale and trend
Monday 20 February at 6.00pm – SSC Library, Edinburgh The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association is hosting an event for those interested in hearing what life is like as a judicial assistant at the Supreme Court.
Lord Beckett has been appointed as chair of the Judicial Institute. The Lord President, Lord Carloway made the appointment after Lord Armstrong intimated his intention to resign as chair.
A Crown appeal against a four-year sentence given to a former GP after he was convicted of raping a woman in a hotel room in Stirling has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. The respondent, MG, a foreign national with indefinite leave to remain in the UK, was convicted after trial of rapin
The Supreme Court has rejected two unionist legal challenges to the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol. One of the two challenges, which were heard together last year, was brought by a group of senior unionist politicians led by Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister and inclu
In her piece on media coverage of the Scottish government’s proposed gender-recognition reform (1 February 2023), Gwyneth King criticises those who have pointed out that women’s organisations which signed a statement in support of the Scottish government’s policy are recipien
Scotland's bottle deposit return scheme could result in an unlawful trade barrier with the rest of the UK, Aidan O'Neill KC has said. The initiative, due to launch in August, aims to boost recycling by means of a 20p deposit on single-use drinks bottles and cans.
Louise Shiels discusses an English case in which the First Tier Tribunal Property Chamber issued what is likely to be the first remediation contribution order under section 124 of the Building Safety Act 2022. The application was made by 18 leaseholders of a high-rise self-contained block of fl
A judge of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has quashed an eviction order following an appeal by the tenants of a property in Armadale after finding that the First-tier Tribunal had wrongly classed the tenancy as a private residential tenancy. Siblings Gerard and Katrine Boyle sought to challenge the
CMS has advised HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH (HIMA) on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Sella Limited and its subsidiaries, including Sella Controls (Sella), from the company’s management shareholders. Headquartered in Bruehl, Germany, HIMA is a provider of safety-related au
Dr Mitchell Lennan (AUCEL, ACCPIL) and Dr Stephanie Switzer (University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance) have published an open access article on the recently negotiated World Trade Organization Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies in The International Journal of
