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A Full Bench of the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has determined that a nobile officium petition made by a complainer in a rape case after she was not notified of an application by the accused to lead evidence of their sexual history is competent under the doctrine. The petition
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Scotland's lowest-paid prosecutors could receive an £8,000 increase to their salary next year as part of a £5.6 million pay offer aimed at averting a strike in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). The three-year pay offer follows a ballot for industrial action launched
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The resilience fund set up to support legal practitioners during the Covid-19 pandemic is failing to deliver, Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) has warned. The association wrote to Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Community Safety Secretary Ash Denham yesterday to echo criticisms from the Edinburgh Ba
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The Scottish government has lost a high-profile court challenge against its Covid-19 regulations closing all churches for congregational worship and private prayer. Representatives of several churches argued before the Court of Session that the regulations represented disproportionate interference w
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Planning lawyers Sarah Stewart, Kendra Richardson and George Sismey-Durrant have joined Brodies LLP. Ms Stewart joins Brodies as a senior associate and will be based in Aberdeen. With more than 14 years' experience, she specialises in planning issues for the housebuilding sector.
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The Law Society of Scotland should regain its regulatory function for solicitors from the "grossly inefficient" Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the Scottish Law Agents' Society (SLAS) has said. The SLCC, which is funded through a levy on practising lawyers, has proved controversial sinc
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A barrister whose application to become Queen's Counsel was opposed by two judges faced apparent bias in the appointments process, an investigation has concluded. Marc Beaumont unsuccessfully applied to the Queen's Counsel appointments panel in 2016 and again in 2018.
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A purported haul of MDMA worth nearly £900,000 was actually strawberry-flavoured sweets, police have admitted. Paris police boasted on Twitter of their massive bust at an alleged "narcotics packaging workshop feeding underground parties".
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A property development firm has failed to establish that it was entitled to a reconveyance of a tram line route sold to its predecessors in title that was subsequently re-acquired by the local authority that originally sold it under a compulsory purchase order. Granton Central Developments Ltd, who
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Legal aid fees have increased by five per cent across the board from today, the biggest increase in more than a decade – but the Law Society of Scotland has warned that more must be done to address a "generation of underfunding". The Scottish government unveiled its revised legal aid package i
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Gillespie Macandrew has announced the promotion of seven lawyers and two tax specialists across its Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth offices. Ashley McCann, Austin Burns and Patrick Munro have been promoted to associate, while David Halligan, Gillian Wilson, Melissa Strachan and Susan Henretty have bee
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Private residential landlords would be wise to take notice of Scotland’s first wrongful termination order. It establishes the fact that the law has teeth and can bite, writes Paul Harper. It is a ruling which underpins the fact that it could prove costly to evict tenants under false pretences
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Addleshaw Goddard has called on the Scottish government to provide "urgent clarity" to retail landlords and occupiers over what will happen after the end of the evictions moratorium in six months' time. MSPs have voted in favour of extending the legislation but ministers are yet to announce plans fo
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A man arrested for allegedly stealing a police car managed to escape custody by stealing a second police car, a police force said. Police in Quebec, Canada say they were alerted just after noon yesterday that a police car had been stolen during a police operation.
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Douglas J. Cusine challenges Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf to break his silence on Scotland's malicious prosecution scandal. A month ago, I posed the question in relation to the Rangers malicious prosecution case: “Where has the Justice Secretary gone?” He has not even said whether ther
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