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The Scottish government has paid over £500,000 in legal expenses to Alex Salmond over its botched inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment made against him. It admitted breaching its own guidelines after the former first minister took the government to court over how it dealt with the acc

The Scottish Civil Justice Council has published its sixth annual report, which outlines its achievements, accounts and a summary of the rules prepared during the year. Writing his foreword as council chair, the Lord President, Lord Carloway, charted the council’s continued work on civil court

The Scottish Law Commission (SLC) is keen to hear from family law practitioners about their experiences, and those of their clients, of claims under the cohabitation provisions in the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. The commission would be grateful if practitioners would take time to compl

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been granted leave to intervene in the continuing legal challenge to the “serious human rights implications” of Serco's lock-change policy. The private accommodation provider began its mass eviction policy of up to 300 people in Glasgo

Profits in Scotland’s legal sector have fallen by over a quarter in the last 10 years, according to French Duncan. The accountants compared the most recent Law Society of Scotland Financial Benchmarking report for 2018 with the society’s 2008 Benchmarks and Costs of Time survey.

The Scottish Land Commission has launched a new survey seeking views of communities across Scotland about community engagement in decisions relating to land. The commission said it is supporting communities, landowners and land managers to work together to make better – and fairer – deci

A Scots lawyer who delayed administering the estate of a deceased client of his firm after having failed to make proper attempts to contact the beneficiary has been fined £5,000. Gary Pirrie, 50, was found guilty of “professional misconduct” by the Scottish Solicitors’ D

The Scottish government has abandoned plans that would have allowed anyone over 16 to change their legal gender within a day or brief waiting period. Some feminists have described the move as a “major victory” for women’s rights.

An action plan to provide "voluntary, safe communication" between victims and those who have harmed them in Scotland has been published. Restorative justice aims to bring together both sides of crime, harm or conflict to help victims move on while seeing perpetrators face the consequences of their a

The Law Society of Scotland, the Faculty of Advocates and the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission have welcomed the Scottish government’s response to the Roberton report on legal services regulation. The government has pledged to consult on possible reforms after recognising the main Roberton

The average valuation of a corporate finance deal in Scotland is on the rise, PwC has predicted, in spite of economic uncertainty which is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Speaking to business leaders this week, the professional services firm’s head of corporate finance in Scot

The Scottish government has published legislation to extend the right to vote in Scottish elections to citizens of all nationalities legally resident in Scotland. The Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill aims to benefit around 55,000 people and reaffirms the existing voting rights

The Scottish Law Commission has today published a discussion paper seeking views on proposals for the reform of securities granted over land and buildings in Scotland. Standard securities are big business: 127,306 transactions were registered in Scotland in 2017/2018.

The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) is advertising two vacancies for consumer representative members. The SCJC was established in May 2013 and replaced the previous Court of Session and Sheriff Court Rules Councils. In addition to preparing rules for the Scottish civil courts, it has a remit t

The latest statistics from Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report 2018-19 show that the value of residential property sales in the financial year 2018-19 was £18.2 billion, an increase of 1.6 per cent when compared with 2017-18. The residential sales market has increased by 67 pe