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Dundee Sheriff Court will host a memorial service for the late William Boyle on Friday 18 of August at 1pm. Scottish Legal News published an obituary for Mr Boyle last month.

Kay Springham KC of Compass Chambers along with David Hay, advocate of Westwater Advocates have obtained permission on behalf of the Equality Network and Scottish Trans to intervene in the judicial review petition brought by Scottish ministers following the section 35 order issued by the Secretary o

A Dundee sheriff has granted decree of absolvitor to the former partner of a man who sought a five-figure sum from her on the basis that he had given it to her to allow her grandmother to buy her council house, in which he had expected to eventually live with her. Pursuer Richard Gourlay claimed he

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Iraq water crisis could have regional consequences, UN human rights chief warns

The initial thought on seeing this book for the first time might be for many readers to wonder why there should be another on the same person and the religious and political topics of late-Renaissance Scotland. The author herself suggests the point in her list of further reading with the comment tha

Neil Stevenson welcomes the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill, but ignores or fails to notice that the Scottish government is proposing a legal services regulator to take control of the entire legal profession. That would include entry to it, standards of education, discipline within and

Scottish government proposals to regulate the legal profession are a threat to lawyers and judges, the senior judiciary has unanimously warned. In its response to a call for views on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill, the College of Justice said that the government proposes to:

An application for recall of an arrestment served by the City of Edinburgh council on the bank account of a man with unpaid council tax has been granted by an Edinburgh sheriff. Kevin McKenzie argued that funds in his Bank of Scotland account could not be lawfully arrested as his sole income was der

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service is now in a position to start engaging with solicitor firms who wish to use the application programme interface (API) service for simple procedure claims. The service allows for bulk submissions of claims and would benefit those that do high volume simple pr

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has announced plans to review the enforcement and investigative tools available to the legal services regulators, including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This could include increasing financial penalties available to regulators, as well as enabling regulat

The Scottish Law Agents’ Society has responded to Holyrood's consultation on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill. A condensed version of the response is reproduced below. We are deeply uneasy about why the Scottish government feels that it is desirable, appropriate or necessary to

A landlord who was ordered to pay £4,000 to two former tenants after being found in breach of tenancy deposit regulations has had the sum reduced by £1,500 on appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. Gordon Bavaird, a landlord since 2017, had originally taken a deposit from tenants Lis

The City of Edinburgh Council has decided not to appeal a Court of Session ruling that found its short-term lets (STL) licensing policy to be unlawful.

The Scottish government has launched a consultation on draft regulations transferring certain appeal functions of the Transport Tribunal and allocating new appeal functions relating to bus services improvement partnerships to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. The consultation on draft regulations per