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Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee are set to visit new evidence-taking facilities as the Vulnerable Witnesses Act comes into force today. The new suite, which opened towards the end of last year, aims to provide a less daunting setting than a court for vulnerable witnesses

Andrew Ireland offers his personal insights on recent mediations in which he has been involved, contrasting them with his experience of pre-trial meetings in personal injury cases. Recent articles in Scottish Legal News by Julie Hamilton of MacRoberts, David Hossack of Morton Fraser and by the Vice

Apex Property Factor has been removed from the official register of property factors for failing to meet minimum standards of practice. The company was removed under section 8 of the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 on 10 April 2019 after it was deemed by the Scottish government to no longer mee

The Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC, has stepped down after three-and-a-half years in office. Ms Grahame offered her resignation at the Faculty’s Anniversary Meeting, and arrangements for an election to choose her successor will be announced in due course.

Clare Kelly looks at a cautionary tale on whisky production. As one of Scotland’s biggest exports, Scotch Whisky accounts for around 70 per cent of Scottish food and drink export.

Scottish Green MSP Andy Wightman has launched an online tool which allows people to report short-term let properties operating in their community. The homesfirst.scot website includes a simple form which allows local residents to express concern where a whole property is no longer anyone’s per

The Scottish government is consulting on which bodies it should add to legislation to give them data sharing powers in respect of debt and fraud. Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 introduces new information-sharing powers to reduce debt owed to, or fraud against, the public sector.

Chris Kerr, a partner in the corporate team at Harper Macleod who has been at the forefront of the firm's growth in the Highlands, Islands and Moray, has been named as one of the UK’s "most daring, innovative and creative lawyers" by a legal publication. He is one of only two lawyers from a Sc

Elaine McIlroy details the recommendations for the new post-Brexit single skills-based immigration system. The topic of immigration has been front page news this week across the UK. In Scotland there have been calls for a 'Scottish visa' and devolution of immigration powers. The UK government a

Jenny Dickson explains what public authorities ought to know about FOI requests, which they are routinely failing to timeously satisfy, if at all. The Scottish Information Commissioner has reported a year-on-year rise in freedom of information (FOI) requests, with an eight per cent increase in reque

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has joined calls for an urgent government response to a new report detailing serious concerns about practices in Scotland’s prisons and police custody facilities. The report from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) fo

Plans to deliver Edinburgh’s first purpose-built music and performance venue for more than 100 years are back on track after the developer of a nearby shopping centre dropped its legal challenge.

Plans to devolve various tribunals to Scotland as part of the Smith agreement are to be delayed by at least two years, The Herald reports. The Scottish government was meant to take over the operation of a number of tribunals but a report now makes clear this will now not take place “before 202

Fife Law Centre (FLC) has celebrated its 10th anniversary at an event in the Lochgelly Centre. The local community legal service was set up in 2009 to improve access to justice by providing free legal services to people in Fife who cannot afford to pay for legal services and who have difficulty acce

More than 100 guests representing 80 organisations attended Lindsays' annual Third Sector Drinks Reception, held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Wednesday, to discuss issues emerging for this year and beyond. Attendees heard from some of the most important figures in the field, wi