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This year's SLN Annual Review delivers updates from across the field of family law in 2016, including on child law, cohabitation and the Named Persons case. Harper Macleod partner Amanda Masson looks at the state of child relocation in Scots law, noting that last year saw an increase in instructions

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Pictured (L-R): Lord Hodge, George Dick and David Durie

Her Honour Judge Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC A woman from Dundee has become the first non-white judge to be appointed to the Old Bailey, The Courier reports.

Graham Burnside Graham Burnside, a consultant at Shepherd and Wedderburn, is to speak at a major Zurich conference.

John Scott MSP Holyrood's law reform committee has recommended MSPs back a bill providing a new statutory framework for third party rights.

Lindy Patterson QC

Legislation to make civil justice more affordable and accessible for all has today been published at Holyrood. The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill, if passed by Parliament, will:

Sixty-four news solicitors have been admitted to the profession at the latest admission ceremony in Edinburgh’s Signet Library.President of the Law Society of Scotland, Graham Matthews, hosted proceedings and welcomed the next generation of Scots lawyers.

Changes intended to modernise the way fatal accident inquiries (FAI) are carried out will come into force this week. Changes introduced by the Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc (Scotland) Act 2016 will "ensure a system which is effective, efficient and fair", the Scottish governme

James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has said corroboration could yet be scrapped.

Lord Keen Lord Keen of Elie QC has been reappointed as Advocate General for Scotland.

Lord Pentland The Scottish Law Commission has welcomed the recommendation on law reform by the Commission on Parliamentary Reform in its report published this week.

Melanie Schwindt (left) and Sarah Gilzean

Sheenagh Adams Today Registers of Scotland (RoS) mark 400 years of the General Register of Sasines, the oldest national land register in the world, as a specially commissioned poem by Scotland’s Makar, Jackie Kay, was read to the public for the first time.