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The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association will be holding its annual general meeting at 6pm on Thursday 27 May 2021. The meeting will be held via Zoom. All SYLA members are welcome to attend, however, to allow for distribution of Zoom details, all attendees are required to sign up in advance.

The number of Scottish firms facing insolvency is expected to increase sharply as government loans require to be paid. R3, trade body for insolvency and restructuring accountants, said the first quarter of 2021 had seen a sharp fall in companies and individuals becoming bankrupt.

The 'resilience fund' offered to criminal legal aid solicitors by the Scottish government is worth less than half of the money it has saved in legal aid payments over the pandemic as a result of the sharp decline in criminal business. The fund, of which only a fraction has been paid, is worth a tota

Scottish Water has been fined £6,700 at Dundee Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to an incident of water pollution in Fife in 2018. Approximately 400 litres of a chemical coagulant were discharged into the River Eden in October 2018 resulting in the death of at least 500 trout and salmo

The Scottish Law Commission today has published a discussion paper on updating the mental element in homicide. The crimes of murder and culpable homicide are generally regarded as the most serious of all crimes in Scots law, in terms of gravity and impact on victims and their families.

The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association is hosting a CPD event free to its members. On Wednesday 30 June a distinguished panel will discuss "Trauma Awareness in the Criminal Justice System".

The Scottish government’s £1 million fund to support legal aid traineeships in Scotland has opened to applicants. The government fund will provide support for up to 40 new legal aid trainees, paying for 50 per cent of their salaries. In addition, trainees’ regulatory costs, nationa

The Scottish government’s new Youth Justice Strategy and action plan, which aims to support children and young people in conflict with the law, has been published. Key priorities in the strategy include:

Best-selling Scottish crime writer Val MacDermid and Scottish poet and spoken word artist Stephen Watt were among those who read extracts from the Saughton Sonnets at the National Youth Justice Conference today. The Faculty of Advocates is one of the sponsors of the Saughton Sonnets, an anthology of

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have criticised "pointless drug prosecutions". Speaking at yesterday's Holyrood debate on drug-related deaths, the party's health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton stressed the importance of trauma-informed care when dealing with addiction and its treatment.

The Scottish government has spent more than £1 million on the litigation involving the collapse of Rangers Football Club, a freedom of information request has revealed. The figure is part of a total of more than £5.8m the government has paid in legal fees over the past five financia

The Scottish government has yet to achieve its objective of ensuring that people convicted of criminal offences increasingly receive community-based sentences instead of going to prison, according to a new report. The Community Justice (Scotland) Act was introduced in 2016 and established a new nati

Political parties in Scotland are calling for laws to enshrine a fair tipping code after claims a top chef allegedly took thousands in gratuities from staff. The calls follow accusations made by employees of the Kitchin Group that head chef Tom Kitchin and his wife took sums earned by work

A Scottish care homeowner has been banned from serving as a company director for six years after his firm went into liquidation with no explanation for the hundreds of thousands of pounds that disappeared from company accounts. Laurie Gray, 50, from Hamilton, was director of Saltcoats company&n

The UK government will undermine devolution if they establish freeports in Scotland and Wales without reaching agreement with devolved governments, according to Scottish and Welsh ministers. The devolved governments said that while they were committed to working with the UK government, UK ministers