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The Scottish Police Authority will receive an additional £10 million to invest in modernisation of the police fleet. The funding will enable the purchase of around 235 new ultra-low emission vehicles by Police Scotland and will also help support the replacement of 140 existing petrol

A renewed attack on trial by jury in Scotland has been met with scorn from lawyers. A "cross-justice" group led by the Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, has proposed a pilot of juryless rape trials in what represents the latest attempt to remove juries from sexual offences cases.

Levy & McRae has announced a number of promotions. The firm has promoted to legal director: Sandra Biggart (private client/matrimonial), who trained with the firm in the mid-1990s and has spent most of her career there and Carol Boyd, (commercial litigation) who joined the firm in 2016 and

Holyrood has voted to directly incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law. MSPs voted unanimously for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill to become law, meaning public authorities will have to co

The Scottish government is consulting on the detail of plans to pardon miners convicted of certain offences during the 1984-85 strike. An independent review into the impact of policing on communities during the strike, led by John Scott QC, recommended that the Scottish government should introduce l

Lawyers who are physically disabled or have a chronic illness and are entering or who have successfully entered the legal profession are encouraged to participate in a new study. Dundee Law School PhD student Rachael Wallace is undertaking a study which aims to examine whether the Equality Act 2010

The Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by an Edinburgh university after a sheriff dismissed its action for payment against a former postgraduate student dismissed for jurisdictional reasons. Heriot-Watt University sought payment of £7,000 from its f

Following the recent formation of the New Homes Quality Board to put the New Homes Ombudsman Service into place, a Scottish construction solicitor has urged the board to give the ombudsman wide regulatory powers and include consumers who instruct works to refurbish, redesign or extend their exi

Most drugs are not inherently dangerous when used casually and drug interventions that are punitive and reinforce criminal identity are ineffective, according to a new paper. In a report for the Scottish government that looks at the drugs laws of five countries, it was found that the hierarchy of ha

The role of Lord Advocate should be split so that his political and prosecutorial functions are entirely separate, the vast majority of respondents to a Scottish Legal News survey have said.

The Catholic priest in a legal battle to overturn the Scottish government’s ban on public worship has joined a similar court action led by leaders from other faith groups, represented by double silk Aidan O’Neill QC. Canon Tom White, whose St Alphonsus parish is in the Calton area of Gla

Few will have envied James Wolffe QC the position he has found himself in as Lord Advocate during recent Holyrood events. This week he found it necessary to powerfully reassert the independence of the Crown Office in the wake of a call made by Labour’s new Scottish leader, Anas Sarwar, for the

'Glasgow's Miles Better' was a 1980s campaign to promote the city of Glasgow as a tourist destination and as a location for industry and business. Back then fossil fuels were powering the country and releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere every year. 'People Mak

'Glasgow's Miles Better' was a 1980s campaign to promote the city of Glasgow as a tourist destination and as a location for industry and business. Back then fossil fuels were powering the country and releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere every year. 'People Mak

The Scottish Law Agents’ Society has secured wide-ranging political support for a proposed change in the law that would prevent the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) from approving its own budget. Andrew Stevenson, secretary of the society, said SLAS had received the support of