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Edinburgh Bar Association law firms that sat on the Scottish Legal Aid Board's extradition court duty scheme have withdrawn.

Plans to increase the use of pre-recorded evidence in criminal trials have been given the green light by Holyrood’s Justice Committee. The moves are aimed at reducing the stress and trauma of being involved with the legal system for vulnerable victims and witnesses of crime, with an initial fo

Ian Maxwell discusses how parenting coordination can reduce conflict in shared parenting arrangements.  Once an agreement has been reached between parents or a court order made, the arrangements for sharing parenting time with children in a separated family are settled. Right?

A not-for-profit professional and personal development organisation for women in the law will expand into Scotland with its first event in Edinburgh later this week. Women in the Law UK, which was founded in Manchester by barrister Sally Penni, expanded into London, Leeds and Liverpool last autumn.

DAC Beachcroft Scotland has reported strong growth over 2018 as a result of five new panel appointments and securing additional work from existing clients. With more pipeline work and tender outcomes awaited, John Maillie, location head for DAC Beachcroft Scotland, is optimistic heading into 20

Brexit is starting to get real, with the detail of the ‘no deal’ provision being put in place. Continuing on from her earlier two articles on Brexit and family law (Part I, Part II), Rachael Kelsey now looks at what all family lawyers (specialists or those with a more general practice) n

The effects of a change in the law on workplace regulations introduced some five years ago are still to fully reveal themselves in Scotland, writes Lorna Ferguson. The Brexit story so far has involved fresh consideration of several long-standing legal, social and economic issues; an important one be

Families are currently waiting up to eight years for fatal accident inquiries (FAI) to be conducted into the death of a loved one, figures obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed. A freedom of information request submitted by the party to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Servi

Lesley Gordon reviews the application of Scotland's cohabitation legislation in recent case law.  The number of cohabiting families in the UK has almost doubled in the last 20 years and, in 2006, Scotland led the way by introducing legal protection for cohabitants from unfair situations arising

Police officer numbers have seen a small increase in the last quarter but have decreased over the past year. The key findings of the statistics, published today by Scotland’s chief statistician, are:

A Holyrood committee has found "serious deficiencies" in the way consultation was carried out around planned changes to the 2021 census. In a report published today, it recommended wider consultation and proposed amendments to avoid the perception that sex is being conflated with gender identity.

Rob Marrs, head of education and Policy at the Law Society of Scotland, explains why it's keen to hear from BAME students, trainees or NQs who have had previous careers prior to studying law. In our recent ‘A blueprint for a more inclusive profession’ we noted that we would: Hold focus g

The Scottish government's plans to introduce a presumption against prison sentences of 12 months or less would, in practice, apply to sentences of anywhere up to 18 months where a guilty plea is tendered early enough and would limit access to justice as declining summary business shrinks the pool of

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have today warned that “we still have no clarity around how people’s rights will be protected” as a series of letters between Police Scotland, the Crown Office and the Scottish Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Policing highlighted lingering concern

A new system of instructing second post-mortem examinations of homicide victims has been put forward by the Faculty of Advocates, in an attempt to ease the grief of bereaved families. Under the suggested scheme, a panel of forensic pathologists would be available to perform defence post-mortems with