Thursday 29 January 2021 The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is hosting a “Beyond the Basics” webinar on the new jurisdictional rules that will apply to family law cases from 1 January 2021. The event will give attendees an overview of the following topics and offer practical
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The New York State Bar Association is debating whether to disbar Donald Trump's attorney, former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. The bar published a statement accusing Mr Giuliani of playing a part in the Capitol incident last week.
The Housing & Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (FTS) has made the first ever award of a Wrongful Termination Order, penalising a landlord who had evicted a tenant on bogus grounds. Tenant Jesus Rodriguez-Ortega had rented a studio flat in Edinburgh from Cesar Domingu
STEP Scotland, in association with Terra Firma Chambers, will host a webinar entitled Cross Border Issues focusing on England/Scotland on Thursday 28th January 2021 from 12 noon to 1pm. The event, which will be introduced by Terra Firma Chambers’ Philip Simpson QC, provides an online forum for
The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will host a conference on ethics over three virtual sessions in the coming weeks. The Ethics Conference will be held on Tuesday 19 January, Tuesday 26 January and Thursday 4 February.
The publication of a report detailing government knowledge of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAP) has been ordered by a committee. The director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide an unclassified report on UAP, another term for unidentified flying objects, within six
Prisons should offer free cannabis to drug-dependent prisoners to determine whether it could stem overdose deaths and reduce violence, a police and crime commissioner has said. Arfon Jones, North Wales PCC, said if the authorities seriously wanted to reduce violence in prisons, “they should be
Solicitors in West Lothian will move to adjourn future trial diets as concern over the safety of courts in Scotland grows. The Faculty of West Lothian Solicitors has endorsed the response of the Glasgow Bar Association to the Lord President, Lord Carloway, who this week said failure to comply with c
In the fourth quarter of 2020, the average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £269,542, up 8.1 per cent compared to last year, according to the latest data released by ESPC.
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The Law Society of Scotland has raised issues over solicitors' ability to perform their jobs properly in courts with the courts service. Amanda Millar, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said practitioners had expressed concern with the current arrangements and "their ability to play a full a
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its coronavirus financial resilience surveys revealing the impact of coronavirus on firms’ financial resilience. In response to the crisis, the FCA has been monitoring the effects of the economic downturn on firms’ s
The Scotsman has published a full obituary of David Wood. "David D Wood was, until he retired due to ill health in 2000, the doyen of the solicitors practising in Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court. Highly respected in legal circles, Mr Wood was appointed to be an Honorary Sheriff in 1990 and he served with di
The Chinese government is to revoke the licences of human rights lawyers hired to help protestors in Hong Kong who were arrested as they attempted to flee to Taiwan last August. A Chinese court sentenced 10 of the protestors to prison terms ranging from seven months to two years after they were conv
Significant concerns have been raised over the Scottish statutory instrument implementing an ostensible increase in legal aid fees proposed by the Scottish government last year. The Glasgow Bar Association said only five of its members supported the package offered by the government and that it had
