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There are no plans for weekend courts, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has said. In an announcement of a strategy to resolve the criminal case backlog, the SCTS said weekend courts formed no part of these plans. 

Women, families and children are among those who will benefit from separate funds worth a total of £18 million to improve drugs services. Four schemes are planned for May with the funds coming from the additional £250 million announced by the First Minister to tackle the drug deaths emer

A virtual conference is to provide a forum for discussion amongst interested parties about how civil business might be conducted once the pandemic is over. The Lord President has asked the Judicial Institute to organise a conference, to be held virtually, to provide a forum for a discussion amongst

Michael Reid, managing partner at Meston Reid & Co, gives his take on how changes to insolvency law could come into play for one key industry sector – the fishing industry. Whether it is the continuing impact of Covid-19 or the more recently reported effects of Brexit, media comments proli

A Crown appeal against the Sheriff Appeal Court’s decision to quash the convictions of three men who wore allegedly offensive T-shirts to a football match between Celtic FC and Linfield FC has succeeded in the High Court of Justiciary. Daniel Ward, Martin Macaulay and Ryan

More than 350 sheriff solemn cases were concluded in February, which is 82 per cent of the pre-Covid level. Figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show that during the month of February:

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has welcomed official figures showing the volume of crime covered by the survey in Scotland is down 46 per cent since 2008-09, with violent crime having fallen by nearly two-fifths (39 per cent) over the same period. The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) 2019-20

A sheriff has ordered the discharge under the Extradition Act 2003 of an Albanian national who had a European Arrest Warrant issued against him after he failed to attend a trial for attempted murder in Italy.  An application was brought on behalf of a court in Trieste, Italy, by the&n

The Lord Advocate must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud prosecution which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, said his

The Civil Recovery Unit is to recover £6.46 million under proceeds of crime legislation after an Aberdeen company accepted it had benefited from unlawful conduct. WGPSN admitted one of its subsidiaries, PSNA Limited, had benefitted from payments made to Unaoil to secure contracts in Kazakhstan

The stage three debate on a bill to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) directly into Scots law will take place today. If passed, the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill will mean public authorities will be bound by law to uphold the rights of children and young people

Tributes have been paid to solicitor Kathleen More, who passed away last month. Sheriffs, lawyers and staff at Edinburgh Sheriff Court paid their respects as a live stream of her funeral service was played on screens last week.

Plans to incorporate human rights treaties into Scots law have been announced by Equalities Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville. Subject to the outcome of May's Holyrood election, a new Human Rights Bill will incorporate four United Nations human rights treaties into Scots law, including legislat

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the passing of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act at Holyrood. The legislation creates a new independent body, Redress Scotland, to administer a scheme making financial payments to survivors of historical child

The critically endangered flapper skate is to gain further protection following the urgent designation of a new marine protected area (MPA) within the Inner Sound of Skye. The site will protect a nationally important flapper skate egg nursery area, which is the largest of its kind to be identified i