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The advice that the Scottish government relied on to justify the ban on public worship will come under court scrutiny at a two-day hearing this week. The evidence which resulted in a blanket ban on worship in churches will be challenged when Canon Tom White, a Catholic priest from Glasgow, launches

TLT has appointed Peter McGladrigan as a legal director in Edinburgh. Mr McGladrigan, a solicitor advocate, is a leading financial services, commercial litigation and insolvency lawyer.

The nomination for Scotland’s new Biometrics Commissioner is set to be agreed by the Scottish Parliament tomorrow. Dr Brian Plastow, a former police chief superintendent and lead inspector for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, will become the first person to hold th

Pictured (L-R): Jennifer Smith, Laura Sinclair and Neil Risk. Credit: Dave Donaldson Anderson Strathern has announced a merger with Lerwick-based Neil Risk Solicitor and Estate Agent.

Mergers are often a topic that charity trustees would rather avoid. Yet it’s one that some in Scotland are now considering as they look to a future shaped by the legacy of Covid-19, writes Alastair Keatinge. As we close in on the first anniversary of Lockdown One, only now are we starting

Extra funding to services supporting victims of crime and to improve public understanding of stalking offences has been announced by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf. The £137,000 funding, made up of one-off grants, includes funding to cover additional costs incurred during the Covid-19 lockdown

Rodney White suggests that Westminster and Holyrood should "step up to the plate" and fund infrastructure specifically for housebuilding projects. "Build back infrastructure" is not as snappy or alliterative as the build-back-better mantra favoured by politicians who believe that post-Covid-19 there

The Faculty of Advocates has announced a new scholarship as it opens this year’s applications for financial grants. The Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) is providing £5,000 for a scholarship to support devilling, which will be administered by the Faculty in tandem with its o

Law firms have been advised to embrace IT and flexible working in order to cope with the pandemic. The sixth annual salary guide into Scotland’s legal and financial service sectors from Core-Asset Consulting is a review of current salary levels and a guide to the major issues that professional

The number of cases concluded between September and December last year almost matched the rest of the year combined, new figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) show. The figures detail further progress in court recovery in the quarter preceding the second Covid-19 lockdow

A campaign has been launched to help children and young people recognise the signs of online harms including child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSE). The CSEthe Signs initiative aims to raise awareness among those aged 11 to 17 and their parents and carers of what constitutes CSE, and where they c

A parliamentary inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on human rights has called on the Scottish government’s recovery plan to ensure that those people who have already experienced disproportionately negative effects as a result of the coronavirus crisis do not suffer further. The rights of wome

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has suggested serious consideration be given to decriminalising drug use in order to resolve the "national emergency" of drug-related deaths in Scotland in a new report. In December 2020, the National Records of Scotland (NRS) reported that the number of

Former President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, is to speak at this year's Women in Law seminar, hosted by the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA). The annual event brings together a number of high profile and inspiring women from the legal community to share their personal experiences

With a father who was a procurator fiscal and two older siblings who had entered the legal profession too, meal-time conversations in Calum MacNeill’s childhood home were very much focused on the law. Given that background, it is perhaps unsurprising that the young Mr MacNeill was determined t