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The financial hurricane resulting from the coronavirus crisis is now beginning to touch down on the personal finances of millions of Scots and like all great storms, is going to leave a trail of destruction in its aftermath, with debris being made up from broken tenancy, mortgage, and consumer credi

A lifetime achievement award is to be presented to Ian Forrester QC, the former judge of the General Court of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Mr Forrester will be honoured at the 2020 Scottish Legal Awards on Wednesday, 4 November, which will be broadcast live online.

Venues for additional remote jury centres to serve the Sheriffdoms of Glasgow and Strathkelvin and Lothian and Borders have been confirmed. For trials running in Glasgow Sheriff Court, six juries will be based remotely in Glasgow Quay. For trials running initially in Edinburgh Sheriff Court and then

Prompt action is needed by the Scottish government to reform the law of crofting, the Law Society of Scotland has said. In a report, the Law Society sets out recommendations detailing proposed solutions to issues in four areas of crofting law: aspects of succession, owner occupier status, statutory

The number of homicide cases recorded by the police in Scotland increased by three per cent, or two cases, from 62 to 64 between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the latest data from Scotland’s chief statistician show. Elswhere the report shows:

Plans to introduce an anti-money laundering (AML) levy on solicitors has been opposed by the Law Society of Scotland. The Law Society has said a proposed new levy on the legal profession to fund UK government anti-money laundering activity is unnecessary, arguing that the profession alread

Chris Holme looks at the life of Henry Dundas, a controversial figure who has come under scrutiny this year in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. He’s the man I walk past every day but never get to see up close. That’s because he’s 140 feet up in St Andrew Square –

The overall level of new court cases registered has risen to 83 per cent of the average monthly pre-Covid level, according to new figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS). SCTS has published the first of a new monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in the cour

Blackadders has appointed Philip Buchan as a director. Originally from Angus, he specialises in the sale and acquisition of estates, forests, farms, salmon fishings and country houses and he advises clients on all aspects of countryside matters from water supply rights to diversification projects.

To mark Black History Month, SLN is dedicating its ‘Our Legal Heritage’ slot to Scotland’s black history.   For centuries the identity of a young black woman present in a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Murray that adorns the Ambassador’s room of Scone Palace was a myste

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the Scottish Arbitration Centre have announced that the XXVth ICCA Congress has been re-scheduled from February 2021 to 26-29 September 2021 in Edinburgh.  Lucy Reed, president of ICCA, said: “We have been monitoring the Covi

Shared Parenting Scotland is launching a series of online, interactive training courses to help separated parents control their own stress and to improve their communication skills.

Lord Hope of Craighead has warned that the UK government "will bring our precious union to an end" if it is not "very careful". The former Deputy President of the Supreme Court and Lord President of the Court of Session was speaking in the House of Lords on the devolution aspects of the Internal Mar

Thorntons has welcomed eight newly qualified solicitors across four of its offices following a two-year traineeship.

A convicted prisoner who had multiple applications for escorted day absence to see his grandmother refused has been allowed to proceed with a petition for judicial review of decisions of the Deputy Governor to refuse his EDA requests. The petitioner and appellant, S, used to be visited regularl