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Organisations supporting victims of crime in Scotland will receive a £500,000 boost from a fund that takes money from offenders. Seven organisations – including Victim Support Scotland and Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland – will share grant funding to provide practical he

Digby Brown recently successfully challenged an argument advanced by a defender regarding the application of section 8(4) of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (‘the 2018 Act’). Sections 8(1) and (2) of this Act contain important provisions restrict

Sir Iain Livingstone is to step down as chief constable of Police Scotland in the summer. He took the role on in 2018 and has been a serving officer since 1992. Sir Iain is responsible for 23,000 officers and staff in what is the second largest police force in the UK.

M&A volume in Scotland last year rose by 10.7 per cent to 446 announced deals, up from 403 in 2021, with a total deal value of £24.8 billion, the latest Experian United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review shows. The value of deals was 22 per cent higher than the p

Terra Firma Chambers’ Scott Blair and Graham Dunlop appeared in the recent case of Bruce v Moray Council [2023] CSIH 11, an appeal to the Inner House which set in sharp focus the situation where a local review board allowed an appeal by a developer seeking planning permission for houses and wh

Communities are being urged to have their say on how new control zones could be used to tackle firework misuse. A key part of the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act which was passed last year, control zones will give local authorities the power to designate areas where fireworks will

A career as an advocate is open to anyone with the necessary ability and motivation. So said the Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates Barney Ross, who joined other Faculty members at a ‘Becoming an advocate’ panel discussion at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School earlier this wee

Ben Zielinski and Alice Gray explain the details of the Deposit Return Scheme.  Scotland’s new Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is due to come into force on 16 August 2023 as a result of the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020.

With Scot­land and the rest of the UK con­tin­u­ally miss­ing house­build­ing tar­gets, Fraser Mitchell asks: what are the road­blocks to build­ing? Figures from industry body Homes for Scotland indicate that there is currently a shortage of almost 100,000 hom

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld a conviction under section 2(1) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 after an appeal by a man who was found guilty of uploading images of his former partner to a swingers’ website while they were still together. DF was sentenced to a

Ukrainian lawyer Larysa Zhdankina writes about her journey to Scotland last year following the Russian invasion. Our house in Kyiv is located 20 minutes from Zhulyany airport and Vasylkiv military airfield. These objects were attacked in the first minutes of the invasion. The remains of the fir

Yesterday's report that the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Roddy Dunlop KC, had caused “disquiet and dismay” because of a “Twitter spat” perplexed me greatly. So much so that I wanted to say something – briefly though, as it really is a storm in Tom Thumb’s tea

Thorntons has grown its wills, trusts and succession, commercial real estate and residential property teams with a number of new appointments in Dundee, Forfar, St Andrews and Perth. Six new solicitors were brought on board in January and February, in response to a strong growth in demand for servic

Humza Yousaf has promised to decriminalise abortion in Scotland – despite the fact it is not a crime here. Mr Yousaf, who hopes to become Scotland's next leader, said he was supporting campaign group Back Off Scotland's calls for the practice to be fully decriminalised.

Legal affairs minister Elena Whitham praised Scotland’s legal profession and committed to working constructively in a speech at the Law Society of Scotland’s annual dinner. Law Society president Murray Etherington also addressed the more than 200 guests who attended the function, speakin