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Proposals for greater case management of family actions in the Sheriff Court have been generally endorsed by the Faculty of Advocates. While disagreeing with some specific recommendations, the Faculty welcomed the aim of reducing drift and delay.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond who began crowdfunding his legal fees last night for his judicial review case at the Court of Session exceeded his target in a matter of hours. Mr Salmond sought £50,000 to cover the fees involved in seeking judicial review of the Permanent Secretary to the S

A Crown Court judge who accessed files in a case in which her daughter was a witness has been censured for "serious misconduct", The Brief reports. Judge Karen Holt accessed a record in the case of Cecil McCready, a music teacher facing trial on child sexual abuse charges. He was jailed in Marc

More than 100 Britons who were resettled abroad in the post-war period are to sue the UK government over abuse they suffered, the BBC reports. The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) said in March that 2,000 people should be compensated within a year.

The requirement that a claimant of widowed parent’s allowance must have been married to or have been the civil partner of the deceased unjustifiably discriminates against the survivor and/or the children on the basis of their marital or birth status, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. T

DLA Piper has bolstered its construction team in Scotland with the appointment of Ross Campbell to its construction & engineering practice in Edinburgh. Mr Campbell joins as legal director from Eversheds Sutherland with over 20 years' experience of energy, infrastructure and real estate developm

On 28th August 2018, Lord Docherty issued his opinion in the application of the Joint Liquidators of Doonin Plant Limited for directions. Eric Baijal examines the case. This is the latest in a series of judgments grappling with how the law approaches the liability of officeholders and

Terra Firma Chambers will once again sponsor the Scottish Planning and Environmental Law (SPEL) Annual Conference which will be held on Thursday 13th September at the COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh. Now in its 28th year, the SPEL Conference will focus broadly on two main themes - the Planning (S

In December 1864, Mary Pritchard became seriously ill and experienced retching and headaches. She was suffering the effects of antimony poisoning at the hands of her husband, Dr Edward Pritchard, who would become the last man to be publicly hanged in Glasgow. When her mother, Mrs Jane Taylor, moved

A new initiative to drive partnership working between legal professionals in the UK and Nigeria has been announced by Prime Minister Theresa May. The initiative is the latest stage of the Ministry of Justice’s ‘Legal Services are GREAT’ campaign, which aims to promote the UK&r

Two men who allegedly went on a bin-stealing spree have been caught by police. Kenneth Brooks, 50, and Nicola Weydeveld, 19, were spotted by a security guard with a suspicious number of rubbish bins.

Iranian authorities have been condemned over their cruel treatment of jailed British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has suffered panic attacks in prison and collapsed this week. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been experiencing the attacks since she was forced to return to Tehran’

The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, and the High Court's designated arbitration judge, Mr Justice David Barniville, are set to launch the New York chapter of Arbitration Ireland next month. The event, designed to highlight the attractiveness of Ireland as a seat for arbitration an

An anonymous litigant-in-person has been ordered to identify himself to avoid his proceedings against Google in the High Court in London being struck out, the Law Society Gazette reports. The claimant, known only as ABC, has managed to conceal his identity from court staff, the defendant and the jud