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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.

Scotland's incidence of financial crime has risen by nearly one-third quarter-on-quarter, while violent crime has fallen, The Herald reports. According to Police Scotland's management information report, there were 1,955 incidents of fraud in the first quarter of 2017-18.

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.

Proposals to establish a biometrics commissioner to provide independent oversight of biometric data used by the police and others in Scotland and an associated statutory code of practice are out for consultation. Scotland is the only nation in the UK missing an independent body to oversee biometric

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held by a majority that the Hungarian Supreme Court did not breach a man's right to a free trial by refusing to refer a question to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling. However, the ECtHR found that applicant G&aac

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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

An appeal court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment protects the energy consumption data collected by smart meters. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that individuals have a reasonable expectation that this data should remain private, and that the government's access of it cons

The Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) has responded to plans to allow first-year criminal defence trainees to appear in court because of dwindling practitioner numbers. Recent media reporting indicates that plans are afoot to amend the current rules governing when trainee solicitors are able to a

A Russian national, a publisher and a religious association suffered a violation of their ECHR right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously held. The case concerned anti-extremism legislation in Russia and a ban on publishing and distributing Islamic books.

Calls have been made to refer Burmese military figures involved in human rights abuses to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Findings of the UN independent fact-finding mission into human rights abuses in Burma were welcomed by the Burma Human Rights Network, which called on the UK an

The Law Society of Scotland is drawing up plans to allow first-year trainee criminal lawyers to appear in court because there are too few entrants to the criminal legal aid sector, The Times reports. There are currently between 25 and 30 trainees at criminal legal aid firms, in addition to those at

Improvements to plans for an opt-out organ donation system have been suggested by the Faculty of Advocates to MSPs. The Faculty called for annual publicity campaigns so new residents in Scotland were always kept informed about the policy of deemed consent.

The number of civil cases in Scotland initiated in 2016-17 was the lowest since records began in 2008-09, with a drop of 44 per cent since that year. The latest civil justice statistics, published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician today also record a 48 per cent drop in cases at the Court of Se

Souter Investments has sold search company First Scottish to US firm Eli Global for an undisclosed sum, it announced yesterday. First Scottish produces searches and reports for solicitors, local authorities, financial institutions and others.