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Five new Scottish judges have been appointed and will take up position next year. Her Majesty the Queen, on the recommendation of First Minister, has appointed Douglas Fairley QC, Anna Poole QC, Sean Smith QC, Sheriff Robert Weir QC, and Sheriff Peter Braid as Senators of the College of Justice.

Professor Lorne Crerar makes the case for the Roberton Review. The Roberton Review proposals for reform of legal services regulation in Scotland are radical.

Pictured (L-R): Dorothy MacGinty, headmistress of Kilgraston School, Nyree Conway and Kilgraston pupils School pupils in Perthshire have heard from a family law expert about a career in the legal profession.

A bill to protect private sector tenants by introducing measures to limit rent increases and to increase the availability of information about rent levels was launched by Pauline McNeill MSP this week.

The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill was introduced into the Scottish Parliament on 2 December 2019. Implementing many of the Scottish Law Commission’s recommendations on reforming the law of defamation in Scotland, it seeks to codify the current piecemeal approach to an ar

From "parking fines" to "post-mortems", it is "all in a day’s work" for procurator fiscal depute Karon Rollo, who visited Kilgraston School to explain her role to pupils. Speaking as part of Kilgraston’s Women and Business series, Ms Rollo gripped her audience, of Upper Fourth and Lower

The Lord Advocate should test the constitutionality of an independence referendum held without the permission of Westminster by referring any enabling legislation to the Supreme Court, Joanna Cherry QC has suggested. Writing in The Times, Ms Cherry said that James Wolffe QC should “proact

The Scottish government is attempting to give ministers the power to allow solemn trials to be conducted without juries and to "dismantle in one fell swoop more than 600 years of legal principle" in a move described as a "knee-jerk reaction" at best and something "far more sinister" at worst. The Sc

International legal consensus on the nature of cryptoassets as property rights will be required if they become widely used, Lord Hodge has said. The Deputy President of the Supreme Court said this was "the most pressing" property law issue in relation to cryptoassets.

Court administrators have been urged to reconsider the “mothballing” of civil business, amid fears that the financial futures of some law firms and advocates are being jeopardised. Roddy Dunlop QC, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, said that – as is happening in England &ndash

A bill to limit private sector rent rises and to increase the availability of information available to tenants has been lodged by Scottish Labour’s housing spokesperson Pauline McNeill MSP. The Fair Rents Bill, dubbed the Mary Barbour Bill after the legendary rent strike organiser, was written

The Lands Tribunal for Scotland has rejected an application by a landowner for the discharge of a real burden that would have deprived three proprietors in Glasgow's West End of their servitude right of use of a garden. The real burden bound owners in a disposition from 1882 "not to erect any buildi

Alan McIntosh explains why it is "vital" that the amendments proposed by Jackie Baillie MSP to the latest coronavirus bill are implemented. The role of the Scottish government in this crisis is to protect its citizens, and as we move through this COVID-19 crisis and diverge from the rest of the

At the end of 2017 the new Electronic Communications Code (enacted by the Digital Economy Act 2017, amending the Communications Act 2003) replaced the old 1984 Telecommunications Code. After two-and-a-half years, the new code is producing a steady flow of decisions, throwing some much-needed light o

Dear Editor, The reflections by Thomas Ross QC on William Beck's fight to clear his name rightly focused on the problematic nature of eyewitness identification evidence. The potential for miscarriages of justice inherent in this type of evidence is of concern in many jurisdictions.