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Planning lawyer Ewan MacLeod provides detail on the Scottish government’s consultation on the future of Scottish Planning Policy and the removal of the current presumption in favour of sustainable development. In 2014, the Scottish government introduced a significant change to Scottish Plannin

Investors remain interested in the Scottish commercial property market despite the coronavirus crisis, a lawyer has said. Derek Nash, partner at Lindsays, said that demand was “robust” throughout the crisis and that the trend towards working from home did not mean the end of the office.

The majority of Scottish firms say they plan to make redundancies once the UK government's furlough scheme comes to an end, according to Addleshaw Goddard's latest survey of Scottish companies. The Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Business Monitor, produced in partnership with the Fraser of

The effect of the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017, and whether a claim for historic abuse in Scotland should be allowed to proceed in the English courts, was considered by the High Court in its recent judgment, JXJ v The Province of Great Britain of the Institute of Brothers of the

The winners of the first Scottish Universities Law Institute (SULI) scholarships have been announced. Edinburgh Law School's Shona Warwick and Aberdeen University's Chike Emedosi are the inaugural recipients of the scholarships.

The latest available figures for Scottish Legal News show continued growth for SLN with a surge of new users of the www.scottishlegal.com website. Subscribers to the free daily newsletter increased by 144 to 13,420. Twitter followers increased by 145 to 10,838 and LinkedIn increased by 212 followers

Scottish Legal News is pleased to report that our sister publication, Scottish Construction Now, has passed a significant milestone breaking through the 10,000 subscribers mark to its free daily newsletter with over 140,000 unique visitors to the www.scottishconstructionnow.com  website each mo

Ensuring next year’s Holyrood election can take place is the focus of a new bill being considered by the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. With the election currently due to take place on 6 May 2021, the impact of Covid-19 means that contingen

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has announced that Lord Glennie will replace Brandon Malone as chair of the board of the centre when Mr Malone steps down after ICCA Edinburgh next year. He will be joined by three other new directors, including Mary Thomson who will become vice chair when Lord G

The Scottish Land Commission is continuing its calendar of public meetings online, with the next focused on the Highlands. The commission is holding an informal public meeting online to give people from the Highlands the opportunity to find out more about how their community can benefit from land re

The Lord Justice General has appointed two new members to the Scottish Sentencing Council to fill the current vacancies. Lord Matthews has been appointed as the new senator member and will replace Lord Turnbull following the end of his five-year term on the council, while Summary Sheriff Paul Brown

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has improved how it operates but policing in Scotland is not financially sustainable, says the Auditor General for Scotland. Leadership of the SPA and Police Scotland has stabilised, and the authority has made progress in financial planning and management, as well

Advocate Catherine Smith has been appointed to the Scottish Civil Justice Council for a three-year term. Ms Smith is a member of Arnot Manderson Advocates. Her principal areas of work are reparation and public law. She specialises in personal injury, judicial review and clinical negli

Ampersand's Fiona Drysdale has been appointed as an advocate member of the Access to Justice Committee of the Scottish Civil Justice Council. She is deputy clerk of the Faculty of Advocates and clerk to the board of examiners. She is also an advocacy skills instructor on the advocates’ tr

The Scottish government's announcement that legal aid solicitors will benefit from a 10 per cent uplift in legal aid fees and access to a £9 million fund to help those experiencing hardship as a result of Covid-19 has received a cautious response. Following meetings with the Law Society of Sco