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Scottish cities including Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen could see employment rise by 5-7 per cent as a result of increased availability of office space in the wake of the pandemic, according to a new report by KPMG. Covid-19 has triggered a shift in the way people work, interact, and shop. As busi

The independent inquiry investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus (QEUH) in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (RHCYP/DCN) in Edinburgh has today began hearing from affected patients and fa

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has demanded the Scottish government respond to research stating that no recommendations to improve practice are made in nine out of 10 fatal accident inquiries into deaths in prison. Sheriffs made no recommendations for improvement in

Certain provisions of bills passed by the Scottish Parliament are outside its legislative competence, the Supreme Court has ruled. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (UNCRC) and the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotl

Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Louisa Knox has been appointed as a non-executive board director at Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). Ms Knox specialises in pensions law, working on a range of clients on all pensions related matters including ongoing advisory, scheme restructuring, ESG and r

A three year limitation period applies in the majority of injury claims in both Scotland and England, with the courts in both jurisdictions having equitable discretion to allow a claim to proceed despite being issued late. This raises the question of the effect in this context of a period of delay o

The Scottish government has been told to provide a Holyrood committee with an "urgent" update on the legal aid dispute as it continues its long-standing policy of refusing to adequately fund the legal aid system. Legal affairs minister Ash Regan last week wrote to key legal figures, expressing

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been shortlisted for a Scottish Public Service Award. The SLCC’s work to deliver improvements in service using "agile methodologies" is one of three projects shortlisted for the Project and Programme Management Award. The SLCC is nominated al

The Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee is beginning an inquiry looking at the Scottish government’s use of emergency regulation making powers. The regulation making power, known as the ‘made affirmative procedure’, has been used over 100 times by

On Thursday 18th November 2021 I appeared on John Beattie’s Drivetime Show on BBC Radio Scotland to discuss the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Esther Brown – and the criminal proceedings that followed. It occurred to me that there were certain public misconceptions about t

The Scottish government should introduce a bill on legal aid fees sooner than is currently planned, a Holyrood committee has said. In a pre-budget scrutiny report on the government's justice priorities in 2022-23, the Criminal Justice Committee states that the "failure to address the problems with f

The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association has organised a protest outside the Scottish Parliament on the St Andrew’s Day public holiday on 6 December. The occasion will mark a year since the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bar Associations took joint action and will coincide with a boycott of the holiday

New figures showing over 90 per cent client satisfaction with Scottish solicitors represent a "huge vote of confidence" in the profession, the Law Society has said. Independent polling by Savanta ComRes published today showed that members of the public place high levels of trust in solicitors and sa

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has won the Project and Programme Management Award at this year’s Scottish Public Service Awards. The award recognises efficiency work which has seen dramatic improvements in performance including average complaint journey times almost halved, so

Responding to the launch of the Scottish government’s consultation on Scotland’s three verdicts, the Law Society of Scotland has said that the fundamental principles of Scots criminal law must be maintained in any future considerations for change. Debbie Wilson, convener of the Law Socie