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First Scottish Searching Services have been confirmed as Exclusive Sponsors of the Conveyancing Conferences in CLT Scotland’s 2022 programme. Over the coming year they will take an active role in various CPD events. The first event in 2022 will take place online on 23rd March, the conference b

The Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, and Social Justice and Social Security Committee are coming together to hold two special sessions looking at the actions taken to reduce drugs deaths and problem drug use in Scotland. The sessions, w

Solicitor advocate Neil Hay and his team have joined Levy & McRae. Mr Hay brings with him his core legal team of associate solicitor Andrew Seggie and legal team PA Michelle McKinnon from MTM Defence Lawyers.

Specialist online courts should be established to tackle domestic abuse cases, it has been recommended. The Virtual Trials National Project board has issued its report on the piloting of virtual summary trials. The board, led by Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle of Grampian, Highland and Islands, suggest

The UK Supreme Court, in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London, has launched an online course. Entitled Inside the UK Supreme Court: Its Role, Its Work and Cases that Affect Us All, the two-week course, delivered by FutureLearn, a social learning platform, is designed to increase kno

Anti-racism campaigners have celebrated a jury's decision to find protestors who toppled a statue of a slave trader in Bristol not guilty of criminal damage. Jake Skuse 33, Rhian Graham, 30, Milo Ponsford, 26, and Sage Willoughby, 22, admitted participating in toppling the statue and throwing it in

Domestic abuse cases accounted for 34 per cent of Sheriff summary trials called and 43 per cent of Sheriff summary trials in which evidence was led between July and September, new figures show. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service quarterly statistical bulletin contains figures on activity in a

As the first week of COP26 drew to a close, and fireworks lit the sky in celebration of Diwali and Guy Fawkes night, a group of mediators from across the globe gathered on Zoom to discuss the World Mediators Alliance on Climate Change Green Pledge. The event was hosted by John Sturrock Q.C of Core S

The 21st Century Bar Conference will take place next month – for the 21st time. The conference will adopt a hybrid format to cater for those who would prefer an in-person event as well as anyone who would like to attend online.

Very few of you will have tuned into the Roberton Report a couple of years ago. Even fewer will be aware that the Scottish government (after a lengthy and entirely understandable delay) is only now consulting on its recommendations. Even fewer will respond to the consultation. Why should you? How co

Defence solicitors will not enter Edinburgh Sheriff Court today after a member of the profession was removed by police from the court building on Saturday without explanation – and at the behest of a member of court staff. While undertaking its boycott of the custody court, an Edinburgh Bar As

The second-largest group of devils – 28 in total – arrived at the Faculty of Advocates' Mackenzie Building to begin their nine-month training programme last week.

With speakers drawn from private practice, the Bar, law accountancy and the medical profession, CLT Scotland’s Personal Injury Conference taking place online on Monday 25 October will provide a thoroughly practical focus Chaired by Lefevres’ Iain Nicol, the conference will consider: the

David Black considers the standard of moral perfection to which we hold figures from the past and the opportunity for self-aggrandisement it creates in the present. Glasgow University’s decision to remove the name of renowned geologist John Walter Gregory from one of its more mediocre campus b

Dominic Raab has replaced Robert Buckland QC as justice secretary. Mr Raab, who was fired as foreign secretary, was heavily criticised during the fall of Afghanistan. He remained on holiday in Crete during the period the Taliban came to power.