Scot Dignan has become the first lawyer in the history of the WS Society to be admitted as a Writer to the Signet remotely. Mr Dignan, who is a legal inspector with HM Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland, prosecutor, PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde and a former Lord Hope Scho
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A Scot working as a US lawyer has described her journey from Edinburgh Law School to a top American firm. Speaking to GlobalLawyersConnect, Eilidh Reid recounts a journey that began with an exchange year at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law before an LLM at Duke University and ult
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has announced that its new Application Programming Interface (API) for the Civil Online service is ready for a wider rollout. Civil Online, which was launched in April 2019, is a fully digital service for simple procedure cases, enabling cases to proc
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) procurement team has been selected as one of the five finalists in the ‘Procurement Team of the Year’ category at GO Awards Scotland. The nomination highlights how the procurement function at SCTS has developed over the last couple of
Scotland's courts service is "paying lip service" to Covid-19 guidelines and more must be done to protect court users, lawyers across Scotland have said amid outbreaks in sheriff courts. Edinburgh Bar Association and Glasgow Bar Association are among 11 bar associations who have signed a letter crit
Eric McQueen, chief executive of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), has written to bar associations in response to a letter raising concerns about the implementation of Covid-19 protections in court and tribunal buildings. We reproduce his letter in full below. Thank you for your lett
The European Commission has published two draft “data adequacy” decisions in favour of the UK. If approved, these adequacy decisions will allow personal data to be transferred from the EU to the UK, without the need for organisations to put in place any additional safeguards. As such, th
There are no plans for weekend courts, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has said. In an announcement of a strategy to resolve the criminal case backlog, the SCTS said weekend courts formed no part of these plans.
Following the Scottish government’s announcement that most of Scotland will move to Covid Protection “level 2” on 17 May, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has reviewed the operating arrangements in place across the courts. From 17 May cases will be allocated within the max
The European Commission has published the final version of the new Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs). This is an important development for multinational companies, and for any business that engages in international data transfers, writes Scott McGeachy. The New SCCs will be required for transf
What is the CMA doing about 'greenwashing'? Scott Rodger explains all. The ethical consumer market in the UK has increased four-fold since 1999 and is now conservatively estimated at over £40 billion per annum. Consumers are actively changing their behaviours in favour of more sustainable
Edinburgh lawyers have asked the court service to retract a letter which gives an "inaccurate" account of an incident in which a solicitor was removed from a court building on Saturday. Claims made by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) about the solicitor's actions have been challenged
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has denied suggestions it may have altered court statistics to make it "appear as if we are getting through the backlog". Criminal defence solicitor Euan Gosney tweeted on November 19 that there "were approx 60+ summary trials in Edinburgh Sheriff Cou
On Thursday 18 November, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its draft guidelines on the interplay between Article 3 (territorial scope) and Chapter V of the GDPR (international data transfers). This is an important development for international data transfers under the GDPR (also re
A British citizen whose extradition was sought by the US authorities over alleged fraud has had his ECHR appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court. Lord Reed gave the sole judgment, with which Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens agreed.