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Janys Scott QC Family law specialists in Scotland have thrown their weight behind a call to change the Brexit blueprint, which they fear would cause “unfairness and confusion” for families.

Clear lines of accountability are “absolutely essential” to avoid major IT failures in the future, a Holyrood committee has warned today. In a letter to the Scottish government, the Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee said there was some confusion over who is ultimately responsi

Paul Mosson The Law Society of Scotland has appointed Paul Mosson (pictured) as its new executive director for member services.

Some of you will be old enough to remember songs and poems like this from your primary days. Things like The Next Stop Is Kirkcaldy. Even as a kid, I never felt entirely comfortable with the Cooper one. Basically about wife beating. Strange. Anyway, what is all this you will be wondering. Cupar. Fif

A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

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Fraser Gillies Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has joined one of the world’s largest multi-disciplinary

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A claimant in a simple procedure case which was initially defended and then settled when the pursuer accepted a tender is entitled to the expenses of process as assessed, after a court rejected the defender’s argument that he should have his liability in expenses capped at 10% of the sum decerned

Jeremy Hutchinson QC, Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, has passed away at the age of 102. Lord Hutchinson was regarded as the greatest criminal barrister of his generation. He was junior defence counsel in the Lady Chatterley trial; defended the spy George Blake; model Christine Keeler and the drug de

A non-EU national may benefit from a right of residence in the Member State in which his EU citizen family member resided before she acquired the nationality of that Member State in addition to her nationality of origin, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court ruled th

Kevin Stewart A website which allows users to create tenancy agreements complying with new legislation has been welcomed by landlords.

The EU must renew its efforts to promote gender equality and eradicate discrimination and violence towards women, according to a new paper from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The paper – Challenges to women's human rights in the EU: Gender discrimination, sexist hate speech and gender

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties. T