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The Law Society of Scotland has said the decline in the legal aid budget is a "major concern". Responding to the publication of the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s (SLAB) annual report 2017, which shows a further overall drop in legal aid spending from £137.8 million to £135.7 million, Graham Matthew

Fiona Hyslop An organisation in Skye is to become the first to acquire land under a new scheme to transfer publicly-owned forestry assets, to the benefit of local communities.

Aileen Campbell Women from Northern Ireland can now access abortion services free of charge, through Scotland’s NHS.

Pictured: Lord Clark (centre) with pupils from Mackie Academy and the Community School of Auchterarder

Millions of documents held by organisations including offshore law firm Appleby have been stolen in what has been dubbed the Paradise Papers leak. The firm said in a statement that its computers were hacked by an intruder “who deployed the tactics of a professional hacker and covered his/her track

Commercial disputes specialist Philip Sewell has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner, bringing 25 years’ experience to the firm’s commercial disputes and regulation division. Mr Sewell advises on contentious commercial matters, including insurance, professional negligence, shareholder di

An American woman who challenged a sheriff’s decision that a dispute with her former husband over the care of their child should be determined in the United States rather than in Scotland has successfully appealed against the ruling. The Sheriff Appeal Court held that the sheriff “erred in lawâ€

Mhairi Richards QC Mhairi Richards QC received more in legal aid fees than any other advocate in 2016-17, the latest Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) figures show.

Scottish Legal News has learned that vulnerable adults are being put at a disadvantage because of severe delays in lodging guardianship orders in court due to a shortage of mental health officers. A guardianship order is sought where a person has no capacity and may be very vulnerable

Douglas Mill Just when you thought that good old Civic Scotland had got over the Parliament Building Fiasco, along came the Edinburgh Trams Farce. Another opportunity to display ludicrous amateur incompetence at public expense. Oh how the contractors laughed yet again. Years late. Many small busines

Sarah McWhirter Travelling the country is no problem for Scottish-borders born solicitor and keen hill runner Sarah McWhirter.

Only specialist legal software supplier with offices in all four countries of the UK LEAP, the world’s leading cloud software provider for small law firms, announces it has relocated its offices in Edinburgh to larger premises to accommodate a team which has expanded from seven to sixteen during t

A team from Shepherd and Wedderburn will be sleeping out in Festival Square on 3 November 2017 to raise money for the Rock Trust.Partners Patrick Bell and Fiona Buchanan, associates Peter Alderdice and Neil Campbell, solicitor Lucy Mulreany and business development executive Hazel Thomson will be s