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The Scottish Parliament has approved legislation that will help ensure next year’s Crofting Commission elections "run smoothly".Governing the election of commissioners to the Crofting Commission – the regulatory body for crofting – the approved legislation covers:

Thomas Ross The president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has called the £4 million cut in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) budget by the Scottish government "absolutely astonishing".

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has welcomed the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s final report on the legal services market study for England and Wales, including imposing a requirement on providers to publish price information. After the completion of a year-long study in

Stephen Gibb Shepherd and Wedderburn has been voted a “best legal adviser” in Legal Week’s Best Legal Adviser Report 2016-17.

Digby Brown has reported a jump in profits from £7.8 million to £8.6m in the year ending March 2016. Revenue rose to £27.3m, up from £24.6m in the previous year, a 10.9 per cent increase.Highlights in 2016 for the firm have included:

Eilidh Wiseman The Law Society of Scotland has expressed concern about the Scottish government’s cut in legal aid funding as part of the budget.

Alison Atack Glasgow solicitor Alison Atack has been confirmed as the Law Society of Scotland’s next vice president today.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) must re-examine whether the three-dimensional shape corresponding to the product “Kit Kat 4 fingers” may be maintained as an EU trade mark because distinctive character acquired through use of the mark must be shown in all the member states

Pictured: Thorntons staff handing over toy donations to Lynda Sword and Alison Carr from Radio Tay Cash for Kids.

The extent of the earnings gap between law graduates of different universities has been revealed in new government data, Times Higher Education reports. Law graduates from the University of Oxford make median earnings of £61,500 five years following graduation, whereas the figure for graduates from

Ben Emmerson QC The barrister formerly in charge of the independent inquiry into child abuse in England and Wales has been cleared of an allegation of sexual assault following an investigation.

A schoolboy who was seriously injured in an accident when a gate fell on him while he and a friend were playing on a farm has been awarded more than £325,000 damages. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that one half of the couple who lived on the farm failed to take reasonable care for his safet

Lord Mulholland The former Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland, Frank Mulholland QC, has been installed as a Senator of the College of Justice, taking the judicial title, Lord Mulholland.

Sheenagh Adams The world’s oldest national register of land and property will celebrate its 400th anniversary during Scotland’s 2017 Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.

Irregular migrants held in a centre on the island of Lampedusa in the wake of the Arab Spring suffered violations of their Convention rights, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously held. In the case of Khlaifia and Others v. Italy, the court held that there had been: