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Justice Secretary Michael Gove Outlining plans to end “grotesque inefficiencies” in the courts Justice Secretary Michael Gove said lawyers may face legislation forcing them to work for free in order to deal with “indefensible inequalities in the justice system”.

Judicial complaints reviewer Gillian Thompson OBE MSPs yesterday heard evidence from judicial complaints reviewer Gillian Thompson OBE in support of a register of judicial interests.

Charles Swan Lawyers have criticised as “absurd” plans proposed in the European Union which would see photographers punished for breach of copyright if they sell or publish images of building or artworks under copyright.

President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger said in a speech that judges have taken power from democratically-elected politicians by taking advantage of European and human rights legislation.

Alex Neil MSP Charities and other third-sector organisations that work with people who receive benefits have been invited to play a role in developing Scotland's new social security powers.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson MSP The Scottish government has ended automatic early release for long-term prisoners.

Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone Police Scotland solved more murders in 2014-15 than were committed over the year, according to new performance figures published by the force.

DWF has been awarded the “Closing the Education Gap” accolade at this year’s Scottish Business in the Community (SBC) awards. At last night’s event, which was attended by the president of SBC, HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, DWF was recognised for its innovative education programme 5 S

Naomi Pryde This week's SLN Spotlight falls on Naomi Pryde, a litigation and dispute resolution solicitor at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP in London. Naomi was recently elected to the Law Society of Scotland's Council, where she will represent the constituency of England & Wales.

The House of Commons Library has noted the absence of proposals on welfare from the Scotland Bill. The proposals were drawn up during the cross-party Smith Commission talks but the principle that discretionary additional benefits must provide extra income is missing while the idea of “no detriment

Ben Zielinski (pictured) discusses the Court of Session's reiteration that commercial common sense is only relevant to interpreting the terms of a contract if those terms are ambiguous. Where the words used are clear and not open to more than one interpretation, a court must give them their natural

John Henderson & Sons LLP, Dumfries, have announced that associate, Mark Marshall (pictured) was recently appointed partner of the firm. Mr Marshall qualified as a solicitor and notary public in 2007 after undertaking a specialist litigation traineeship with one of the country’s largest person

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Scottish landowners will have to accept "the public responsibilities that come with that ownership" following the introduction of new land reform legislation. Land reform minister Aileen McLeod (pictured) pledged to end "the stop start nature of historic land reform" as she published new draft legis

The Scottish Arbitration Survey, a joint initiative involving the University of Aberdeen, Burness Paull LLP and the Law Society of Scotland, has published its first report. Report No 1 covers the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. The report provides statistics relative to the occurrence of ar