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In-person hearings will resume at the Inner House of the Court of Session on November 15, lawyers have been told. Though not yet officially announced, Jonathan Mitchell QC noted the development on Twitter.

The Scottish government has been told to provide a Holyrood committee with an "urgent" update on the legal aid dispute as it continues its long-standing policy of refusing to adequately fund the legal aid system. Legal affairs minister Ash Regan last week wrote to key legal figures, expressing

Prosecutors have dropped a case against a woman who faced up to two years' imprisonment for alleged acts of homophobia and transphobia online. Marion Millar, 50, from Airdrie, was charged by police with offences under s.127 of the Communications Act 2003 over her social media activity in 2019 and 20

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been successful in defending a number of leave to appeal cases in the Inner House of the Court of Session in recent months. These include five cases where the complainer sought leave to appeal against the SLCC’s decision that the complaint wa

Compass Chambers are delighted to announce that Gavin Anderson has been appointed to the role of Crown counsel by the Lord Advocate. Mr Anderson will commence his role on Monday. Compass practice manager Gavin Herd said: “We are very pleased for Gavin and congratulate him on his appointment as

Greenpeace has failed in its challenge to the grant of consent to drill at BP's Vorlich field, East of Aberdeen. The decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session earlier this month is the latest in a rapidly growing series of activist challenges to the approvals or permits for oil and gas, ma

Harper Macleod has announced the launch of Greener Actions, a project aimed primarily at reducing the environmental impact of dispute resolution in Scotland. With COP26 due to start in Glasgow on Sunday, Greener Actions aims to form the basis of a coordinated approach by the legal profession in

The Herald has published an obituary of James Walker, who passed away on September 19 at the age of 61. He was "a Scottish man of business who became one of the most prominent commercial lawyers in East Asia".

A new bill to pardon former miners convicted of certain offences related to strike action in the 1980s has been published. The Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Bill follows an independent review, led by John Scott QC, into the impact of policing on Scottish communities during the 1984-85 st

Malcolm Combe, lecturer in law at Strathclyde University and chair of the Land and Human Rights Advisory Forum, looks at the relevance of land and human rights now and what the work of the newly-established forum hopes to achieve.  This is a blog post about the new land and human rights forum,

The owner and landlord of a holiday cottage where a teenager died have been fined after failing to maintain the gas heaters. No annual checks were carried out on the cabinet heaters in Glenmark Cottage, which were also placed in small rooms without enough ventilation.

Digby Brown helped raise a massive £59,000 for spinal injury survivors thanks to the return of the Winter Dinner Dance.

A socialite's speeding fine has been halved to £50 after she requested special treatment due to “financial hardship”. Lady Eliza Manners, 24, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, paid only £50 after she admitted driving her Audi A1 at 47mph in a 40mph section of the elevated M4 i

An appeal by a man convicted of two charges of rape against separate complainers after meeting them on nights out has had his appeal against conviction refused by the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary. Raymond Nyiam argued that the jury ought to have been directed on the issue of reasonab

Multiplex is facing a new compensation claim from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) regarding the design and construction defects that led to a public inquiry into infection deaths at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus in Glasgow. The health board is already su