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Controversial and widely opposed plans to take civil justice online will have a "destructive effect on feelings of community amongst litigation practitioners", a lawyer has said. Andrew Stevenson, SLAS secretary, told Scottish Legal News that the pandemic had disrupted the civil court system "on a s

Pictured (L-R): Neil Risk and Willie Shannon of Anderson Strathern (by Dave Donaldson) Anderson Strathern has made a director hire at its Lerwick office in Shetland, with Willie Shannon joining the team.

Richard Hepburn, MD, Millar & Bryce, takes a look at the latest residential property data. The property market has clearly ebbed and flowed throughout 2020 and 2021; there was a low when the property market was forced to temporarily close amid Covid lockdowns before the highs emerged following t

Rebecca Barrass takes a look at Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners v McLaughlin & Harvey Limited. A recent appeal hearing before the Inner House of the Court of Session has confirmed that in circumstances where parties have a contractual agreement to use an alternative dispute resolution mechanis

David Flint, Balfour and Manson litigation partner, retired at the end of last month. Here he looks back at his 40-year career in legal practice. I think I was the last of the apprentice generation starting with Guild and Guild WS in Rutland Square Edinburgh in 1979. Even before I was qualified, I w

Aberdeen house prices rose 2.3 per cent in the last quarter, a new report shows. Published by Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited, in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research – the data also indicate that:

Douglas Roberts, partner in Lindsays' corporate and commercial team, has advised another firm on its transition to employee ownership as the Highlands-based business, Reid & Fraser, became Scotland’s first employee-owned full-service accountancy firm. All shares in Reid & Fraser Charte

Shockwaves reverberated through the cycling community recently when a jury returned a ‘not proven’ verdict against a car driver, Jordan McDowall, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. The 21-year-old was acquitted of causing the death of 51 year-old cyclist, Kevin Gilchrist, by

On Friday around 150 mediators from all over the world will gather in two online seminars to discuss their commitment to reducing their collective and individual carbon footprints and to helping to build sustainable dispute resolution systems in their countries.  The World Mediators’ Alli

A pregnant woman in Poland has died from septic shock which doctors allegedly did not treat properly out of concern they would fall foul of the country's strict anti-abortion laws. Polish lawyer Jolanta Budzowska said doctors "waited for the foetus to die" based on their interpretation of a controve

A team of academic researchers from Glasgow and Napier Universities are gathering information from lawyers about the processes of child contact matters where there are allegations of domestic abuse.  Scotland has an ambitious agenda for modernising child law, delivering children’s rights

A man has accused two companies of discriminating against him on the basis of his support for Rangers FC. Edward McClung described his football loyalty as a "philosophical belief" in what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind employment tribunal case, The Telegraph reports.

An Orkney fish farming company has been unsuccessful in its challenge by judicial review of the decision of the Scottish Ministers to refuse two applications to develop salmon farms off the Orkney coast. The petitioner, Orkney Marine Farms Ltd, argued that the reporters for the respondent had acted

Defence solicitors will not enter Edinburgh Sheriff Court today after a member of the profession was removed by police from the court building on Saturday without explanation – and at the behest of a member of court staff. While undertaking its boycott of the custody court, an Edinburgh Bar As

Nine prisoners have died at a maximum security prison this year, where guards have claimed authorities turn a blind eye as inmates are easier to deal with when they are on drugs, The Times reports. The deaths happened at HMP Shotts, in North Lanarkshire. Russell Findlay, the Conservative MSP for Wes