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The UK government is being sued over its failure to disclose details of over £3 billion worth of Covid-19 contracts that it has awarded to private companies. Three MPs and the Good Law Project are seeking judicial review of the government's failure to disclose the information, arguing it is br

Scots criminal lawyers who want to address the concerns of their profession have formed a group to promote the interests of new and aspiring practitioners.

MacRoberts has promoted property lawyer Kyle Moir to the partnership and has also appointed private client specialist Chris Gardiner. Mr Moir is a highly experienced and well regarded real estate lawyer. He deals with all manner of property work including development site acquisition and disposal, f

Graeme MacLeod comments on a recent Inner House judgment in which police officers in a WhatsApp group lost an appeal against a decision to investigate them. The case of BC v the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland was pursued by a group of 10 Scottish police officers, all of whom were

Police and courts will gain powers to remove suspected abusers from victims’ homes and ban them from re‑entering under new legislation published today. The Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill, if passed by Parliament, will also allow social landlords to end or transfer a tenancy of a

Restoration works are now complete at the Category B listed Nairn Courthouse.

A law firm has blamed Home Secretary Priti Patel's disparaging remarks about "activist lawyers" for a knife attack on one of its immigration solicitors last month. The London-based firm, which has not been named, wrote to the Law Society of England and Wales following the attack, in which a man with

Ian Beattie, Lindsays' chief operating officer and chairman of scottishathletics, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Mr Beattie's award has been given for services to athletics after a long competitive and voluntary career in the sport. As well as being scottishathle

The House of Lords Constitution Committee is undertaking an inquiry into the constitutional issues raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is exploring the impact of the pandemic on:  Calls for written evidence on the courts and Parliament strands of the inquiry have closed, and the committee is in

Irish lawyers believe that an embattled judge who broke social distancing rules should follow the example of other high-profile figures in the country and resign. A poll by our sister publication Irish Legal News found that sympathy has ebbed for Supreme Court judge Mr Justice S&

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers are holding the first event of the 2020/2021 calendar on Wednesday 14th October from 1pm to 2pm. At this event, Veronica Donnelly, VAT and indirect taxes Partner at Azets (formerly Campbell Dallas) will cover the follo

A pregnant woman who went into labour minutes into her bar exam managed to complete the crucial test despite giving birth halfway through. Illinois woman Brianna Hill was originally due to sit the test much earlier in her pregnancy in July, but it was moved to October due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Much has been said about the plight of criminal defence lawyers in recent years, from the inadequacy of legal aid fees to the impracticality of working hours. Almost all of it has been from the point of view of practitioners with decades of experience in the sector, though. McGovern Reid solicitor M

A trio of young offenders have successfully appealed the punishment parts of life sentences imposed on them after their joint murder of a man in Edinburgh, reducing them by two to four years each.  Keiran McMillan (or Elliott), Aron McMillan, and Levi Hunter (or Brown) were

A new campaign is seeking a change in the law that would confer anonymity on rape complainers. Led by Glasgow Caledonian University law lecturers Andrew Tickell and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, the Campaign for Complainer Anonymity aims to formulate legislative reforms which can be adopted by the Scott