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Society should adopt asynchronous legal hearings, Professor Richard Susskind has said. Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland on what lies ahead for civil justice, the legal futurist laid out developments in the court system that he expects to see.

Scotland’s new law officers have been sworn in at a ceremony at the Court of Session. The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, and Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris QC, were nominated by the First Minister and then unanimously approved for appointment by the Scottish Parliament last we

Murgitroyd IP, the international intellectual property business headquartered in Glasgow, has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. Helen Archibald has been appointed chief operating officer and Joanne Lecky is to be the managing director of the company’s trade mark group. They

Fine art prints of British artist Stephen McClean’s paintings of the exterior and interior of Edinburgh’s iconic Parliament Hall are to be published and signed by the Lord President to raise funds for the Lawscot Foundation.

With 30 September signaling the termination of furlough support from the UK government, barring any change of heart, it is inevitable that many employers will be reducing headcount, writes Stuart Robertson. Before your business goes down the path of reducing staff numbers, there are important p

Last month saw the completion of 442 sheriff solemn cases, a figure that is 103 per cent of the average pre-Covid level. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published today the ninth monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in our courts.

The Lord Chief Justice has suggested making juries smaller to deal with the mounting backlog of criminal cases. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Lord Burnett of Maldon said “an opportunity was missed to introduce a temporary reduction in jury size” at the onset of the pandemic last year.

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of 21 tonnes of pistachios valued at more than $100,000. California man Alberto Montemayor, 34, of Montemayor Trucking, was arrested after an audit of Touchstone Pistachio Company found that 42,000 pounds of the seeds were missing.

A woman whose doctor negligently led her to believe she was not a carrier of a hereditary disease has had her appeal against a decision that the doctor was not liable for all the costs associated with raising her child refused by the Supreme Court. The appellant, Ms Meadows, gave birth to a chi

The Supreme Court has found that an accounting firm that incorrectly advised a building society that it could use a method of accounting known as “hedge accounting” to handle volatility in certain payments had negligently cost the society £32 million for the cost of ditching the co

It has been suggested that the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, should recuse herself from any investigation into the malicious prosecution of Rangers FC's administrators due to her involvement in the saga. Ms Bain had claimed that prosecutors involved in the malicious prosecutions did not understand

A six-month extension of emergency measures granted under the Scottish Coronavirus Acts will be debated in the Scottish Parliament next week. The Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill will be scrutinised and debated by MSPs over three days from 22 June.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed Euan Murray as a partner in its construction and infrastructure team. He brings to the firm and its clients 16 years’ experience advising on the procurement, construction and operation of energy and infrastructure projects across the UK. Mr Murray, who was

A bill to legalise assisted dying is being lodged at Holyrood today. The proposals by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur would introduce the right to an assisted death for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.

A consultation on new legislation on the sale and use of fireworks and tackling the misuse of pyrotechnics has been published. The proposed Fireworks and Pyrotechnics Bill follows the report of an independent Fireworks Review Group which recommended tightening legislation to reduce the harm firework