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The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) will continue to publish details of solicitors and advocates’ legal aid earnings despite the equivalent body in Northern Ireland discontinuing the practice amid GDPR concerns. Our sister publication Irish Legal News reported that the Legal Services Agency is

The Duke of Buccleuch has agreed to transfer land to a community group in the Borders, The Herald reports. He has gifted the land from the Buccleuch family's Borders Estate to Newcastleton & District Community Trust.

A councillor in Aberdeen has received an interim suspension of three months after he was convicted of sexual assault. The Standards Commission for Scotland imposed the suspension on councillor Alan Donnelly of Aberdeen City Council after receiving complaints that he had failed to comp

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor can commence an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, judges have ruled. The ICC's appeals chamber today unanimously decided to overturn a 2019 ruling which found that the commencement of an investigation would

Julie Keir looks at the key issues for employers as we face the spread of the coronavirus. So what do employers need to know and do?

Property selling prices are rising in Scotland as an increasing number of homes go on the market, according to the latest ESPC data. Over the past three months, the average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £250,603, a 5.2 per cent increase compared to

Thousands of sitting days have been restored to the Crown Court following comments made by the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Burnett of Maldon said the hearings were “listed further into the future” than they had been in recent years, The Times reports.

The search for the latest bright idea in risk management within the Scottish legal sector has been launched. Now in its third year, the Innovation Cup aims to tap into the expertise of the Scottish legal community and improve risk management across the profession. The Law Society of Scotland is runn

Balfour and Manson has presented its final donation to Children 1st following a year of fundraising. Throughout 2019, staff at the firm baked, ran and held quizzes, raising an impressive £6,309 for the charity.

A woman who fell into an open grave at a funeral has settled her lawsuit against the undertakers, gravediggers and owners of the graveyard. Margaret Walsh told the Irish High Court she fell into the grave while attending the funeral of a first cousin in September 2011.

Land at Stornoway Airport is to be sold to a residential property developer after Highlands and Islands Airport (HIA) successfully challenged a Scottish Land Court ruling that the disputed areas remained subject to crofting tenure. The First Division of the Court of Session&

TLT has secured a variation to an existing licence on Sauchiehall Street allowing iconic venue Campus to be re-homed. Campus bar, diner and nightclub is a long-established, award-winning operation on Glasgow’s busy Sauchiehall Street. It was suddenly closed in 2018 following devastation c

The Lord President, the Lord Lyon and a constitutional law expert are among the newest fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The 2020 fellows "comprise leading thinkers and experts from Scotland and around the world".

A Holyrood committee has called on the Scottish government to include a “sunset clause” in legislation that will enable the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to continue to operate during a post-Brexit transition period and to bring forward proposals and a timetable for introducing a new

Lord Drummond Young has retired from the bench. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2001 and he was appointed to the Inner House in June 2013.