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Significant concerns have been raised over the Scottish statutory instrument implementing an ostensible increase in legal aid fees proposed by the Scottish government last year. The Glasgow Bar Association said only five of its members supported the package offered by the government and that it had

As tougher Covid restrictions are introduced in Scotland, the Lord President, Lord Carloway, has called for all court and tribunal users to abide by the protective measures already in place against Covid transmission in Scotland’s courts and tribunal buildings. In his statement issued today, h

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has confirmed that courts and tribunals will continue to operate business as currently scheduled during the latest lockdown. The existing exemptions to restrictions, allowing court and tribunal users and staff to travel to, and work in, court and

A legal messenger known as the world’s most loyal employee, having worked at the same firm for 84 years, has passed away. John Burns was 98 and had said he would retire in the weeks before his death. He had continued delivering legal documents around the Court of Session for TC Young Wilson Te

MBM Commercial has bolstered the firm’s dispute resolution practice with the appointment of Tim Edward. He joins the firm as a partner and will work closely along side Cat MacLean, head of MBM’s dispute resolution group. Mr Edward was previously a partner at Dentons and head of its comme

Burges Salmon has announced the appointment of Nigel Watson as a corporate partner to lead its employee incentives team in Edinburgh. Prior to joining Burges Salmon, Mr Watson was a partner at Brodies, where he established and led its employee benefits practice.

A top lawyer has called for drug use to be decriminalised in order to combat Scotland's drug deaths crisis. Iain Smith, of Keegan Smith Defence Solicitors, said removing the criminal element from drug use will help users to be seen as “people who are in pain and in need of help”.

A total of €171.3 million in GDPR fines were issued against European countries in 2020, a new report shows. The fines were issued between January 1st, 2020, and January 1st, 2021, according to the GDPR Fines 2020 Report by Finbold.

A trustee who embezzled hundreds of thousands from a charity has been ordered to pay back £700,000 in profit. Architect Ian Brash, from Wallyford, East Lothian, admitted embezzling £358,832 from the Dr Robert Malcolm Trust between August 2010 and September 2014.

A non-binary person from El Salvador has been granted asylum in the UK in a first-of-its-kind ruling. Arthur Britney Joestar, 29, identified as a gay man when they arrived in the UK in October 2017 but came to identify as non-binary – i.e. neither a man nor a woman – after settling in Li

Drone owners must register their devices under regulations designed to protect privacy. New rules require all drones fitted with cameras to be logged with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

A lawyer has been imprisoned after exchanging hundreds of calls and messages with a prisoner via contraband phones smuggled into a jail. Dene McClean, 37, communicated with Jonathan Gomez on various illicit phones on more than 500 occasions, it was found.

Children, families and friends have had around 18,000 ‘virtual visits’ with prisoners in Scotland in the six months since secure online conferencing was rolled-out across the country. The introduction of virtual visits, alongside the provision of mobile telephone handsets with appropriat

A lawyer expects strong prices to continue as deals rise by half during Lindsays' busiest four months on record. The firm said Scotland’s property market remains robust after recording almost £100m-worth of sales in four months.

A former lawyer who used social media to report from Wuhan following the first outbreak of Covid-19 last February has been jailed for four years for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old human rights activist who was also detained in 2019 for speaking in support of anti