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Greg MacDougall reflects on access to justice and looks at the past, present and future of the resolution of claims in Scotland The promotion of access to justice for the resolution of claims in a fair and balanced way is an admirable aim. How should we gauge access to justice?

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCCW) has announced the retirement of partner Stewart Smith following a career at the company spanning three decades.    Mr Smith joined the firm in 1990, and was named partner just a year later. During his time at RCCW, he has worked on all types of l

The Herald has published a full obituary of Roy Martin QC, who passed away last month at the age of 69. Lord Woolman told The Herald: “Roy was a man with a brilliant legal brain and a powerful and independent mind. As an advocate he had the knack of having the ‘ear of the court’ -

The UK's largest digital rights conference is coming to Scotland on 26 October.

A solid gold toilet worth £4.8 million has been stolen from Blenheim Palace. Two days after the artwork went on display at the Duke of Marlborough's country home, burglars broke into the palace and ripped it from the wall, leaving in their wake “significant damage and flooding”.

The Prime Minister’s advice to HM The Queen that parliamentary business at Westminster should be suspended for five weeks in the run up to “Brexit” undermined a “central pillar” of the constitution that the Government was accountable to Parliament. The Inner House

A special power of the Court of Session has been brought to bear on Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally and could allow the Clerk of Court to sign in his place – forcing him to extend Article 50. Dr Stephen Thomson, the leading authority on the nobile officium, which al

The High Court in Belfast has dismissed three conjoined applications challenging the UK Government’s Brexit strategy, which the applicants argued would result in a no-deal Brexit and a hard border in breach of the Good Friday Agreement. Finding that the subject matter of the applications was "

The Scottish Prison Service faces profound challenges in continuing to run Scotland's overcrowded prisons safely and effectively. A report by the Auditor General for the Scottish Parliament says the service's revenue budget reduced by 12.5 per cent in real terms between 2014/15 and 2018/19, from &po

Lindsays has announced that Emma McGinley and Claire Brown have successfully qualified and joined the firm's dispute resolution and litigation team (Glasgow) and family law team (Dundee) respectively as newly qualified solicitors. During their two-year traineeships they have gained experience workin

We have an old scrapbook of newspaper cuttings in the records of the Faculty of Advocates, the independent body of lawyers admitted to practise as advocates in Scottish courts. One, from 1919, about the possibility of the legal profession being opened to women, catches the eye. A representative of t

Neil Kelly looks at the Inner House's treatment of a case on collateral warranties that caused surprise last year. At the end of last year a judge in the Court of Session reached what many regarded as a controversial decision on the interpretation of a Scottish collateral warranty in the context of

Newly-declassified cables provide further details of the torture two men – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah – were subjected to by the CIA during interrogations UK security services were aware of and sometimes supplied questions for. “Rule out nothing whatsoever th

Lifetime savings made by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) as part of its programme of reform have plummeted by £172 million to £2.1 billion as it reduces the scope of its plans. It is also not clear any savings it has made are a result of its reforms, according to the National A

Harper Macleod has agreed a deal to renew its sponsorship of Glasgow Warriors until 2021, which will see the firm's name adorn the Harper Macleod West Stand and the Harper Macleod Club Deck at Scotstoun Stadium. The firm has been part of the Warriors setup since 2015, and will once again be a promin