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An election for the office of Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates has been won by Ruth Crawford QC, the first woman to hold the post. Ms Crawford topped a poll in which Lisa Henderson QC, and Vinit Khurana QC, also stood as candidates.

The Scottish Law Commission has published a discussion paper reviewing cohabitation law in Scotland. While the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 gives cohabitants statutory rights where none previously existed, there have been changes in society and in attitudes to relationships and families in Scotlan

SSE has appointed a new legal panel following a review which began in September 2019. The appointment of the new panel follows SSE’s increased alignment of its wider business strategy to focus on low carbon assets and infrastructure and delivering a low carbon future. SSE’s original lega

Sheriffs, summary sheriffs and lawyers at Glasgow Sheriff Court are to stop routinely wearing wigs and gowns in civil proceedings. Practitioners should hang up their court dress from March 2, a practice note from the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin states.

New hearing facilities for the additional support needs jurisdiction within the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland in Glasgow were formally opened yesterday by May Dunsmuir, Chamber President of the Health and Education Chamber and the Minister for Children and Youn

Laura McBrien has been appointed director of the diploma in professional legal practice at Edinburgh Law School. Prior to joining the law school, she worked in a number of different roles in professional legal education at BPP University in London, most recently as programme leader for the graduate

Police recorded 60,641 incidents of domestic abuse in 2018-19 – a two per cent rise on the previous year, new figures show. Levels of domestic abuse recorded by police in Scotland have remained relatively stable since 2011-12, with around 58,000 to 61,000 incidents each year.

A successful young solicitor from Ayr who was due to be sentenced for a driving offence has sadly died. Kay McFarlane, 34, was to be sentenced at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last Thursday after having crashed her car at Crosshouse Hospital last summer when she was over the drink-drive limit.

From "parking fines" to "post-mortems", it is "all in a day’s work" for procurator fiscal depute Karon Rollo, who visited Kilgraston School to explain her role to pupils. Speaking as part of Kilgraston’s Women and Business series, Ms Rollo gripped her audience, of Upper Fourth and Lower

A respected dance school is facing a lawsuit from a student who says she sustained injuries after being made to lift a "significantly" heavier partner. Charlotte Vanweersch, 26, claims that the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds was negligent in pairing her up with the other woman.

A Nigerian national who lodged a human right claim to remain in the UK with members of her extended family has successfully challenged a decision to refuse her application to appeal. The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) rejected the petitioner’s claim that she had developed

Custodial sentences for periods of 12 months or less have fallen to their lowest point since the introduction of a presumption against short sentences. The scheme – which the Scottish government has named 'PASS' – resulted in the lowest number of custodial sentences in November and Decem

MacRoberts has won a place on the highly competitive legal panel for SSE plc. SSE opened the tender for its legal panel roster in September of last year and 40 firms applied to take part in the procurement process. Following extensive review, MacRoberts joins Dentons, DLA Piper, and TLT as new panel

"It is as if the prorogation order had never existed", Elaine Motion, chairman of Balfour and Manson, told SLN on the day the Inner House ruled in Cherry that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful. Last year saw Scotland's legal system come under the world

The Scottish Law Commission’s Annual Report 2019 outlines progress on the commission’s law reform work during 2019. The report explains the progress made on implementation of the commission’s recommendations, outlines the commission’s work to promote law reform and contains a