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With the last echoes of the bells drifting into the distance, 2020 is firmly with us and it is time to get down to work. That might sound as though it is just another change of the calendar, but, for Scotland’s legal profession, this has the promise to be very much a year to remember. I know t

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) could be liable for as much as £10 million following a landmark decision at Edinburgh Sheriff Court this week in a case that may prove to be one of 'PPI for lawyers' and could lead to an avalanche of late payment claims from Scottish solicitors.

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Sheriff David Mackie, 66, has retired from the bench after 15 years at Alloa Sheriff Court. In an interview with the Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser, Sheriff Mackie reflected on his journey to the bench.

Andrew Ireland offers his personal insights on recent mediations in which he has been involved, contrasting them with his experience of pre-trial meetings in personal injury cases. Recent articles in Scottish Legal News by Julie Hamilton of MacRoberts, David Hossack of Morton Fraser and by the Vice

Dr Alistair Fraser has taken over as the new director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He has replaced Professor Sarah Armstrong, who has led the centre for the last three years.

The Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC, has stepped down after three-and-a-half years in office. Ms Grahame offered her resignation at the Faculty’s Anniversary Meeting, and arrangements for an election to choose her successor will be announced in due course.

A young entrepreneur who is helping homeless people across the globe has won a top award in honour of Scotland’s most famous bard. Dr Josh Littlejohn MBE won the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 2020 at a special ceremony in Burns cottage last night.

Lord Bracadale is to lead an independent public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh. The appointment of Lord Bracadale, a former Senator of the College of Justice, was announced by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.

The SYLA recently published the results of a survey on retention issues within the legal profession. Well done them. Much needed and with the number of responses received totally statistically significant. Seventy-seven per cent of responses were from Glasgow and Edinburgh and 11 per cent from Dunde

Digby Brown has helped secure £100,000 in compensation for a man who was wrongly arrested and sent to prison on remand after being mistaken for someone else. Gary Webb, 60, spent a night in the police cells and three in jail in 2015 even though he showed officers from Police Scotland evid

Margaret Taylor interviews Robbie Brodie of Livingstone Brown on his recent triumph at the Court of Session. When Lord Boyd of Duncansby ruled last month that an Ayr-based adult day care centre must remain open for the foreseeable future he delivered a victory not just to the father who had filed th

Lawyers have expressed dismay about the state of the legal job market in Scotland after a single legal traineeship attracted 120 applications. Glasgow-based firm Dallas McMillan sought a trainee earlier this month to begin in the summer.

So Brexit is done. My mother still recalls the news on 19 April 1945, sixteen days before the war’s end, that Germans had executed her grandfather in prison in Copenhagen for membership of the Danish Resistance. His daughter and son-in-law, my Danish grandparents, had themselves not long befor

The most senior family judge in England and Wales has appealed to law firms to make donations to a legal charity to help tackle delays in the family courts. Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, said that "modest annual contributions" to Support Through Court, a charity providing f