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Almost 80 per cent of Scottish solicitors and accredited paralegals feel that gender equality has improved in the legal profession over the past five years. The Profile of the Profession survey published today by the Law Society of Scotland, questioned over 2,700 solicitors, trainee solicitors and a

The UK government has published its full legal advice on the draft Brexit deal after government ministers were found to be in contempt of Parliament in an historic first. The government had failed to publish the advice of Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC in spite of a binding vote to that effect by

A number of enhancements for users involved in simple procedure litigation are being introduced to the Civil Online system on 13 December 2018. The Court Document Display and Electronic Notification changes will mean that Civil Online users will be able to open, save and print a range of court-gener

TLT has appointed Damien Bechelli as corporate partner in Glasgow, who joins from DWF. Mr Bechelli specialises in providing corporate and commercial advice to a range of local, national and international clients including PLCs, investment funds, financial intermediaries and owner-managed businesses.

Balfour and Manson has announced the appointment of medical negligence lawyer Kiera Dargie as senior associate. Ms Dargie joins the firm from the Medical Protection Society where she was medical negligence litigator within its Pathway 4B team. As part of this, she represented doctors in So

The Scotsman has published an obituary for Professor Alan Watson, the renowned legal scholar who passed away last month at the age of 85. "One of the outstanding legal scholars of the last hundred years, Alan Watson was recognised around the world. With his death we lose yet another link that took u

Murdo MacLeod QC has been shortlisted by Legal 500 in the category of Scottish Silk of the year. He has been recognized following appearances in the Queensferry Crossing FAI, the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry and FAIs into the deaths of a prisoner and a care provider.

The Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) has published a student edition of its monthly legal journal with the support of the Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland. The edition, which is accessible free of charge for all law students in Scotland, contains a host of information ab

Four Latvian men have been sentenced to a total of 19 years and eight months for serious and organised crime offences. Hardijs Langsteins, 37, Maris Kursis, 30, Arvids Civkors, 30, and Aivars Dzagarjans, 38, were all convicted of agreeing to become involved in serious and organised crime by doing th

People will be able to participate in court hearings via their smartphones, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon explained the move would allow people on low incomes access to the justice system, The Times reports.

A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to the town hall.

Today, Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona released his 26-page Opinion on the question whether the UK can revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU. His view is that the CJEU should decide that it can and that it should declare that Article 50 of the Treaty

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

A woman found guilty of assaulting another woman to her severe injury and permanent disfigurement by repeatedly punching and kicking her on the head and body after the jury deleted from the libel the words “and strike her head against vivarium and repeatedly strike her on the body with glass&r

Professor Steven Peers of University of Essex School of Law explains and comments on today's opinion from Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona on the revocability of Article 50. Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to c