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The Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF) invites participants to join in the 2018 sponsored Edinburgh and Glasgow legal walks on Monday 1st October at 5:30pm. The annual 10km walk around the sights of Edinburgh and Glasgow take place after work and will raise funds for local legal advice charities to

The Scottish Legal Aid Board has successfully appealed against a judge’s ruling to reduce its decision to grant civil legal aid to a man who was seeking to challenge the lawfulness of a local authority’s determinations relating to the provision of community care services to his elderly a

Scotland will become one of the first countries to achieve a 100 per cent reduction in carbon emissions, Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has said. The new Climate Change Bill will immediately set a target of a 90 per cent reduction by 2050, which the UK Committee on Climate Change (UK C

The number of debt decrees registered against Scottish companies rose sharply during the first quarter of 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust. Registry Trust is a non-profit organisation which collects decree and judgment information from jurisdictions across the British Isle

Kathleen McAnea outlines why developers should review a recent case when procuring works and considering the extent of their design consultant’s liability. The limits of a lead consultant’s liability for a project were highlighted in a new Scottish appeal court decision wh

Insurance risk and commercial law specialist BLM has announced the promotion of 16 new partners, at the start of its 2018/19 financial year across five of its business streams, including claims solutions, large loss & technical, specialty & financial lines, healthcare and Northern Ireland. T

Paul Geoghegan writes about a question clients who hold, or are about to hold, shares in a company often ask. For those readers who are unsure about what a shareholders' agreement is, it is an agreement which sits alongside a company's articles of association and which is entered into by the shareho

Govan Law Centre's Mike Dailly will be the keynote speaker at the Scottish University Law Clinic Network annual conference, which has as its theme this year virtual pro bono and how it might be applied in the community. Mr Dailly told Scottish Legal News: “This event will provide a fantas

Via @edinhist: 20 years of fantastic collaboration between the Signet Library @thewssociety and @natlibscot marked last night as we pass from the Voyager online catalogue to a new Koha installation with @PTFSEurope: @GillHamilton @CarDocherty @hollycoulson_ @ToniMVelikova @kgbaston @ilaing14

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump cannot legally block Twitter users as doing so violates their First Amendment right to free speech under the Constitution, Reuters reports. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald did not order Mr Trump to unblock users but said she

The Sheriff Appeal Court has published a judgment in three test cases concerning the court’s approach in undefended actions under the simple procedure rules. The court allowed appeals by Cabot Financial UK Ltd against decisions to dismiss its undefended actions for payment, after ruling that t

A new project aims to identify and understand the factors that affect whether individuals who allege to have been raped or sexually assaulted choose to engage with the criminal justice process. Researchers at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) will also consider how the syste

An independent report detailing improvements to police phone call handling has been welcomed by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson amid renewed calls for a fatal accident inquiry into the tragedy that prompted the review. The report, published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary

Lawyers, advice agencies and all those with in an interest in the operation of simple procedure in the sheriff courts have until the end of this month to contribute to a review of the rules. A Scottish Civil Justice Council consultation, which seeks views on simple procedure – the rules and fo

Pinsent Masons has been appointed as a global strategic partner to FinTech Scotland and will sit on the board of the fintech sector enabler. Established by the Scottish government, the financial services sector and the University of Edinburgh, FinTech Scotland will formulate a national strategy and