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Only specialist legal software supplier with offices in all four countries of the UK LEAP, the world’s leading cloud software provider for small law firms, announces it has relocated its offices in Edinburgh to larger premises to accommodate a team which has expanded from seven to sixteen during t

A team from Shepherd and Wedderburn will be sleeping out in Festival Square on 3 November 2017 to raise money for the Rock Trust.Partners Patrick Bell and Fiona Buchanan, associates Peter Alderdice and Neil Campbell, solicitor Lucy Mulreany and business development executive Hazel Thomson will be s

Rollos Law LLP and well established Glenrothes based law firm Brady Legal have announced their merger that took effect on 1st November 2017. Combining highly skilled resources, the merged practice, trading as Rollos, will offer a comprehensive legal service for private and business clients.Ken Smit

A prisoner who is seeking to challenge a decision to the effect that he would not progress to the open estate but had yet to be granted permission to proceed has had a motion to allow a minute of amendment dismissed as “incompetent”. The petitioner was seeking to amend the petition to bring his

More work is needed to address judicial diversity and issues with recruitment that threaten the UK’s world-renowned legal systems, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned today. The committee states in a report today that It is deeply concerned about the dispute between the UK governm

Fern Mapp Digby Brown Solicitors has successfully settled all its civil claims following the Clutha helicopter tragedy.

Members of the Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) are to enjoy free contempt of court cover provided by senior members of the Faculty of Advocates as part of their membership. This means any GBA members who find themselves in possible personal contempt of court situations in the course of their professio

An Irish man who claimed his conviction for selling drugs was unfair as it was based on evidence obtained by police entrapment has had his application unanimously declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights, which concluded that the role of the police in the case had been essentially

Scots law academics have published a free ebook on studying EU law in Scotland before and after Brexit. The first edition of Studying EU Law in Scotland during and after Brexit, edited by Professor Nicole Busby and Dr Rebecca Zahn and produced In collaboration with the Scottish Universities Legal Ne

David Strang Too many people are being given short prison sentences which do not deter reoffending, Scotland’s chief inspector of prisons has said in a new report.

Brian Inkster Brian Inkster writes on a legal battle between lawyers and AI.

Michael Matheson A new code of practice on police searches for assets related to criminal activity has been published for consultation ahead of legislation taking effect in the spring.

The grandparents of a child who was placed in local authority care have failed in a legal challenge against a decision to refuse their application to be kinship carers. A judge in the Court of Session refused a petition for judicial review brought by “TM” and “PM”, who claimed that The Highl

A prisoner who complained he was not provided with appropriate rehabilitation courses has had his appeal unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who held that he suffered no violation of his article 5 rights and that domestic interpretation of article 5(1)(a) ECHR should be consistent

The Scottish Civil Justice Council has published a report on the consultation on the draft rules for Protective Expenses Orders. The report summarises the proposals and provides an analysis of the key issues arising from the responses.