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A House of Lords committee has called on the UK government to make legislation easier to understand, among other recommendations. The Constitution Committee in a report published today focuses on the preparation of legislation before it enters Parliament. The committee says that better policy prepar

Lord Hodge Expert evidence in civil cases was the subject of a lecture by Lord Hodge earlier this month at Middle Temple.

A woman who challenged a sheriff’s order to appoint a local authority social worker as her brother’s guardian has had her appeal against the decision dismissed. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused the appeal after rejecting the appellant’s argument that the mental health officer wh

Michael Matheson Domestic abuse figures published today show there were 58,810 incidents in 2016-17, up one per cent from 2015-16.

Yousif Ahmed A Scots lawyer is calling for an end to a loophole in the law that allows one parent to remove their child from Scotland without the consent of the other.

A new exhibition by National Records of Scotland brings you face-to-face with Scotland’s criminal past – from an infamous murderer to con artists, pickpockets and petty thieves.

Councillors have given planning permission in principle (PPP) for the new HMP Highland, a "state of the art facility" that will be the first new prison in the north of Scotland for more than a century.

Seventy per cent of Scottish law firm leaders believe that technology will have the greatest impact on their client relationships in the next five years compared with 40 per cent in the rest of the UK, according to a report published by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP. BDO’s Law Fir

Litigants who were seeking to enforce an award of payment from a court in Belgium will have to seek an alternative remedy after the registration of the judgment in the Court of Session was cancelled due to a “lacunae” in the law. A judge allowed an appeal against the grant of warrant for registr

Graham Ogilvy SLN editor Graham Ogilvy ponders the seemingly intractable problems in recruiting new judges to the Scottish judiciary.

Lord Carloway SLN’s report earlier this year that Scotland’s judiciary is facing a recruitment crisis has been confirmed in a survey which found that 60 per cent of senior lawyers had no interest in joining the bench.

An aim of sparing child and other vulnerable witnesses from having to appear in court has been supported by the Faculty of Advocates as “logical and sensible”. The Faculty said that a scheme to pre-record the evidence of such witnesses, if carried out effectively and to required standards, would

A Scot in Dubai sentenced to three months' imprisonment for public indecency has been exonerated by special order of the country's ruler. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum exonerated Jamie Harron, 27, whose case has now been dismissed and sentence nullified.

Pictured (L-R): Cameron Milne and Aaron Doran

A new project which aims to help rural businesses and communities to tackle difficult issues and decisions will be launched with a programme of meetings across communities in the north and west Highlands this month.