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Visa applicants will be forced to pay to contact the UK Visas and Immigration service by email, the Home Office has announced. The fee changes come as private company Sitel UK takes over customer service enquiries for the government service.

James Wolffe QC A Scottish government strategy to help train professionals to spot the signs of human trafficking and provide new powers to disrupt trafficking activity has been published.

Lord Neuberger President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger (pictured), has called for the compulsory judicial retirement age of 70 to be abolished.

Jennifer Wilkie Brodies has expanded its family law team with the appointment of Jennifer Wilkie as an associate.

Elspeth Paget The number of adults in Scotland registering a power of attorney (PoA) has fallen significantly according to figures obtained by Gillespie Macandrew from the Office of the Public Guardian.

Research has found only a small number of barristers want to change their business model or the way they receive instructions. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published a report on the provision of legal services by barristers, based on an online survey conducted in September-October 2016.

Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC has succeeded in the Inner House, where he represented multiple claimants backed by the GMB Union in a challenge to the “pay protection” arrangements introduced by Glasgow City Council on the introduction of its Workplace Pay and Benefits Review (WPBR) in

Provision of Approved Premises for former prisoners constitutes direct discrimination against women which is unlawful unless justified, justices in the Supreme Courthave ruled. Lady Hale, Lord Clarke, Lord Wilson, Lord Hodge and Lord Toulson unanimously allowed the appeal to the extent above. Lady H

Alan Inglis The President of the Family Division of the English High Court, Sir James Munby has given his second judgment in two important cases concerning Scottish children placed for adoption in England.

A seriously injured former police officer has had to drop her compensation case and cannot afford to raise fresh proceedings after the presiding sheriff’s conflict of interest was only realised three days into the case. Lynsey Henderson, 43, who served as a policewoman for 18 years suffered seriou

24 – 25 July Scotch Whisky Association and others (Appellants) v The Lord Advocate and another (Respondents)

Michael O'Flaherty EU countries must act to protect fundamental rights from attack, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has said in its 2017 report.

Pat Gray A north-east law firm is marking twenty years in Cults this June as part of its year-long 175th anniversary celebrations.

Andrew Langdon QC Women barristers are up in arms over a plan to introduce night courts – which they say will make them work antisocial hours, The Times reports.