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This week the Inner House of the Court of Session ruled on a case concerning Relevant Person status in the Children’s Hearings System. Clan Childlaw represented a 14-year-old girl who had initiated proceedings by requesting a pre-hearing panel to remove Relevant Person status from both her materna

In its recently published Banking Deals Review 2016/17, Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance practice has reported a strong twelve months of business. The past year has seen the firm’s finance lawyers' work on 144 deals worth £93.4 billion. Among the team’s clients in this area are b

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The Scottish Sentencing Council has produced a series of videos explaining how judges decide sentences as well as which sentences are available in Scotland. The resource follows the court case of "Jack" who has caused alarm in a nightclub and assaulted the steward.

Lord Neuberger has explored the different approach adopted by the courts towards former spouses on one hand and former cohabitees on the other in a lecture given by the President of the Supreme Court to the family law ‘At a Glance’ conference held in London towards the end of last month. Lord Ne

The outdated law of wills needs overhauled according to the Law Commission of England and Wales.The independent body said that Victorian laws, out of step with the modern world, are failing to protect the vulnerable – and not allowing others to distribute their property upon death. The Law Commiss

A man who took his employer to court after it said it would not pay the spouse’s pension to his civil partner in the event of his death has had his appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court who found a provision of the Equality Act 2010 incompatible with EU law. John Walker, the

Jillian Merchant gives SLN readers an overview of the Taylor report. The report was commissioned in October 2016 to look into “Employment Practices in the Modern Economy”. The review was chaired by Matthew Taylor, CEO of the Royal Society of Arts and former political advisor to Tony Blair.

Two businessman found guilty of extortion following a violent assault and abduction who claimed that the trial judge’s speech to the jury had been “unbalanced” in favour of the prosecution have had their appeals against conviction dismissed. Refusing the appeal, the Appeal Court of the High Co

Michael Matheson A new strategy which aims to create safer communities across Scotland has been unveiled by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson.

Hamilton Burns employees are expected to receive full wages, holiday pay and pension contributions owed to them after the firm ceased trading at the end of May. Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser of FRP Advisory were appointed joint administrators of the Glasgow law firm after it was unable to service de

A woman who challenged a ban imposed by three Belgian municipalities on wearing clothing concealing the face in public suffered no discrimination, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of Dakir v Belgium the European Court of Human Rights held, unani

The Scottish Council of Law Reporting has announced that six new law reporters have been added to the Session Cases® team of law reporters led by Julius Komorowski, advocate, as editor. Craig Findlater, Jacqueline Fordyce, Leigh Lawrie, Mark Mohammed and Giles Reid are all practising advocates.

Lawyers at Thorntons will take part in a 24-hour Relay for Life challenge and a gala weekend packed with activities in Arbroath this September to mark a year of fundraising within the community for Cancer Research UK.

Aimee Godfrey, a trainee at Brodies, was presented with a cheque by Millar & Bryce after winning the Diploma Conveyancing Award at Dundee University.​