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Plans from the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to increase its annual levy by eight times the rate of inflation have caused unprecedented “anger and frustration” within the legal profession, the Law Society of Scotland said today. In its detailed response to the SLCC’s draft budget

Briony Clarke A 31-year-old woman has become the UK's youngest ever female judge just 16 years after beginning her law career, The Telegraph reports.

Gillian Craig Gillian Craig, partner and head of property litigation at MacRoberts has been named the new chair of the Scottish branch of the Property Litigation Association (SPLA).

A law firm that dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria is to close its doors after the senior partner announced his retirement, The Herald reports. Graham and Finlayson has occupied the same offices in Comrie Street, Crieff, Perthshire, since 1885.

Member states may reserve to notaries the power to authenticate signatures appended to the documents necessary for the creation or transfer of rights to real property, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. This requirement contributes to guaranteeing the legal certainty of real prope

Brodies LLP has been named “Scotland IP Firm of the Year” at the Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards in London for the fourth consecutive year, while Marks & Clerk has been awarded the accolade of “Scottish Prosecution Firm of the Year”. Brodies partners Robert Buchan and Gill G

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Caroline Loudon TLT continues to grow its licensing team with the arrival of Lindsays head of licensing & gambling Caroline Loudon. Ms Loudon’s arrival at the firm comes shortly after that of licensing solicitor, Michael McDougall, who also joined from Lindsays. Both will work out of TLT's Gla

Caroline Gardner A project to build a national IT system for Police Scotland followed good practice in its early stages but ultimately collapsed due to a "damaging loss of trust" between those involved and fundamental disagreements about what the programme needed to deliver, according to an auditor�

Peter Grant Hutchison In this year's SLN Annual Review, Terra Firma’s Peter Grant Hutchison looks back at the year in employment law, from the controversial Trade Union Act 2016, with its 50 per cent timeout requirement to the application of the Equality Act at the European level. In Dansk Industr

A man who claimed that a Scots lawyer who acted for his wife in a divorce action marketed the estranged couple’s property for sale without his consent has failed in an appeal against a tribunal’s decision to dismiss his complaint against the solicitor. The Inner House of the Court of Session rul

Figures released today by Registers of Scotland (RoS) show a 3.3 per cent year on year rise in property sales across Scotland, with 99,860 total sales. RoS’ Annual Market Review 2016 found that the last calendar year was a relatively stable period for the Scottish residential property market, comp

An assault case has been referred to the High Court of Justiciary by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission as a possible miscarriage of justice. In accordance with the commission’s statutory obligations, a statement of reasons for its decision has been sent to the High Court and Crown Offi

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Martin Sloan Martin Sloan explains why data risk compliance should be at the top of the boardroom agenda.