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Richard Susskind In this year's Annual Review, assistant editor Kapil Summan speaks to legal and business technologists Richard and Daniel Susskind about the ideas in their new book, The Future of the Professions.

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has given SLN the following response to yesterday's report from the Law Society of Scotland calling for an "urgent overhaul" of the current legal aid system. Today’s Times article on the Law Society of Scotland’s report on the financial health of firms doing

The family of a Turkish businessman who was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK have successfully challenged a decision by the Home Secretary to refuse their applications to stay in the country. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the Secretary of State for the Home Department was wr

Emma Carmichael

Scott Manson

An appeal against a provision of immigration entry rules requiring non-EEA applicants to have a specified minimum income by an applicant who failed to meet this requirement has been unanimously allowed by Justices in the Supreme Court on the basis of extreme interference with family life while four

Glen Gilson Gilson Gray has doubled the capacity of its centrally located Edinburgh office after rapid growth in its first three years.

Just Employment Law has recently made two new additions to its growing Glasgow team – Amanda Deeley and Angela Strzyzewska. Ms Deeley (pictured right) is a respected employment lawyer having qualified in 2006. She brings to Just Employment Law a wealth of experience in employment law and HR – fi

Final year law students Ruby Davies, Christiane Schleich, Christie Allan and Blythe Petrie have been selected to represent the University of Dundee in this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. Each year, teams from all over Europe compete in national rounds. The winning team fr

Linda Klein Donald Trump’s first draft budget includes a proposal to scrap the Legal Services Corporation, a body which provides legal aid funding to around 2 million poor Americans each year.

A woman who was left permanently disabled after sustaining a “profound and irreversible” brain injury during her birth has had an appeal to amend her claim against a health board refused. A judge had refused to allow a minute of amendment after proof but before issuing his judgment on the merits

Eilidh Wiseman

James Wolffe QC In this year’s SLN Annual Review, Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC addresses concerns expressed by the current Dean of Faculty, Gordon Jackson QC, that the Crown Office has become too closely aligned to the perspective of victims of crime.

Sally Morris-Smith Shepherd and Wedderburn partner, Sally Morris-Smith, will step down as the chairman of the South East branch of Women in Property (WiP) at the end of this month. Having served a successful one-year term, Ms Morris-Smith will introduce incoming chairman, Marcia Gillings from the Lo

Mary Munro Mary Munro and Cyrus Tata of Strathclyde University Law School's Centre for Law, Crime & Justice have secured funding for a programme of public events on "Developing Restorative Justice in Scotland".