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This year’s annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland, takes place on Sunday, 27 September 2015 at noon. The Mass will be celebrated in St Mary’s R.C. Cathedral, Broughton Street, Edinburgh.

Alistair Carmichael MP Proceedings in the Election Court will be broadcast live for the first time after the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service reached an agreement with STV for the hearing to be streamed live on the internet.

A disabled woman who challenged a health board’s decision to cease providing homeopathic treatment has had a petition for judicial review dismissed.

Ross Yuill Defence solictor fees for the new Sheriff Appeal Court based in Edinburgh are so low that they are 'untenable' and will impede access to justice according to the Glasgow Bar Association (GBA).

Willie McIntyre Several readers have contacted SLN to raise their concerns about the utterly inadequate legal aid rates of pay proposed for the new Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh.

Eighty jobs have been saved but 42 lost following the news that McClure Naismith appointed administrators on Friday as it was no longer able to deal with its debt and other liabilities after years of declining revenues. The firm appointed FRP Advisory partners Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser, who also

Professor Lorne Crerar Harper Macleod has attracted five new partners among ten recruits from fellow Scottish firm McClure Naismith LLP, which entered administration on Friday.

Alison McInnes The Law Society of Scotland has backed calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland from eight to 12.

The United Nations (UN) are to investigate the UK government’s welfare reforms following a complaint that there had “grave and systematic” violations of disabled people’s human rights, it has been reported. Disability charity Inclusion Scotland said that they have been contacted by the UN Co

Sheenagh Adams St Kilda has become the first UNESCO World Heritage Site to be added to Scotland’s land register through keeper-induced registration (KIR).

An Aberdeen man who admitted taking a bus for a drug-fuelled joyride has been sentenced to prison for 33 months. Hans Reid, 26, told Aberdeen Sheriff Court that he took the Stagecoach vehicle from Aberdeen's main bus station in May.

Tim Farron Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has said he is confident that former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael will survive an upcoming legal challenge to his election in May.

Pictured (front-back, left-right): lawyers Jill Turner, Ysabelle Buckle, Louise Irwin, Lesley Rennie, Susie Lockhart, Catherine Wilson Empire HR has appointed Jill Turner from Pinsent Masons as a litigation expert, bringing the size of its team of lawyers to eight.

Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association has announced that Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC will deliver its Annual Lecture for 2015, in association with Scott & Co.

Seven men have been convicted of the sale and supply of drugs after a major police operation discovered a “drug empire” operated from a cell in HMP Edinburgh. Stephen Nisbet, 40, already serving an 18-year prison sentence for the murder of David James in 2003, was working with his brother James