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Dozens of solicitors gathered outside Holyrood yesterday to demonstrate their deep dissatisfaction with the Scottish government’s inaction to reform legal aid.Ken Dalling, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: “This crisis has been a generation in the making and the system is

Harper Macleod has expanded its business development team with the addition of experienced solicitor Laura Meldrum. Ms Meldrum, who until recently was a senior solicitor in the employment law team at Anderson Strathern, joins the firm as a business development associate.

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace private client partner, Amy Watson, has joined the management committee of the Society of Advocates, Aberdeen. Ms Watson joins an established management committee, including her RCCW colleague, consultant Anne Boyd.

Model al­lows ten­ants to pay a monthly fee to a third party which gives land­lord writ­ten guar­an­tee in­stead of the cash de­posit, says Fin­lay Camp­bell. For years it’s been the case that where a tenant of commercial premises, especially if they are

Nominations are now open for solicitors hoping to join the Law Society of Scotland’s decision-making body, representing the Greenock, Kilmarnock and Paisley constituency. The previous Council member, Waqqas Ashraf, resigned his seat after setting up his own practice in the Glasgow constituency

The Faculty’s very own fictional advocate makes his return this Christmas in The Scotsman in Edward Kane and the Innocent Railway.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence in a drink driving case to the High Court of Justiciary. On 25 October 2020, Anita Frame pled guilty to a contravention of section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

A man who allegedly presented a fake arm for a Covid-19 vaccination in a bid to get a vaccine passport is facing possible criminal charges. Anti-vaxxer Guido Russo, a 57-year-old dentist in the northern Italian city of Biella, had previously been suspended from work for failing to get vaccinated.

A woman who was convicted of sending offensive messages to her MP has lost an appeal by stated case against the trial sheriff’s decision to repel a no case to answer submission under section 160 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. Vaiva Sutinyte was convicted of an offence unde

The UK government has proposed a bill that would function as a vehicle for changing the law around judicial reviews when it dislikes the findings of judges. The Interpretation Bill, devised by Attorney General Suella Braverman QC and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, is preferred by Downing Street and

Middle-class drug users could lose their passports or driving licences as part of a new UK government strategy on drugs. The news comes as it was reported that traces of cocaine were found in 11 bathrooms in Parliament.

It was reported this week that Alice Sebold, author of the Lovely Bones amongst other works, had issued a public apology for her part in a miscarriage of justice that led to Anthony Broadwater spending 17 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. But could this miscarriage of justice have

The cases of sub-postmasters in Scotland who may have been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office over its faulty computer system have been referred for review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The SCCRC announced last year that it was investigating the issue in Scotland. It h

The payout to the family of Lamara Bell has taken place — at long last. David Nellaney, the solicitor for the family, with proper professional restraint, described the delay on the part of Police Scotland as ”unfortunate". Rather the whole thing, to me, is a disgrace. The deaths of Lamar

A new edition of Representing Yourself in the Scottish Family Courts, Shared Parenting Scotland's user guide for party litigants in child contact court cases, has been published. The 3rd edition of the guide has been updated to cover recent changes in the law and court rules including the workings o