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Details of a proposed bill on housing will be published next week as part of a new 20-year route map for housing in the coming decades. Housing to 2040 – Scotland’s first long-term housing plan – aims to set the path for how homes and communities should look and feel in 2040.&

It is usually (but not always) a truism in the legal profession that what happens in London will eventually happen in Edinburgh. The most recent example of this is in relation to the way in which lawyers north of the border are entitled to charge for their work. For some time now, English lawyers ha

The critically endangered flapper skate is to gain further protection following the urgent designation of a new marine protected area (MPA) within the Inner Sound of Skye. The site will protect a nationally important flapper skate egg nursery area, which is the largest of its kind to be identified i

SEMLA has announced a work placement collaboration with NatWest Group. Between 12 – 16 April 2021, NatWest Group’s Outsourcing, Technology and IP (OT&IP) in-house legal team is offering two student members of SEMLA the opportunity to undertake a week of virtual work experience with t

A man who was sacked for sharing a leftover slice of pizza with his son on a business trip has been awarded over £150,000 by a court. Sydney man Greg Sherry was given permission to bring his wife and children on a trip to Melbourne, with his family members paying their own way.

Lawyers for Clara Ponsatí, the exiled Catalan politician, have vowed to fight on after MEPs voted to remove her immunity. Ms Ponsatí faces a charge of sedition for her role in Catalonia's independence referendum in 2017 and could now be extradited to Spain.

The advice that the Scottish government relied on to justify the ban on public worship will come under court scrutiny at a two-day hearing this week. The evidence which resulted in a blanket ban on worship in churches will be challenged when Canon Tom White, a Catholic priest from Glasgow, launches

Between December 2020 and February 2021, the average property selling price in East Fife, West Fife and Kinross was £218,393, up 11.9 per cent compared to the previous year, according to the latest data from ESPC.

TLT has appointed Peter McGladrigan as a legal director in Edinburgh. Mr McGladrigan, a solicitor advocate, is a leading financial services, commercial litigation and insolvency lawyer.

The nomination for Scotland’s new Biometrics Commissioner is set to be agreed by the Scottish Parliament tomorrow. Dr Brian Plastow, a former police chief superintendent and lead inspector for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, will become the first person to hold th

The Home Secretary has appointed lawyer Fraser Sampson as the government’s new independent Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner. Mr Sampson, who took up his post on 1 March, will promote compliance with the Surveillance Camera Code and rules on police use of DNA and fingerprints.

Lawyers who are physically disabled or have a chronic illness and are entering or who have successfully entered the legal profession are encouraged to participate in a new study. Dundee Law School PhD student Rachael Wallace is undertaking a study which aims to examine whether the Equality Act 2010

Any changes to the Human Rights Act 1998 could "significantly undermine Northern Ireland's unique constitutional settlement", The Bar of Northern Ireland has said. In its submission to the UK government's review of the law, it said it "would not support any amendments to the HRA as part of this revi

Justice must be done and seen to be done – but whose justice? That is the uncomfortable question Benjamin Bestgen examines this week. See his last jurisprudential primer here. It’s said that the creation of laws sometimes resembles sausage-making: you need a strong stomach if you re

President Joe Biden's two German shepherds have been sent home from the White House after biting a security guard. White House officials said three-year-old Major "was surprised by an unfamiliar person and reacted in a way that resulted in a minor injury".