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Dear Editor, Alan Adam objects to your publishing an article by Douglas Cusine about the legal mechanisms for handling complaints about MSPs and ministers because it criticises “individuals of only one political persuasion”. But the lid of your tin says “Legal News” and nothi

Dear Editor, I for one welcome the views of Alan Adam along with those of Douglas J. Cusine about issues which are undoubtedly political, but no less important or relevant to our profession and wider society.

Rodney White suggests that Westminster and Holyrood should "step up to the plate" and fund infrastructure specifically for housebuilding projects. "Build back infrastructure" is not as snappy or alliterative as the build-back-better mantra favoured by politicians who believe that post-Covid-19 there

The Catholic priest in a legal battle to overturn the Scottish government’s ban on public worship has joined a similar court action led by leaders from other faith groups, represented by double silk Aidan O’Neill QC. Canon Tom White, whose St Alphonsus parish is in the Calton area of Gla

The Faculty of Advocates has announced a new scholarship as it opens this year’s applications for financial grants. The Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) is providing £5,000 for a scholarship to support devilling, which will be administered by the Faculty in tandem with its o

Harper Macleod has been awarded the Promoting Diversity - Large Employer of the Year Award at the Scottish Apprenticeship Awards.

NQ Solicitor career talk (with G2 Legal and Addleshaw Goddard), Tuesday 16 March, 12:30pm  Following the success of the Scottish roadshows last year, we are delighted to be partnering with G2 Legal and Addleshaw Goddard again this year to provide this virtual NQ career event. 

The University of Strathclyde Law Society is hosting a series entitled What can I do with my Law Degree? – designed to showcase the careers available to students studying law and to which all students are welcome. The next event in the series takes on Wednesday 10 of March at 6pm. Student

Law firms have been advised to embrace IT and flexible working in order to cope with the pandemic. The sixth annual salary guide into Scotland’s legal and financial service sectors from Core-Asset Consulting is a review of current salary levels and a guide to the major issues that professional

A council is checking its CCTV footage following reports that a large section of pavement was stolen from a village in West Sussex. Numerous paving slabs went missing in Storrington this week, much to the confusion of locals.

A sheriff in Glasgow has removed the parental rights of a convicted rapist in respect of his son and determined that it would not be in the best interests of the child to have any form of contact with him while still allowing him to have letterbox contact with his daughter. Proceedings for contact w

Few will have envied James Wolffe QC the position he has found himself in as Lord Advocate during recent Holyrood events. This week he found it necessary to powerfully reassert the independence of the Crown Office in the wake of a call made by Labour’s new Scottish leader, Anas Sarwar, for the

In light of recent events at Holyrood that have prompted the Lord Advocate to assert the independence of the Crown Office, Scottish Legal News is asking readers if it is time for the office of Lord Advocate to be reformed? Do you think the Lord Advocate's role should be split into two new ones funct

A new advocate has spoken of the difficult position he and his cohort have found themselves in over the past year and has called on government to widen the ambit of financial support schemes. Jon Kiddie joined the Faculty of Advocates last year, along with 25 others in what was one of the biggest in

The president of the Law Society of England and Wales is stepping aside less than halfway through his one-year term due to the re-emergence of allegations of misconduct, which he denies. The High Court in London ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) was wrong to dismiss a complaint b