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The third annual report of the Scottish tribunals has been published. The report covers the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. It details the work undertaken within the new Scottish tribunals structure.

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A non-binary barrister is thought to be the first whose name appears on a chambers' board with the title 'Mx', The Times reports. Oscar Davies, 26, who is biologically male, identifies as non-binary and prefers to be referred to with pronouns whose lexeme is 'they', but is also content with 'he'.

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A virtual conference is to provide a forum for discussion amongst interested parties about how civil business might be conducted once the pandemic is over. The Lord President has asked the Judicial Institute to organise a conference, to be held virtually, to provide a forum for a discussion amongst

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Wealthflow's Dr George Callaghan explains why you should add the special sauce of compounding to your financial diet. Imagine the scene: it’s January the second and you have made a resolution to make healthier meals for yourself and the family. After a bit of internet searching, you find spina

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Taiwanese officials are calling on people to stop changing their name to Salmon. The situation, dubbed "salmon chaos" by local media came about after Japanese chain Sushiro ran a promotion which ended on Thursday offering free food to any customer and five of their friends – if they changed th

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The President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has described as "idiotic" suggestions that the court should be stripped of its title and said that downgrading the institution would be an “act of national self-harm”. The UK government has been considering changing the court's name and cut

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Levy & McRae has announced a number of promotions. The firm has promoted to legal director: Sandra Biggart (private client/matrimonial), who trained with the firm in the mid-1990s and has spent most of her career there and Carol Boyd, (commercial litigation) who joined the firm in 2016 and

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Legislation has been passed giving more powers to police and courts to protect people at risk of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill aims to enable police and courts to ban suspected abusers from re-entering the home and from approaching or contacting the person at risk f

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The Law Society of Scotland and Scottish Legal Complaints Commission have clashed over the latter body's proposed budget. The society said that the SLCC is costing more for doing less and must address its rising inefficiency with urgency. Responding to the consultation on the SLC

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