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The UK government has been advised by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it can use anonymised mobile phone data in order to track people who have COVID-19. Deputy commissioner Steve Wood said in a statement: “Generalised location data trend analysis is helping to tackle the coro

The Lord President, Lord Carloway has published short statement intended to offer general advice to parents and carers whose children are the subject of orders made by a court relating to parental responsibilities and rights, for example in relation to contact or residence.

Aisha Anwar has been appointed sheriff principal for the South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway Sheriffdom and will take up her appointment on Wednesday. Sheriff Principal Anwar, who replaces Sheriff Principal Abercrombie, was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen on the recommendation of the First M

Bellwether Green has announced the appointment of Fran Ennis as head of litigation and regulation. Joining after 12 years at Pinsent Masons, Ms Ennis has acted on behalf of an extensive range of commercial clients from international hotel chains, major sporting institutions, banks and insolvency pra

The Scottish government has fleshed out the details of its plans to give private and social tenants increased protection from eviction ahead of the emergency legislation being introduced at Holyrood tomorrow. The Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill will increase the minimum notice period for private an

The UK's wrongful trading law will be suspended to allow businesses to "weather the storm" of the coronavirus pandemic, business secretary Alok Sharma has announced. The change, backdated to apply from 1 March 2020, will allow directors of companies to pay staff and suppliers even if the compan

Victims of crime struggling financially amid the coronavirus pandemic will be able to access assistance worth up to £3,000, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. A victims’ fund of £100,000 will help meet immediate financial needs of victims, paying for a wide range of good

On 26 March 2020 the Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (WTCA Regulations) were made, coming into force with immediate effect. These regulations affect rights of workers to carry over holidays which they were unable to take due to coronavirus, writes Annika Neukirch. Previo

Shaun George explains how arbitration can help ease the strain of the pandemic on family law. Family law arbitration has, to date, struggled to gain traction as a dispute resolution option given the very effective specialist family law courts in some sheriffdoms and an excellent and well-managed fam

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has published new guidance on interim payments for practitioners. From 1 April interim payments can be submitted for A&A (incl. ABWOR), fixed payments and for summary (non-fixed payments incl. summary appeals) accounts during the current crisis.

Kirstie Ann Duncan, HND legal services student at City Of Glasgow College, has won the F&C Investment Trust Prize. The prize aims to showcase students' financial knowledge by offering inventive ways to close the UK's financial knowledge gap.

Sarah Ward, a senior associate at Newcastle law firm Samuel Phillips, has published some 'ground rules' for her daughters during lockdown.

Following the postponement of ICCA Edinburgh due to COVID-19, ICCA and the Scottish Arbitration Centre have announced that the next ICCA Congress will take place from Monday 1 to Thursday 4 February 2021 in Edinburgh. ICCA president, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, said: “We are delighted that we w

The Netherlands has been ordered to pay compensation to the families of 11 men who were shot dead by Dutch soldiers in Indonesia in the 1940s. Human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld took the Dutch state to court in The Hague on behalf of eight widows and three children, The Guardian reports.

A priest has been reassigned to a remote monastery after Russian security officials discovered a drug lab at his house. FSB officials raided the St Petersburg flat, registered in the name of 44-year-old priest Maxim Mitrofanov, as part of a corruption investigation.