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The Scottish government's proposed new law on information sharing on named persons will not proceed. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Deputy First Minister John Swinney also announced that the mandatory named person scheme for every child – enshrined in the Children And Young People

MSPs on Holyrood's Economy Committee have backed plans to limit ministers' access to statistics. At present, ministers and their staff can see market-sensitive data a day before it becomes public while they can see less sensitive publications five days before the public.

Robert Gordon University graduate Jamie McGill and University of Glasgow graduate Corinne Skelton have commenced their two-year traineeships with Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP. They will be assisting the team of solicitors and represent road users – motorcyclists, cyclists and

Proposals to change the way national and local elections are run in Scotland will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. The proposals in the Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill would extend the time between elections to the Scottish Parl

The number of judges at the General Court of the European Union will increase next week when the court welcomes seven additional judges. The swearing into office of the seven new judges next Thursday will mark the third and final stage of European judicial reforms approved in 2015.

Should period products be freely available by law across Scotland? That is the question being posed by Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee. The committee is considering a bill which would ensure everyone in Scotland who needs to use period products can obtain them free of cha

The murder of Dutch lawyer Derk Wiersum has been condemned as "an unacceptable attack on the legal profession" by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Mr Wiersum, 44, was the lawyer for a key witness in the prosecution of alleged gangsters accused of committing five murders betwee

US President Donald Trump has said the cost of running Guantanamo Bay is "crazy", following a New York Times report that estimated the bill for the prison camp at $13 million per detainee per year. Trump told reporters: "I think it's crazy. It costs a fortune to operate." He added that his administr

A Crown Court case collapsed after a woman accidentally joined the jury, The Telegraph reports. Judge Jonathan Seely at Chelmsford Crown Court said he had never seen anything like it in his career.

A Zimbabwean asylum seeker whose human rights claim to remain in the UK was refused by the Home Secretary has had an application for judicial review of a decision that he had not made a fresh claim to remain in the country dismissed. The petitioner “GC” argued that, as an “openly g

The UK government has said it may seek to prorogue Parliament again if the Supreme Court rules against it in the ongoing Brexit cases. A written submission explaining what the government would do if it loses the litigation has been published.

Thorntons has appointed 14 new trainee solicitors – its largest-ever single intake.

Sean White of Allan McDougall Solicitors comments on the issue of sanction for counsel in an opposed motion hearing before Sheriff Liddle. Carlo Capuano -v- William Gannon (PN1959-18)9 th September 2019 Opposed Motion Hearing before Sheriff LiddleRobin Cleland, Adv on instruction by Allan McDougall

A BBC article published at the end of last month highlighted a recommendation made by lobbyist group Greenpeace to introduce a national agency to enforce building standards in Scotland. The organisation believes that a centralised compliance system is required to ensure building standards are met by

The average price of a property in Scotland in July 2019 was £153,968 – an increase of 1.4 per cent on July in the previous year – the latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland rose by 0.7 per