News

12496-12510 of 24191 Articles
bto
Clock icon 2 minutes

BTO has announced the appointment of senior associate Morven Douglas and solicitor Brittany Thomas to its family law team. Ms Douglas, an accredited specialist in family law and a trained collaborative lawyer, has practised exclusively in the field of family law for 16 years.

Clock icon 2 minutes

A consultation has been launched on modernising the law around judicial factors to bring clarity, accessibility and efficiency to an important but outmoded area of the law. A judicial factor is a person appointed by the court to hold, manage, administer and protect property in circumstances where it

Clock icon 4 minutes

Charles Livingstone and Douglas Waddell look at the recent phenomenon of crowdfunding litigation. Litigation can be expensive, time-consuming and open-ended. As anyone who has ever pursued or defended a court action knows, it’s impossible to guarantee how long the process will take or how much

Clock icon 3 minutes

Scotland is considering the creation of a dedicated sexual offences court, a judge has said. Lord Matthews said in a speech at the Third International Advocacy Conference in Nottingham that a judge-led sexual offences review group is considering the measure.

Clock icon 2 minutes

A legal bid to stop Serco’s eviction of asylum seekers in Glasgow will return to the Court of Session today as an appeal into a ruling that the housing provider’s lock-change policy was not unlawful gets under way. Home Office contractor Serco was forced to temporarily pause it

Clock icon 1 minute

The Faculty of Advocates is launching a new diary and case management system, which will have benefits for advocates and instructing solicitors. The system, Lex, allows advocates and their clerks to better manage the full life cycle of an instruction, from initial meeting or telephone call to conclu

12496-12510 of 24191 Articles