Regulation Of Lawyers

A new report from a cross-party committee of MSPs has shown how Scottish government plans to try and control the way the legal profession operates were wrong and risked undermining the rule of law, the Law Society has said. The news comes as this week the SNP's John Swinney took lawyers because they

Proposals to reform how legal services are regulated in Scotland have been backed by a majority of MSPs on Holyrood’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill sets out a modernised regulatory framework, which any firm that provides

The Law Society of Scotland has signed up to an international declaration on protecting the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession. The move follows the organisation’s warnings about new proposals to reform regulation of legal services, which could see unprecedented direct inte

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has backed a new report on the regulation of legal services south of the border. The review by Stephen Mayson, honorary professor of law at University College, London, said a single regulator should regulate all providers of legal services.