Skip to content
Law Society of Scotland
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
Search
Find a Solicitor
Contact us
About us
Sign in
  • For members

    • For members

    • CPD & Training

    • Membership and fees

    • Rules and guidance

    • Regulation and compliance

    • Journal

    • Business support

    • Career growth

    • Member benefits

    • Professional support

    • Lawscot Wellbeing

    • Lawscot Sustainability

  • News and events

    • News and events

    • Law Society news

    • Blogs & opinions

    • CPD & Training

    • Events

  • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying and education

    • Qualifying as a Scottish solicitor

    • Career support and advice

    • Our work with schools

    • Lawscot Foundation

    • Funding your education

    • Social mobility

  • Research and policy

    • Research and policy

    • Research

    • Influencing the law and policy

    • Equality and diversity

    • Our international work

    • Legal Services Review

    • Meet the Policy team

  • For the public

    • For the public

    • What solicitors can do for you

    • Making a complaint

    • Client protection

    • Find a Solicitor

    • Frequently asked questions

    • Your Scottish solicitor

  • About us

    • About us

    • Contact us

    • Who we are

    • Our strategy, reports and plans

    • Help and advice

    • Our standards

    • Work with us

    • Our logo and branding

    • Equality and diversity

  1. Home
  2. News and events
  3. Blogs & opinions

Blogs & opinions

You are currently filtering for:
  • Posts in: September, 2016
clear filters

No test of necessity to apply in refusing contact

28th September 2016
Inner House refuses to interfere with sheriff's decision

Holiday leave refused where risk of children not returning

28th September 2016 | family-child law
No adequate safeguards if removed to Algeria

Pre-matrimonial assets as special circumstances

28th September 2016 | family-child law
Case also discusses needs justifying periodical allowance

Court sets out threshold test for permanence order

28th September 2016 | family-child law
Legislation criticised as sheriff's decision upheld

Contact restoration outweighed by mother and child's opposition

28th September 2016 | family-child law
Indirect contact allowed though direct not in best interests

Private sector removings not subject to ECHR: Supreme Court

15th September 2016 | human rights | Housing
New ruling states Parliament has set balance of rights

Housing (Scotland) Act 2014… the changes are coming!

15th September 2016 | Housing
Work in hand for commencement through 2017 into 2018

Letting agent pleads guilty under Unfair Trading Regulations

15th September 2016 | consumer , criminal law | Housing
Landlords held to be “consumers”, opening door to further cases

Does a registered social landlord need a PSC register?

15th September 2016 | corporate | Housing
Different rules apply to companies and registered societies

Letter: Balanced approach?

14th September 2016 | client relations , law society of scotland
Client balances: does the Society apply different rules to itself regarding members' money?

£42.20: four more years

14th September 2016 | criminal law , law society of scotland
Will the Society now stand up for legal aid practitioners?

Art of the possible

13th September 2016 | europe , government-administration
This is a time for our Governments to be realistic in their expectations – and for lawyers to flag up where plans may disrupt the smooth running of international agreements

Additional

Categories

  • Equality and diversity
  • opinion
  • practice management
  • law society of scotland
  • executries
  • tax
  • mental health-adult incapacity
  • trusts-asset management
  • employment
  • europe
  • civil litigation
  • professional regulation
  • family-child law
  • criminal law
  • information technology
  • careers
  • reparation
  • human rights
  • property (non-commercial)
  • consumer
  • licensing
  • commercial property
  • planning/environment
  • insolvency
  • immigration
  • government-administration
  • welfare/benefits
  • client relations
  • education-training
  • interview
  • dispute resolution
  • corporate
  • agriculture-crofting
  • reviews
  • banking-financial services
  • intellectual property
  • New lawyers
  • Business support
  • Law Society news
  • Non-regulatory committees
  • Regulatory Committee
  • Career growth
  • International
  • Schools
  • Wellbeing
  • Member benefits
  • Professional support
  • Research and policy
  • In-house lawyers
  • Regulation
  • For the public
  • Legal aid
  • obituary
  • Public Policy Committee
  • Sustainability
  • Professional support
  • Wellbeing

News Archive

  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
    • January
    • February
    • March
    • April
    • May
    • June
    • July
    • August
    • September
    • October
    • November
    • December
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
Law Society of Scotland
Atria One, 144 Morrison Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8EX
If you’re looking for a solicitor, visit FindaSolicitor.scot
T: +44(0) 131 226 7411
E: lawscot@lawscot.org.uk
About us
  • Contact us
  • Who we are
  • Strategy reports plans
  • Help and advice
  • Our standards
  • Work with us
Useful links
  • Find a Solicitor
  • Sign in
  • CPD & Training
  • Rules and guidance
  • Website terms and conditions
Law Society of Scotland | © 2025
Made by Gecko Agency Limited