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Party cannot choose to vary motion timetable: sheriff
Closing for Christmas break no excuse for lateness

Tayside extends child welfare hearing webex pilot
All courts to attempt remote hearings during spring

Hearing could place 17 year old in secure accommodation
Court holds judicial review proceedings incompetent, and unfounded in law

Courts open, but COVID rules must be observed: Carloway
Lord President issues video reminder not to let observance slip

Amended court rules cover post-Brexit transition issues
New rules concern choice of court, insolvency proceedings and other matters

Sheriff courts all using virtual platform from today
Civil case WebEx capability rolled out across Scotland following civil pilots

"Year of two halves": Carloway's annual opening address
Courts and tribunals "will not return to the way things were"

Online simple procedure mandatory from 1 December
Sheriff must grant permission if exemption claimed

Annual report details SCJC projects and priorities
Litigation funding and group proceedings among the priorities in 2019-20

Litigation Act prompts revised scheme for advocate fees
Speculative fee changes reflected in revisions to scheme

Protective expenses refused in referendum power case
Action for declarator of Holyrood powers did not meet common law criteria

Group proceedings rules come in from 31 July
"Opt in" actions under Civil Litigation Act given go-ahead

Appeal not suspension the remedy for non-party to award
Court holds appeal by body not party to dismissal claim would be competent

Lord President issues new warning on jury trials
Praise for progress on remote courts, but "major problem" ahead with trials