Legal news
MPs criticise draft of new Scotland Bill
The Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee say draft clauses for a new Scotland Bill are not credible
Factor's registered notice did not prevent time bar: Inner House
Court also rules that services claim prescribes after five years
Fatal accident inquiry bill published
Proposals implement remaining Cullen review recommendations
Solicitor struck off for scheme to obtain early legal aid payments
Dishonesty of invented outcomes demonstrated lack of fitness
Improvements needed in Holyrood bill processes, MSPs say
More clarity needed at successive stages: committee report
Justice Committee supports early release restriction bill
Stage 1 report seeks assurances on rehabilitation and supervision
DAC Beachcroft appoints Scottish regulatory head
Criminal lawyer Colin Bissett joins team
Supreme Court upholds welfare benefits cap
Majority rejects discrimination challenge by single parent mothers
Malone joins international arbitrator panel
SAC chairman invited to New York based global body
Society welcome for gender pay publicity law
New provision requires large employers to reveal differentials
Faculty committee to add focus on rule of law
Dorothy Bain QC to chair reconstituted body
Dumfries solicitor jailed for embezzlement
Steven Crommie given 12 months for taking £13,000
Jury manual is only guidance: appeal court
Appeal allowed where insufficient directions given on jury's question
Four English judges go for using work IT for porn
Three sackings and a resignation for "inexcusable misuse"
Scotland should make refugees welcome: Lord Advocate
Support offered for work to help integration and inclusion
Court reporting restrictions rules about to change
Media given right to be heard before any order made
Optimism growing in Scottish profession, Society survey finds
61% now report confidence in the future for solicitors
Five new partners among Harper Macleod promotions
Partnership strength now 62 as seven advance
Survey points to further changes in Scottish legal scene
Better fee income, but further mergers and insolvencies predicted
Pre-recorded witness interviews should be evidence: report
SCS Evidence and Procedure Review calls for new trial procedures
Stronger controls needed on email surveillance, MPs report
Committee calls for new offence for abuse by GCHQ
Swinney promises new property information hub
"One enquiry" system to deliver comprehensive information
Judge entitled to find bank in breach of loan promise: Supreme Court
First instance decision restored in claim for loss of profit
Doctor-patient relationship under strutiny following Supreme Court ruling
Firm calls case ‘the most significant medical negligence judgment in 30 years’