Legal news
Legal aid for bin lorry victim families in private prosecution bid
Ministers allow public funds for bereaved and driver in High Court hearing
LBTT supplement bill passes final Holyrood stage
MSPs defeat 14 day grace period for main home movers
Better control of "arm's length" council bodies needed, MSPs report
Committee wants "more hands-on" approach to reflect public need
Call to criminal lawyers to aid forensic evidence research
Views sought on empirical evidence against professional experience
Scottish house sales in 2015 at highest level since 2008: Registers
Calendar year statistics show 4.5% increase
House movers should not be caught by "second home" tax: Society
Concern that proposed grace period not long enough
Director appointment and promotion at Blackadders
Gillian Gibson joins firm as Ellen Eunson advanced
Stagecoach tax avoidance scheme defeated in HMRC challenge
Intra-group loss-creating transactions held ineffective
Guarantors lose challenge to mine restoration bond notice terms
Argument rejected that successive notices required
Summer 2018 target date for Inverness Justice Centre
Justice Secretary announces timetable as funding confirmed
Competition body halts fake online review operation
Marketing company to take steps to remove false postings
Proposed simple rules could be simpler, Faculty claims
"Risk of confusion" from some proposed terms
Lord Coulsfield dies after short illness
Judge devised reparation action procedure and sat in Lockerbie trial
Ministers boast majority female appointments to public boards
Number exceeded men for first time in 2015
Family partner hire at Anderson Strathern
Janice Jones joins from Harper Macleod
Senior associate promotion at WJM
Advancement for John Grant in conflict resolution
Foundation calls for better human rights protection in Scotland
Government should be "more proactive" in making rights relevant
Council tax bands to be adjusted, but ministers shy off wider reforms
Properties from bands E-H will pay higher rates; freeze to end
University mourns a foreign-born friend of Scots law
Aberdeen tributes follow death of David Carey Miller
Vice Dean stands up for defence counsel against Carloway comments
Judges and Faculty should work together to uphold standards: Jackson
UK Government backs off from changes to freedom of information
Review concludes Act "working well"
SSDT annual report records 25 misconduct findings
Practice rules and CML Handbook breaches predominate
Douglas Alexander to be strategic adviser to Pinsent Masons
Former minister to advise clients on Brexit referendum
Timing announced for air weapons licensing scheme
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