Legal news
 
    Parking adjudicators to transfer to Scottish Tribunals
Consultation running on new draft rules
   
    Practice note extends affidavit guidance in family actions
Updated version builds on experience in defended actions
   
    Scots young carer grant benefit goes out to views
Ministers consult on policy and draft regulations
   
    Latest house transaction figures continue Scottish trend
Registers report July prices up; May volumes down
   
    Keep children out of court – but test their evidence: Faculty
Response to Vulnerable Witnesses Bill calls for informed challenge
   
    Vialex expands south of the border
Berwick office to assist growth in north of England
   
    "Same roof" rule to go in criminal injuries compensation review
Ministers seek to improve position of child abuse and terror victims
   
    Seven new solicitor advocates admitted
Court ceremony follows gaining of extended rights
   
    Hijab exclusion from court a human rights violation, judges rule
Human Rights Court finds restriction not justified by public order grounds
   
    Inksters adds Edinburgh base to growing network
Property lawyer Steven McDonald to head new office
   
    Human rights defenders deserve Nobel Prize: Faculty
Advocates back Peace Brigades International campaign
   
    One in three solicitors at risk of violence, survey finds
Assault, threatening behaviour or communications commonplace
   
    Faculty believes new support fund is helping diversity cause
Devilling interest leaps in wake of scholarship launch
   
    Bill to combat fuel poverty goes out to views
MSPs begin stage 1 scrutiny
   
    Ministers under fire for failing to launch Victim Surcharge Fund
£1m support fund still not operational nearly five years after Act
   
    MSPs seek evidence of Brexit negotiations impact
Committee invites views to inform ongoing scrutiny
   
    Two solicitor advocates among nine new QCs
James Cormack and Richard Goddard among those to achieve rank
   
    Human rights have made real difference over 20 years, Commission insists
Briefing to UK Parliament highlights benefits in many contexts
   
    Morton Fraser in private client deals with Addleshaw Goddard
MF focuses on tax and succession as property moves to Coulters
   
    Fife firms Morgans and Macbeth Currie in merger
Combined business to practise as Morgans
   
    Expansion drives DWF revenue growth
Turnover up 18% in year to 30 April
   
    Harper Macleod becomes STEP Gold Employer Partner
Recognition for standard of training and development
   
    MEPs approve controversial new copyright law
Campaigners vow to continue fight until final version settled
   
    Edinburgh bar pulls out of JP court duty scheme
Shortage of members and low legal aid rates blamed for decision