Legal news
 
    Solicitor wins Supreme Court appeal against lender duty ruling
"Not reasonable" for creditor to rely on misstatement regarding discharge
   
    Society welcomes review call for new legal aid approach
"Much to support" in report, but some caveats
   
    Legal aid review calls for "fundamentally new approach"
Ministers' response to be published "in due course"
   
    Commission publishes law reform annual report for 2017
"Productive" year saw three reports and bills
   
    Is simple procedure working, SCJC asks?
Consultation opens on experience to date
   
    Jennifer Henderson to be next Keeper of Registers
Career civil servant has wide executive experience
   
    Further fall in prosecutions last year, official figures show
Most types of crime down, with 8% drop overall
   
    Harrington succeeds Brown as BLM senior partner
Board member elected to three year term from 1 March
   
    Ministers to push ahead with court fee rises
Minor changes only despite consultation objections
   
    Lawscot Foundation wins European silver
Student support fund recognised in European Association Awards
   
    Appeal court rejects separate divorce treatment of house and land
Ownership separate from whether property was matrimonial
   
    Scotland's new third party rights contract law comes into force
Act simplifies and restates common law
   
    Ministers confirm 50p minimum alcohol price plan
Proposal to be put to MSPs ahead of 1 May start date
   
    Sharp rise in Scots human trafficking cases uncovered
Majority of victims men as labour exploitation dominates
   
    Advice services need better planning, review finds
Recommendations made for providers, funders and policy makers
   
    Judge says divorce should be annulled – but lets parties negotiate
Three months to sort out property issues where wife remarried
   
    Management of Offenders Bill begins Holyrood journey
GPS and other monitoring technology to be permitted
   
    Thorntons makes senior appointment to Montrose office
Graham Taylor joins from Dundee practice
   
    Homicide, family law and personal injury in Commission's Tenth Programme
Law reform body announces agenda for next five years
   
    Air travellers warned over unpaid fines checks
Defaulters risk arrest at airports
   
    Senior banking lawyer joins Shoosmiths in Edinburgh
Liana Di Ciacca hired from CMS as senior associate
   
    No dramatic impact from stop and search changes: interim review
Report on first six months suggests more effective use of searches
   
    Report seeks to enable jury service despite sensory impairments
Courts working group supports reasonable adjustments and measures
   
    Police can be liable for investigation failures, Supreme Court rules
Two of John Worboys' victims had case under Human Rights Convention