Legal news
 
    Tribunals took wrong approach to asylum seekers' faith claims: Inner House
Too much weight placed on falsity of evidence on other matters
   
    Solicitor joins listening body for child abuse victims
Moira Ramage one of three appointed to National Confidential Forum
   
    Doubts raised about "prisoners in court in underwear" report
Police claim unable to check for accuracy in advance
   
    Bar to unmarried claiming widowed parent allowance breaches ECHR
Supreme Court allows mother's appeal in Northern Irish case
   
    Car clamping raises fines collection rate as new arrangements bite
Courts' link with DVLA raises risk for non-paying motorists
   
    DLA Piper appoints Edinburgh construction director
Ross Campbell joins from Eversheds Sutherland
   
    Faculty welcomes family case management plans, with reservations
Response challenges some proposals for child cases
   
    Judge allows asbestos claim against employer's discharged executor
Case law supports action to establish claim against estate
   
    Society denies criminal legal aid link to trainee court plans
Earlier admission not a response to issues over low rates: President
   
    Deadline approaches to join OPG professional guardianship scheme
Eligible firms must apply by 21 September
   
    First Scottish acquired by US concern
Eli Global buys out search and support firm
   
    Further fall in cases raised follows civil courts reform
Nearly all categories show fewer actions in 2016-17
   
    Code of practice, and public education, needed for new organs law: Faculty
Stage 1 submission sees deficiencies in Human Tissue Bill
   
    Ministers stall on railway policing merger with review of "further options"
Practical obstacles bedevil Scottish Government's integration plan
   
    Small firms given chance to promote trainee places
HM Connect to take stands at two law fairs
   
    Surveyors warn of online home report scams
Old reports being doctored and passed off as new
   
    Prices up but volumes fall again in latest house price figures
June prices and April volumes show Scots market stronger than UK's
   
    Prosecutors given £3.6m to fund extra staff
Up to 140 to be recruited to cope with caseload
   
    Drive to boost employee ownership through new leadership group
Ministers aim to quintuple worker-owned businesses by 2030
   
    Second Balfour+Manson solicitor becomes APIL fellow
Ian Nicol joins David Short to become third in Scotland
   
    Scots law governs claim though asbestosis developed in England, judges rule
Place of delict remained place of deceased's work
   
    GSPC goes into liquidation after losses continue
Properties now being marketed by Edinburgh counterpart
   
    Proof allowed in ex-fiscal's claim based on work stress
Judge rejects Lord Advocate's attempt to have case dismissed
   
    Real burdens reform difficult but necessary – Faculty
Response queries how to draft law to cover all types