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Faculty welcomes bill bringing damages reforms
Periodical payments power "long overdue"
Faculty welcomes family case management plans, with reservations
Response challenges some proposals for child cases
Further fall in cases raised follows civil courts reform
Nearly all categories show fewer actions in 2016-17
Judges should be careful praising party litigant's opponents: Inner House
Imbalance of compliment and criticism can affect perception of fairness
Party litigants asked for views on simple procedure
Questionnaire published for SCJC research into experiences
Scottish courts consult on British Sign Language plan
Proposed six year programme goes out to views
Commons report attacks UK Government's legal aid reforms
Call for independent review similar to Scotland's
Tram contractors lose appeal to prevent inquiry releasing "sensitive" data
No prima facie case made of commercial sensitivity
Court overrules decision on invalidity of unsigned citation
Defect capable of being cured through dispensing power
Solicitors' civil court fees to rise
Act of Sederunt provides for 5% increase from 24 September
Simple Procedure Rules amended from end of this month
Time to pay application among changes introduced
Prescription (Scotland) Bill approved at stage 1
MSPs promise further debate on council tax and benefit recovery
SLC consultation process queried as committee backs Prescription Bill
Stage 1 evidence throws up new issues from welfare rights sector
Judge refuses CJEU reference in Brexit revocation challenge
Lord Boyd declines to seek ruling on "hypothetical" issue
Growing demand shown by Supreme Court's annual report and accounts
More applications for permission from home and overseas
SCJC opens family action case management consultation
All actions proposed to come under new structure
Pointless to appeal sheriff's rulings on children's hearing decisions: SAC
Appeal judges say better course to seek three month review of decision
SLAB wins appeal against quashing of legal aid grant
Grounds of appeal did not require to be disclosed
Simple procedure does not change approach to undefended cases: appeal court
Sheriffs wrong to challenge relevancy and specification of debt claims
Tram contractors fail to halt inquiry publishing "sensitive" documents
Interim suspension refused of ruling based on public interest
Trainee's credibility not at stake so as to justify counsel
Sanction refused in damages claim that settled for £5,000
Civil Litigation Expenses Bill given final Holyrood approval
Sheriff Principal Taylor's recommendations about to become law
Supreme Court sitting opens in Belfast
Two discrimination-related appeals to be heard
Supreme Court vetoes insurers' bid to bypass protocol legal costs
Solicitors could enforce equitable lien under English law