Legal news
Call for evidence issued on FAIs bill
Justice Committee tasked with considering reforms
Brodies picks up another UK award
"UK National/Regional Law Firm of the Year" title at Legal Business Awards
Penrose inquiry finds only limited fault with blood services
State of knowledge did not permit virus screening much earlier
Gillespie Macandrew confirm Glasgow office opening
Buchanan Street premises to launch next week
Society and Faculty call for better client confidentiality protection
Professional bodies' consultation responses call for stronger safeguards
All PC renewal to be online from this year, Society confirms
Nine week window to operate from late August
Peers voice concerns over UK implications of Smith measures
Constitution Committee report calls for proper consideration
Former judge Lord Prosser dies
Senator from 1986 to 2001 was previously Dean of Faculty
Five Scots among Pinsent Masons partner promotions
Scottish partner strength now more than 70
Stage 1 report published on air weapons and licensing
Holyrood committee supports general principles of bill
Who'd want to be a criminal legal aid lawyer these days?
Matthew Thomson, solicitor and legal aid policy officer at the Law Society of Scotland, looks at the challenges and motivation for today’s practitioners
MPs criticise draft of new Scotland Bill
The Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee say draft clauses for a new Scotland Bill are not credible
Factor's registered notice did not prevent time bar: Inner House
Court also rules that services claim prescribes after five years
Fatal accident inquiry bill published
Proposals implement remaining Cullen review recommendations
Solicitor struck off for scheme to obtain early legal aid payments
Dishonesty of invented outcomes demonstrated lack of fitness
Improvements needed in Holyrood bill processes, MSPs say
More clarity needed at successive stages: committee report
Justice Committee supports early release restriction bill
Stage 1 report seeks assurances on rehabilitation and supervision
DAC Beachcroft appoints Scottish regulatory head
Criminal lawyer Colin Bissett joins team
Supreme Court upholds welfare benefits cap
Majority rejects discrimination challenge by single parent mothers
Malone joins international arbitrator panel
SAC chairman invited to New York based global body
Society welcome for gender pay publicity law
New provision requires large employers to reveal differentials
Faculty committee to add focus on rule of law
Dorothy Bain QC to chair reconstituted body
Dumfries solicitor jailed for embezzlement
Steven Crommie given 12 months for taking £13,000
Jury manual is only guidance: appeal court
Appeal allowed where insufficient directions given on jury's question