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Legal: Beneath the Tweets
Our monthly column from Law Society of Scotland director Neil Stevenson explains the stories behind some of his tweets
Legal: Monitoring new ideas in offender management
Electronic monitoring (“tagging”) has been available for offenders in Scotland since 2002, but it could – and should – be used far more creatively and effectively than it has been.
Legal: Keeper of the key closes Herculean chapter
When the Faculty of Advocates agreed to take on the task of cataloguing the 9,000-book library of its most celebrated member, Sir Walter Scott, the actual work fell to Lindsay Levy.
Legal: Presidential potential that’s more than sum of his parts
There’s a broad appeal to the Law Society of Scotland’s Bruce Beveridge, finds John Forsyth
Pinsent Masons launches Vario scheme in Scotland
IT IS not exactly hiring by the hour, but Pinsent Masons is about to launch its Vario scheme in Scotland, in which it will act as an agency bringing together self-employed lawyers with companies or agencies with a specific project to complete or hole to fill.
Is there a future for i-witness testimony?
THE value of bringing eight sectoral continuing professional development conferences under the same Murrayfield roof last week was the chance to observe how similar the pressures – and the search for solutions – are in every specialist area.
Family law cases set for radical overhaul
LORD Brailsford told an audience of family lawyers last week: “In a recent Hague Convention child abduction case, one of the parties, a party litigant, was in Melbourne, Australia.
Employment law: The issues in a sector that never stands still
SINCE the revived Scottish Parliament came into existence in 1999, it seems as though we have had nothing but a constant upheaval in the laws of the land.
Regulatory red tape tightens for employers
THE regulatory burden on Scottish employers is increasing its stranglehold.
John Fotheringham: Scotland’s laws of marriage remain wedded to the past
THIS month is the seventh anniversary of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which, it has been said, abolished the old Scots form of common law marriage.
Last post: advocates think outside the box
A part of Faculty of Advocates history disappeared over the weekend with the rows of advocates’ boxes in Parliament House being emptied, locked and designated henceforth as decorative rather than functional.
2 commentsDevil in detail as independence debate gathers pace
Whichever side of the argument you are on, it is surely welcome in the independence debate that attention is beginning to focus sharply on what may happen after any yes vote in next year’s referendum.
1 commentReforms ensure it isn’t only insurers set to make gains
The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates claimed on these pages that it is not obvious who would benefit from the change to the “privative limit” proposed in the Scottish Government’s draft Courts Reform Bill (March 4).
‘Gender never mattered a whit’ in driving Brodies’ common purpose
If two individuals can share a single look of polite tolerance it was evident in one of the Atholl Crescent conference rooms of Brodies last week.
Non lawyer wanted for Law Society
THE Law Society of Scotland is looking for an enthusiastic non-solicitor to join its Regulatory Committee.
Scots law convention to bring profession together
ANY “national convention”’ sounds impressive. The first ever “Scots law national convention” appears even grander. Five hundred or so lawyers are expected to attend Scots Law 2013, over and 9 May at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.
Scottish Parliament slapped down over law of land
LAST week the Supreme Court reminded the Scottish Parliament of the limits of its powers to legislate.
Moves to drag sex abuse law into the 21st century
RECENT cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse have turned the legal interpretation of “vicarious liability” into one of the more quickly evolving areas of the law.
Elizabeth Davidson: QC or not QC is the question
SIGHS, sobs and the sound of furious scribbling may be emanating from the Faculty of Advocates as you read this. The silk round is under way.
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SNP urged to rebel over plans to close courts
SNP politicians have been urged to reject the justice secretary’s plan to close courts throughout Scotland by voting against him in the Scottish Parliament.
3 commentsPublic opinion sought on court closure proposals
COMMUNITIES are being invited to share their views on proposals to close ten sheriff courts and seven justice of the peace courts in Scotland.
1 commentHealth and safety prosecutions ‘taking years’
HEALTH and safety prosecutions are taking years to complete, and getting even longer, an inspector has warned.
Legal: Top judges understand the internet? That really is news
To the relief of internet users, the UK Supreme Court this month ruled that opening a newspaper article via a website link is not a breach of UK copyright law and no licence is required.
Legal: Actions appear at odds with the act
There has been a rash of negative press coverage for betting shops over recent months, primarily as a result of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling against particular gaming machines known as FOBT (fixed odds betting terminal).
Legal: Court shorts
A LIGHT GRILLING The significance of the date was not lost on prosecutor Bruce Erroch, as he introduced a police witness to the jury. “You used to be a constable with Northern Constabulary but on April Fools’ Day that all changed, didn’t it?” he asked.
Commonwealth Law Conference: Altogether better
The Commonwealth Law Conference (CLC) is an odd thing, much as the Commonwealth itself is. The Commonwealth is a hotch-potch of nations of wildly different sizes, economies, states of political and jurisprudential development.
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