The Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules Amendment) (Drug Dealing)Telecommunications Restriction Orders) 2017 makes provision for applications for drug dealing telecommunications restriction orders and for the variation, extension or discharge of such orders. It comes into force on 19 January 2018.

The Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules Amendment) (Transfer from Lands Tribunal for Scotland) 2017 makes provision for cases transferred from the Lands Tribunal for Scotland to the sheriff court under the Electronic Communications Code (Jurisdiction) Regulations 2017. It comes into force on 19 January 2018.

The responses to the Council's consultation on the Review of Fees in the Scottish Civil Courts have now been published on our website.

This Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 Amendment) (Sittings of the Court) 2017 sets out when the Court of Session sits and comes into force on 1 January 2018.

New Rules setting out when the Court of Session sits will come into force on 1 January 2018.

This Act of Sederunt amends the Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules) 1999. It makes provision for applications connected to illegal working compliance orders under the Immigration Act 2016 (c.19) to be made by minute in the process of the original order, and comes into force on 1 December 2017.

The November edition of the Council newsletter, Update, is now available.

The Council has published its Report on the consultation on the draft rules for Protective Expenses Orders.

Rules coming into effect in November 2017 will make new provision for applications under section 19(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (applications for expenses out of the Legal Aid Fund).

The Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules Amendment) 2017 amends the Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules) 1987 in relation to applications under section 19(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986. It comes into force on 13 November 2017.