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An advocate from Kenya who represents victims of police brutality, and sexual and gender-based violence has won the Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award. Janice Muchemi received the award at an event hosted by the Faculty of Advocates in Parliament House in Edinburgh yesterday.
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Tessa Till has been promoted to legal director at BBM Solicitors. She is a highly experienced private client specialist, advising on wills, succession and tax planning, trusts, executries, powers of attorney, and adults with incapacity matters.
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Shakespeare Martineau has announced 16 promotions, including one in Scotland. Dual-qualified legal director Nicky Grant, who is based in Edinburgh, has been promoted to partner and head of the commercial real estate team.
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Haseltine Lake Kempner has announced that Dr Lauris Kemp has joined the firm as a partner in its chemistry and life sciences team in Glasgow. As an experienced UK and European patent attorney, she holds a degree in immunology and biochemistry and followed this with a PhD and postdoctoral position in
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International legal and professional services firm gunnercooke has announced the addition of Ashley Cooke and Hayden Cooke, sons of founder Darryl Cooke, to its leadership team. Joining as chiefs of staff, the brothers' initial role will be to immerse themselves in the business and culture, driving
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Scullion LAW has promoted Stephanie Grieve from senior solicitor to associate director. Ms Grieve is a member of the firm's criminal defence team as well as a specialist in military law.
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McKee Campbell Morrison (MCM) Solicitors has appointed Nicola Ker as head of its private client department and to the firm's board of directors. Ms Ker brings a wealth of private client expertise, including on the creation and management of trusts, establishing family investment companies, administe
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Calls for the establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley will not be enough to solve the region's "legal aid desert", Scottish Legal News has been told. Earlier this week, a new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) raised co
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A charity has called for the urgent establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley after concluding that people in Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire are living in a "legal aid desert". A new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (
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Lawyers have accused the Scottish government of intentionally delaying action on legal aid until after next year's Holyrood election. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said the profession was being treated with contempt as it confirmed it will escalate its boycott of the government's su
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Family members involved in deaths in custody fatal accident inquiries (FAI) are to have immediate, free access to legal aid support and advice. Justice Secretary Angela Constance confirmed that she is using existing ministerial powers to remove means-testing for legal aid in such cases, so that from
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Defence solicitors are to boycott the Scottish government’s new Summary Case Management scheme in protest over legal aid fees. In the face of the Scottish government’s continued refusal to engage in meaningful talks with the profession, the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) "has
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A new University of Stirling academic journal dedicated to sharing research on human rights aims to influence policy and decision makers in the UK and worldwide. The University of Stirling Human Rights Journal (USHRJ) is the first of its kind in Scotland.
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The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security is to host a lecture by Sally Langrish later this month. Ms Langrish was appointed foreign, commonwealth & development office legal adviser (director general, legal) in May 2022.
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The Lawscot Foundation has opened applications to provide support for aspiring lawyers facing financial and other barriers to their legal studies and the profession. The charity is accepting applications from pupils who meet the eligibility criteria, including having an offer to begin a Scots law LL
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The rector of St Andrews University has won an appeal against her controversial exclusion from the university's governing body after she sent students an email condemning Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide. Stella Maris was dismissed from her roles as president of the university court and charity
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The University of Dundee's forensic science research hub is reportedly still under threat despite a new recovery plan which was said to rule out compulsory redundancies. The university has launched a "collective consultation" with staff of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, The Cou
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A raccoon named "Chewy" was caught by police with a meth pipe in his mouth after a traffic stop in Ohio. Springfield Township Police Department say they pulled over the car after the motorist was identified as having an arrest warrant and a suspended licence.
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A woman who was compared to Darth Vader at work has won nearly £30,000 from an employment tribunal. The NHS blood donation worker had temporarily left a room when her colleagues decided to take a personality quiz which would tell them what Star Wars character they were, the tribunal heard.
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Rebekah Vardy has been ordered to pay over £1.4 million in legal costs following her defeat in the "Wagatha Christie" court case. Mrs Vardy unsuccessfully sued Coleen Rooney after she publicly accused her of leaking details about her personal life to The Sun.
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A manhunt for a convicted killer came to an embarrassing end after his jailers realised they had forgotten him at a courthouse for at least 12 hours. Officials at Clayton County jail in Jonesboro, Georgia ordered a lockdown and search after they could not find 70-year-old Julian Brooks Deloach.
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A man has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds in costs after losing an appeal over a £200 fine for his noisy cockerel. Neighbours of 80-year-old Hampshire man Harold Brown complained of being woken up at 5am by his cockerel crowing, the BBC reports.
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