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A Scottish university student, who is on track to achieve her ambitions of becoming a lawyer after being awarded a Lawscot Foundation bursary, hopes more young people will be given the same opportunity. Chloe Fraser, a second year law student at the University of Edinburgh, shared her story as the L

An architecture student at Edinburgh University has won the Scottish Land Commission’s national student award for 2021. Final year student Harry Whitmore will use the £1,000 award to undertake research into urban development and the role of community arts organisations to focus and drive

Keith Brown MSP is Scotland's new justice secretary, having replaced Humza Yousaf who has been promoted to health secretary. Mr Brown, who is depute leader of the SNP, was economy, jobs and fair work secretary between 2016 and 2018.

A group of business and legal bodies representing Scotland, Europe and the US have urged caution towards the introduction of US-style ‘opt-out’ class action lawsuits in Scottish courts. The Scottish Chambers of Commerce, European Justice Forum, BritishAmerican Business and the US Chamber

Glasgow legal practice Lynch & Co. has been acquired by Elaine MacDonald, a former associate at Austin Lafferty Ltd. The new firm, MacDonald Lynch, has three former employees and a consultant from the original office. Colin Carr will also join the new operation.

Defence lawyers around the country downed their gowns yesterday in protest against the Scottish government's refusal to promptly disburse payments from its resilience fund. The Scottish government has only paid out £2.3 million of the £9m fund and less than a third of firms that applied

Clyde & Co has announced the promotions of Alison Tyler and Ann Bonomy to legal directors in Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively as part of its 2021 promotions round. Ms Tyler qualified with the firm in 2011. She is part of the firm's catastrophic and large loss team and specialises in defending

Mike Dailly, solicitor advocate at Govan Law Centre, has called on the Scottish government to extend the Covid eviction ban in his latest Glasgow Times column. Mr Dailly said there is a "common misconception" that eviction protections last until September.

Back in March 2020, when the world turned upside down, whilst we started panic buying toilet roll, washing our hands singing Happy Birthday, doing Zoom pub quizzes and our daily Joe Wicks workouts, another strange phenomenon materialised: Spaces for People. The Scottish government and Sustrans initi

UKELA Scotland has announced two new online events for its 2021 calendar. The first is a lunchtime talk by Ben Christman on 24 June 2021. Mr Christman has been appointed as the first in-house solicitor for the new Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS).

Vialex has signed the Mindful Business Charter, joining a wide range of businesses and professional service firms around the world in a collective commitment to address the avoidable stresses in our working practices and to promote healthier and more effective ways of working. The charter, originall

Defence lawyers around Scotland have gone on strike today after last-minute talks with the Scottish government to obtain additional payments from its resilience fund failed. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association held talks with Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf over the remainder of the fund yesterda

The Scottish government has made a conscious decision to deprive the legal aid system of funding. The number of lawyers able to service the scheme is dwindling. Wooed by COPFS or simply unwilling to be the sticking plaster in a broken system, they have left. As lawyers strike today, solicitor advoca

While remote hearings have proven useful over lockdown, they should not supplant in-person justice, says Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC. When lockdowns were first imposed in Scotland, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service – despite what might fairly be said to be years of under-funding &

Aberdein Considine has made a raft of senior promotions across the organisation.  The firm has promoted a total nine members of staff to director, senior associate, associate and senior solicitor levels, as well as appointing two new partners.