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Scottish businesses who breach fire safety laws are more likely to face tougher sentencing after a case in which the owners of Cameron House Hotel were fined £500,000 and a porter narrowly escaped a jail term. Sheriff William Gallacher confirmed that in dealing with the tragic circumstances of

A lawyer at Harper Macleod has told SLN of her passion for hockey and how confidence on the ice translated to success in law. Kate Gillies is a solicitor and the legal content writer for HM Connect, Harper Macleod's support and referral network for high street and rural law firms.

Aberdein Considine has made a number of promotions across the firm. Six lawyers have been promoted to the position of senior solicitor in addition to a promotion to associate level.

There has been a huge rise in “authorised push payment” or “APP” fraud over recent years. The amounts involved in these scams can be significant, writes Gordon Deane. The High Court in England recently rejected a claim by a bank customer who fell victim to an APP fraud. A dis

Iain Young considers the year ahead in tax. One of the most hackneyed phrases found in articles written by lawyers is that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. 

Legislation to increase the transparency of land ownership in Scotland has been passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament. The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land regulations pave the way for the creation of a public database that will provide key information about those wh

Prior to his apology to the Scottish Parliament yesterday the Lord Advocate gave welcome confirmation that the Duff and Phelps administrators' Clark and Whitehouse have indeed been paid £21 million in compensation and awarded £3m towards their legal costs as was widely rumoured and repor

A coronavirus resilience fund for legal aid firms and law centres, worth up to £9 million, has opened for applications. The Coronavirus Resilience and Recovery Fund for Legal Aid has been created to provide financial support to enable legal aid services to the public to continue during the pan

Catherine Smith has joined Compass Chambers. Ms Smith has extensive experience in reparation and public law and specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and judicial review.

A University of Stirling legal academic is launching a new body to bring together all sectors of the profession in Scotland. Dr Guido Noto La Diega, associate professor at the university’s law school, has been awarded funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to create the Scottish Law and I

Strathclyde Law School’s Mediation Clinic hosted the UK’s first mediation clinic conference on 6 February. The virtual conference was attended by 120 people, including from India, Lebanon, Kenya, Georgia and Ireland. The keynote speakers were Carrie Menkel-Meadow, one of the founders of

TLT has partnered with Carbon Intelligence to support the development of a sustainability programme for the firm. Carbon Intelligence will also undertake a full strategy and business review, providing TLT with an analysis of risks and opportunities in terms of its sustainability strategy and approac

Should men be able to reject fatherhood without attracting legal obligations? Benjamin Bestgen considers this and other questions around abortion in this week's jurisprudential primer. See his last one here. Abortion remains the subject of one of the most contentious social debates of

Thorntons has reported a 2.6 per cent growth in turnover for the year to 31 May 2020 to £30.5 million as well as an increase in profits of 12 per cent. Although the final months of trading were impacted by the pandemic, the 58-partner firm remained on a firm financial footing as a result of it

A cross-justice initiative in South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway (SSDG) is saving time at court and has already dealt with more than 200 cases. The initiative sees criminal justice and good behaviour reports provided securely by the local authority social work departments and the Crown, 48 hou