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The Law Society of Scotland has called for an "evidence-based review system" to ensure the sustainable future of the Scottish legal aid system. Alison Atack, president of the Law Society, said it is "essential that we have a legal aid system that ensures people across Scotland can access the legal a

Measures to help police and prosecutors to tackle domestic abuse will come into force on 1 April next year, ministers have announced. The Domestic Abuse Act 2018, passed by the Scottish Parliament last year, creates a new offence which explicitly covers psychological harm as well as physical harm, a

Brodies LLP chairman, Christine O’Neill has been re-elected to serve a third consecutive term in the role. Partners voted unanimously for Ms O'Neill, who was first elected to the position of chairman in 2013, to continue to guide the firm through the next three years.

Magistrates are calling for their retirement age to be raised from 70 to 75 to stem the judicial recruitment crisis, The Times reports. Over the past 10 years, the number of magistrates has halved from roughly 15,000.

Glasgow firm Miller Samuel Hill Brown LLP (MSHB) has appointed Marie Macdonald as its new chairman, succeeding founding partner, Michael Samuel, who continues as a consultant. Ms Macdonald becomes the first woman to chair MSHB, one of Scotland’s longest-established legal practices.

A Court of Session ruling has highlighted how technology suppliers can successfully raise claims for relief for delays caused to their work, and how the businesses engaging those suppliers might properly resist those claims, writes Clive Seddon. Agilisys Limited (Agilisys) was engaged by technology

The Law Society of Scotland has launched an online version of its popular career mentoring scheme with the aim of supporting even more solicitors and students with career development. Since its introduction in 2014, 150 mentees have successfully been matched with a mentor.

A couple in Germany whose four children were temporarily taken into care because they insisted on homeschooling them did not suffer a violation of their article 8 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Wunderlich v Germany, the co

Fiona Buchanan extols the benefits of mentoring and looks at how it has been implemented at Shepherd and Wedderburn. Shepherd and Wedderburn, as a collection of individuals and as a business, has put diversity and inclusivity at the heart its organisational culture and values. The business case for

One of Scotland’s top renewables lawyers has joined Burness Paull LLP as a director in the firm’s property team. With over 20 years’ experience advising developers, landowners, funders and investors in the clean energy market, Nicky Pascoe is acknowledged as an expert in her field.

BLM has become the first law firm to officially sign up to the Inclusive Behaviours in Insurance Pledge, an initiative set up by Lloyd’s of London and Zurich to demonstrate the insurance industry’s commitment to creating a “culture where inclusive behaviours become the norm and whe

The English lawyer representing a man convicted in absentia of manslaughter following a speedboat crash which killed a young woman has received a death thread from neo-Nazis. Richard Egan, senior partner at Tuckers in London, received a letter which referred to the 2016 murder of MP Jo Cox, claimed

An accomplished US lawyer has received a $66 million compensation payout, among the largest in US history, after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a road traffic collision. Brooke Taylor, partner in the Seattle office of litigation firm Susman Godfrey LLP and a member of the firm's executive com

The Scottish government is seeking views on proposals to strengthen enforcement powers for animal welfare offences. Proposed amendments to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 would increase the maximum penalty for the most serious cruelty offences from 12 months to five years' imprison

A mother-of-five who failed to participate in legal proceedings in which her local authority applied to adopt her youngest child has had an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to grant the council’s petitioner dismissed. The Sheriff Appeal Court ruled that the sheriff had suffi