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A new record has been set for the number of Scottish solicitors formally admitted to the profession in a single day.

Blackadders LLP picked up three titles at the The Herald Law Awards 2024, with Bethany Buchanan-Webster winning the Up and Coming Award. The firm also triumphed in the Family and Child Law Team and the Employment and Pensions Team of the Year categories at a gala event in The Marriott Hotel in Glasg

Claire Loftus, Sir John Manzoni and Sir Ernest Ryder have been appointed as independent advisers to the Scottish Ministerial Code. Current advisers Lady Eilish Angiolini and James Hamilton have stepped down, having served for more than a decade in the role.

New amendments lodged in the Scottish Parliament this week must deliver on a government promise to reverse proposed political controls over the way lawyers work, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was lodged in April of last year. While many parts

The 2024 Shared Parenting Scotland annual user survey of clients who have received the charity’s help in the past year has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of parents representing themselves in Scottish courts because they cannot find a solicitor to represent them. Twenty per cent of

The family of Emma Caldwell has renewed their call for a judge from outside Scotland to chair the public inquiry into her murder, following a meeting with First Minister John Swinney and Justice Secretary Angela Constance at Bute House. Emma's mother, Margaret Caldwell, said: "I’ll go on as lo

The start of a new year usually involves making predictions about what the coming year may bring. So what might the Scottish litigation landscape look like over the coming 12 months? Nicola Ross lays out her predictions. There are several high profile judicial review cases currently before the Scott

A lord ordinary has ruled that a waste management company is entitled to sue the Scottish government over its decision to delay the coming into effect of the Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland. Biffa Waste Services Ltd, which committed around £51.4 million towards implementation of the DRS, so

Pinsent Masons’ Scottish corporate team rounded off a successful 2024 with completion of a range of multi-million-pound national and international deals. The firm’s head of corporate in Scotland, Barry McCaig, said despite challenging conditions, finance would be available in 2025 for th

Richard McMeeken and Robin Mackintosh discuss an important new delict case. On 28 January 2025, Lord Clark issued his opinion in Biffa Waste Services Limited v Scottish Ministers. Biffa contends that the Scottish government owed it (and failed to uphold) a duty of care in respect of its positio

Join Edinburgh Law School’s Professor John Cairns in conversation with fellow Edinburgh alumnus John D. O. Fulton as they discuss Mr Fulton’s new book, Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment and their current research on the topic. Professor Cairns and Mr Fulton will discuss how the Scot

School pupils gathered in Parliament Hall recently for the finals of the Young Speakers Scotland’s Schools Mace Debating Competition, hosted by the Faculty of Advocates. Young Speakers Scotland is an educational charity that uses debating and public speaking to help young people realise their

Blackadders LLP has advised the M&D Green Group in its acquisition of nine Scotland-based community pharmacies from Northern Ireland’s largest independent pharmacy operator, Gordons Chemists. The multi-million-pound deal will bring the number of community pharmacies in the family business

Gillespie Macandrew LLP has commenced a two-year partnership with local charities Richmond’s Hope and Change Mental Health in support of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) programme.