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A sheriff has expressed anger over the “deplorable” seven year wait for a fatal accident inquiry into a North Sea helicopter disaster. Four offshore workers were killed when a Super Puma helicopter crashed on its approach to Sumburgh airport in Shetland in August 2013.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has opened a consultation on its budget and operating plan for 2020-21, as well as its strategy for 2020-24. The consultation proposes a budget increase of 3.5 per cent to meet the cost of the SLCC discharging its duties against a background of four ye

Jenny Dickson explains what public authorities ought to know about FOI requests, which they are routinely failing to timeously satisfy, if at all. The Scottish Information Commissioner has reported a year-on-year rise in freedom of information (FOI) requests, with an eight per cent increase in reque

John West, an associate at SKO, talks about developments in family law in recent years, the centrality of EU regulations to the field and the uncertainty posed by Brexit. Watch the video here

A mother and daughter have been awarded compensation after they were left ravaged by bedbugs at an Edinburgh guest house. Ildiko Kolosvary, 53, suffered an allergic reaction to bedbugs during a stay at the now-defunct Regis Guest House in Gilmour Place, Edinburgh.

Murray Beith Murray has announced that its charity partner for 2020 is to be Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS), a charity which offers full family support for children with life-shortening conditions. Senior partner Hugh Younger said: “Staff and partners overwhelmingly voted for

Harper Macleod has recruited Peter McLuckie, formerly legal and compliance director at Baxters Food Group, as a senior associate in its Elgin office. Mr McLuckie, a corporate lawyer with specialist knowledge of the food & drink sector, had a long career as an in-house adviser at the highest leve

Senator of the College of Justice Lady Rae is in the running to become the next rector of Glasgow University. Lady Rae, who features in the university's 100 Voices for 100 Years project, was last year awarded an honorary degree by the university in recognition of her contribution to Scots law.

As the world’s largest oil and gas companies face mounting pressure to address the climate emergency, new research from CMS reveals that a significant majority of the sample – equivalent to half of worldwide production – is adapting their strategy to invest in a more diverse energy

Michael Thomson, head of Burness Paull’s restructuring and insolvency practice, has been named in The Hot 100 as one of the UK legal sector’s rising stars. The annual list, compiled by The Lawyer magazine, recognises the most innovative and creative lawyers from in-house, private practic

Scottish Legal News is very pleased to welcome legal journalist Margaret Taylor as a contributor. Margaret previously worked for The Lawyer in London and as a business correspondent for The Herald. She has now gone freelance and will be contributing a regular Lawyer of the Month piece as well as an

As legal projects, compliance programmes and strategic transactions become ever more complex and multinational in scope, a new breed of professional legal project manager is emerging to help manage the time, quality and cost paradigm, writes Rachel Wood. Thirty years ago the notion that lawyers woul

Chris Kerr, a partner in the corporate team at Harper Macleod who has been at the forefront of the firm's growth in the Highlands, Islands and Moray, has been named as one of the UK’s "most daring, innovative and creative lawyers" by a legal publication. He is one of only two lawyers from a Sc

TLT has advised clean energy investor Blackfinch on the acquisition of 12 operational onshore wind projects, adding to its growing renewable energy portfolio. The wind projects, located across England and Scotland, were acquired from Harmony Energy and whilst there were some private wire elements, t

Margaret Taylor interviews Robbie Brodie of Livingstone Brown on his recent triumph at the Court of Session. When Lord Boyd of Duncansby ruled last month that an Ayr-based adult day care centre must remain open for the foreseeable future he delivered a victory not just to the father who had filed th