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The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has been cleared of professional misconduct by a tribunal following a conviction for a firearms offence. Richard Keen appeared at a Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (BTAS) hearing over allegations he had brought the profession into disre

Josef Strand has been appointed an associate at Dentons in Glasgow. Mr Strand, who joins the firm's real estate department, obtained an LLB from Edinburgh University and trained with Sneddons in West Lothian.

The decision to jail the Catalan leaders has caused widespread outrage. Is the outrage justified? When regional nationalist leaders openly defy the law, what is the proper response of central government? These are questions with which the Spanish Supreme Court has had to grapple. They may yet come t

Pinsent Masons has advised Tesco on a significant project to source electricity directly from Scottish renewables projects – the biggest of its type ever completed by a retailer in the UK. As a member of the RE100 group of companies, Tesco has made a commitment to source 100 per cent of electr

Independent commercial law firm MacRoberts has welcomed a number of new clients to the firm as a result of recent competitive tendering exercises. In the private sector, the firm has been appointed to act for CALA Homes as part of a select panel of legal advisers.

Law lecturer Malcolm Combe has announced he is taking up a new post at the University of Strathclyde in December. Mr Combe, a solicitor and senior lecturer in law at the University of Aberdeen, admitted in a blog post that it "will be a wrench to leave" the north-eastern city after more than eight y

Alasdair Docwra, family law partner at Thorntons, examines the reaction to proposed surrogacy law reform. The Catholic Church has given its views, some may disagree. Here is the position and here are the benefits of surrogacy in our opinion.

Public procurement policy and practice, when it comes to facilitating SME involvement, seems to be focused solely upon ensuring there are opportunities at a sub-contract level. But, asks Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie legal director Roddy Cormack, does this focus miss the sweet spot in terms of ac

Ben Zielinski, a senior associate in the commercial litigation team at Shoosmiths in Edinburgh, considers the significance of a recent judgment in the Court of Session that has given greater clarification of how much notice a landlord needs to give to terminate a commercial lease in Scotland. A rece

A 93-year-old former Nazi has gone on trial in Germany over charges he helped kill hundreds of people at the Stutthof concentration camp near the end of the war. Bruno Dey, who was an SS guard as a teenager, appeared in Hamburg youth court yesterday to deliver a prepared statement, The Times reports

The Court of Session has delayed a decision on whether the Prime Minister has complied with a law that compels him to seek a Brexit extension. Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to Brussels requesting a delay, accompanied by a signed letter saying he thought that doing so would be a mistake.

Scottish company Murgitroyd Group has been acquired for £62.8 million by Sovereign Capital Partners LLP. The firm has been bought by Project Petra Bidco, a newly-incorporated entity indirectly controlled by funds managed by Sovereign Capital Partners, at 675p a share.

Gillespie Macandrew has appointed Karen Wooton as legal director in its Glasgow office. Ms Wooton has 18 years’ experience in the private client and tax sector and will lead this arm of the firm’s business in the west of Scotland.

Pictured (L-R): Konstantin Baranov, Christina McKelvie and Laura Miti Campaigners from Russia and Zambia have begun a three-month fellowship at the University of Dundee designed to support those at risk for their work in protecting human rights around the world.

A decision issued last week by the Court of Session in Edinburgh concerning business rates continues a recent trend in which the courts have often upheld arrangements under which full business rates are mitigated through the use of occupational arrangements not seen prior to rates relief being pared