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Terra Firma Chambers’ spring programme of webinars concluded on Thursday 13 May with the seventh event to date in our 2021 webinar series. Our Planning Law webinar was very well attended with 130 delegates signing up and feedback resoundingly positive. The number of attendees have been co

Aberdein Considine has made a raft of senior promotions across the organisation.  The firm has promoted a total nine members of staff to director, senior associate, associate and senior solicitor levels, as well as appointing two new partners. 

While remote hearings have proven useful over lockdown, they should not supplant in-person justice, says Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC. When lockdowns were first imposed in Scotland, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service – despite what might fairly be said to be years of under-funding &

An 81-year-old retired judge who made history as the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia has received an apology after being mistaken for a criminal suspect and put in handcuffs. Mr Justice Selwyn Romilly was briefly detained by police officers responding to reports of

Highland Council has dropped plans to require prior authorisation for bagpipes at funerals after an outcry from pipers. The measure was included in draft burial and crematorium management rules put out for consultation but has now been abandoned, The Times reports.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

Defence lawyers around the country downed their gowns yesterday in protest against the Scottish government's refusal to promptly disburse payments from its resilience fund. The Scottish government has only paid out £2.3 million of the £9m fund and less than a third of firms that applied

The Supreme Court has refused an appeal by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs against a decision of the English Court of Appeal not to require a top UK divorce lawyer to pay back over £475,000 in taxes that were avoided via a scheme. HMRC claimed that the respondent, Raymon

Vialex has signed the Mindful Business Charter, joining a wide range of businesses and professional service firms around the world in a collective commitment to address the avoidable stresses in our working practices and to promote healthier and more effective ways of working. The charter, originall

Clyde & Co has announced the promotions of Alison Tyler and Ann Bonomy to legal directors in Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively as part of its 2021 promotions round. Ms Tyler qualified with the firm in 2011. She is part of the firm's catastrophic and large loss team and specialises in defending

The Supreme Court is to begin hosting interactive, guided virtual tours for the public.

Mike Dailly, solicitor advocate at Govan Law Centre, has called on the Scottish government to extend the Covid eviction ban in his latest Glasgow Times column. Mr Dailly said there is a "common misconception" that eviction protections last until September.

As we emerge from restrictions and start looking towards post-pandemic ways of working, Ampersand has launched an ambitious pilot to instruct their advocates and alternative dispute practitioners electronically. In March 2020, electronic instructions became the norm, whenever possible. More than a y

UKELA Scotland has announced two new online events for its 2021 calendar. The first is a lunchtime talk by Ben Christman on 24 June 2021. Mr Christman has been appointed as the first in-house solicitor for the new Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS).

Two men in North Carolina who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl more than three decades ago have received a $75 million payout, believed to be the largest in US history. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who are intellectually disabled half-brothers, spent decades on deat