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Two lawyers have made tandem parachute leaps to raise funds for a worthy cause. Billy Smith and Chloe Herd, of Complete Clarity and Simplicity, undertook skydives in aid of the Team Jak Foundation.

At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Lord Tyre sentenced Bradley Isherwood to an extended sentence of 13 years, which includes a custodial period of 10 years. Isherwood had been found guilty of rape and sexual assaults against two women and a 14-year-old girl. He has been placed on the Sex Offe

At the High Court in Livingston, Lord Mulholland sentenced Connor Gibson to life in prison, with a minimum period of 22 years in custody, for the sexual assault and murder of his sister Amber Niven. Stephen Corrigan received a prison sentence of nine years for sexual assault and attempting to defeat

TLT has appointed Keith Anderson as a partner in its Edinburgh office. Joining TLT from Gilson Gray, he brings over a decade of experience to the firm's commercial dispute resolution team in Scotland.

Dear Editor, Murder is broadly defined and universally recognised as the wilful destruction of human life with unlawful intent. The "intent" required needs to be “unlawful” and the “destruction” needs to be “wilful” which generally means that you can’t commi

Sam Clarke has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner in the real estate finance group. He brings over 16 years’ experience advising financial institutions, developers, investors and listed corporates on real estate finance transactions in the UK and Europe.

Coulters has appointed experienced estate agent, Di Jennings, to its local team. Ms Jennings takes on the role of senior property consultant in Coulters’ East Lothian office, joining area director Sophie Duns. She spent 13 years growing Simpson & Marwick’s estate agency business in t

Spencer West has expanded its Scottish team and taken offices in Glasgow.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has welcomed four new trainee solicitors across two of its Scottish offices.

The Scottish government’s new short-term let (STL) licensing policy could fall foul of human rights laws, according to operators.

When he was named the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Rising Star of 2023, Too Good To Go global legal counsel Christopher Knudsen said the achievement was down to the help he had received from others and that he would equally like to “help others in the legal profession in the same w

Post Office workers who have had their convictions for theft and false accounting reversed will be offered compensation of £600,000 each, the UK government has said. There are suspicions that evidence from defective accounting software might have influenced approximately 700 prosecutions of br

The Scottish government could be the subject of a fresh legal challenge over its short-term let licensing policy. The chairperson of the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers (ASSC), Adrienne Carmichael, has written to First Minister Humza Yousaf to warn its licensing regulations may be in b

Glasgow University has introduced the world's first master's degree in reparatory justice. The degree has been established in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) and comes amid a global campaign for financial reparations stemming from the transatlantic slave trade.

A former sheriff has raised more than £5,800 for Simon Community Scotland after completing the Great Scottish Run with his daughter. Sheriff Paul Crozier, who retired from the bench in Glasgow last June, completed the half marathon on October 1st in a time of 2 hours, 9 mins and 8 se