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Lindsays has announced the promotion of Louise Norris to senior associate and Brian Pollock and Leanne Gordon to associates. Ms Norris is a member of Lindsays’ commercial property team and is based in Edinburgh. She joined the firm in 2014 as a solicitor and her considerable experience include

Pictured (L-R): Emma Gray, David Currie and Scott Williamson A University of Dundee student retraining for a career in law has been awarded the annual Ken Scott Bursary by Blackadders.

Hardly a day goes by without another newspaper article or statistic about the challenges of being a working parent, the rise in sex-related discrimination in the workplace, and the ever persistent gender pay gap. As a caregiver, it is hard, at times, to see light at the end of the tunnel. Happily, a

Morton Fraser has appointed banking law specialist Kirsty McBirnie as legal director in its banking and finance group. Ms McBirnie has over 15 years of experience in the sector, having previously advised clients at Pinsent Masons and Brodies. She is the third legal director to be appointed by M

A launch event will be held next month to mark the introduction of the new Common Law Programme at Glasgow University's School of Law. Starting at 3.00pm on 19 October there will be a panel session among senior members of the judiciary/practitioners/academics on: “The tradition and evolut

More than a third of women claim they have been sexually harassed at work in the last 12 months, a new study has found. Thirty-seven per cent say they have experienced harassment and 39 per cent have witnessed colleagues being abused.

CMS has announced it will double this year’s number of Scottish bursaries to support two aspiring law students. As part of an annual UK-wide initiative, the firm awards £2,500 each year to a high-performing Scottish state school pupil from an economically disadvantaged background while t

Digby Brown Solicitors has said it has heard from twice as many alleged survivors of child sexual abuse since the three-year limitation period on claims for damages was lifted last year. The Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017, which was commenced last October, abolished a long-standing

Lord Wilson, a justice of the Supreme Court, returned to Northwestern University in Chicago this week to urge US law students to "strive tirelessly" to secure the protection and development of human rights. His speech, titled Our Human Rights: A Joint Effort?, looked at the "historical development"

The 32nd annual James Wood Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jo Shaw LLD FRSE AcSS, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, on the topic “Integration, Dis-integration and Citizenship in a Troubled European Union”. The lecture will examine the impa

Recorded crime in Scotland has seen a slight increase in the past year but is still at its second lowest level in more than 40 years. There were 244,504 crimes recorded by the police in Scotland in 2017-18. This is the second lowest level of recorded crime since 1974.

The recent English case of Williams Tarr Construction Limited v Anthony Roylance Limited and Anthony Roylance [2018] EWHC 23 highlights the importance of taking time at the commencement of a project to set out the basis on which parties intend to contract with each other, write David Arnott and Sara

Anderson Strathern has paid tribute to Investors in People (IIP), the former government-owned body now run as a not-for-profit, as the firm marks twenty years as an Investors in People-accredited organisation. The firm was the first in the Scottish legal sector to gain Gold for both IIP (2011) and Y

Holyrood’s Justice Committee has called for the swift introduction of legal apprenticeships in order to widen access to the profession. The committee said schools, universities and the Law Society of Scotland should consider what barriers exist to becoming a lawyer and to take action to r

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, has urged the cream of Scotland’s legal profession to consider a career on the bench. In an address at the Opening of the Legal Year 2018-19, Lord Carloway said he continued to have concerns about the reluctance of many of the best practitioners to consider a