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Govan Law Centre is working with MPs, Glasgow City Council, and a number of third sector agencies and charities to identify affected asylum seekers with a view to raising legal proceedings to prevent Serco from summarily evicting people who are asylum seekers in Glasgow. GLC will also explore the po

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCC&W) has appointed solicitor and rising referee Dan McFarlane to its commercial property department. Mr McFarlane joins RCC&W from Aberdein Considine, where he has worked for the past four years. Starting as a summer placement student, he wen

Edinburgh- and Munich-based lawyers from CMS have advised the lead investor in a €37 million funding round for Berlin-based technology business Grover. The investment round, consisting of €12m from equity investors and €25m in debt capital, was led by Edinburgh-based Circularity Capit

Clíona Kimber SC, who lectured in law at the University of Aberdeen for eight years from 1993 to 2000, has been elected as chair of the Employment Bar Association at the Bar of Ireland. Ms Kimber is a Senior Counsel (equivalent to Queen's Counsel) in Ireland, specialising in litigating in emp

John Forsyth looks at the revival of the Notable British Trials series. The first Notable Scottish Trial, Trial of Madeleine Smith, was published in the autumn of 1905. It was published by William Hodge and Company whose intent that it would be the first of a series was clear from the plural Notable

The recent decision in ICI v Merit Merrell Technology is the latest in a series of decisions in the dispute – described by Mr Justice Fraser as ‘long-running, and bitterly fought’ – relating to steelworks to be carried out by MMT at a new paint manufacturing facilit

Inward migration is crucial to Scotland’s growth and prosperity. People who choose to make Scotland their home provide a vital contribution to our country’s economy, enhance our collective social and cultural well-being, and help to make Scotland the open and forward-looking nation that

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf's comment that a decline in convictions for people aged under 21 was a "great credit to our justice system" has been described as "mildly extraordinary" by one QC, given that crime itself is rising. Latest figures have shown that those aged under 21 who have been convi

The UK's secondary market in renewable energy projects has seen the energy & natural resources team at Harper Macleod complete a series deals worth in excess of £300 million in an unprecedented six-month spell. Led by senior partner David Bone, the firm acted for The Renewables Infras

Aberdein Considine has appointed Kevin Gardiner as mortgage operations director. Mr Gardiner, who brings over 20 years’ experience in financial services, joins the firm from First Mortgage.

Thompsons Solicitors has confirmed the beginning of legal action against the Scottish Football Association (SFA) on behalf of its clients "abused by paedophiles employed in Scottish football". Correspondence has today been sent to the association containing details of the civil claims.

The Sheriff Appeal Court, which normally sits in Edinburgh, will move to Glasgow for two days on Tuesday, 14 and Wednesday, 15 August. The court will hear criminal appeals, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary at the Saltmarket.

Two law students have been given awards for their outstanding performances in their conveyancing exams.  Matthew Edwards from Aberdeen and Carys Magee from Greenock have both received the Conveyancing Student Scotland award from Millar and Bryce for receiving the top marks in their respective D

A case involving the iconic luxury handbag designer Mulberry has looked at the law around discrimination on the grounds of a rather unusual philosophical belief, writes Claire Scott. Ms Gray worked as a market support assistant for Mulberry and had access to some of Mulberry’s design

The Faculty of Advocates is teaming up again with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in a second medico-legal debate, examining assisted suicide. In the first collaboration earlier this year, the spotlight fell on the implications and lessons of the Bawa-Garba case, in which a doctor was c