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Kee Solicitors has announced the appointment of Nick Hay, who joins the firm's property & conveyancing department as a partner. Mr Hay has more than a decade of experience as a conveyancing solicitor and brings with him a wealth of experience with transactions of varying scale and complexity.

Professor Chloë Kennedy has been awarded over £372,000 from the Leverhulme Trust for a new research project entitled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The four-year project will be led collaboratively with co-investigators Dr Alice Krzanich (University of Aberdeen) and

Macnabs LLP's Jane McNicol has achieved accreditation as a specialist in incapacity and mental disability law.  The firm said: "Highly regarded for her dedication to safeguarding the interests of vulnerable adults, Jane is regularly being appointed by courts to advocate for their well-being and

Dr Rozemarijn Roland Holst has been awarded over £128,000 by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year project entitled ‘The Making and Unmaking of Global Commons by International Organisations’. Global commons, areas outside national jurisdiction of states such as the high seas, Antar

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have begun a month-long boycott of legally aided Crown Court cases in an escalation of their campaign for fee increases. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) announced the boycott last month following disappointment over the Department of Justice's response

“Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears”. Surely some mistake, I thought; shouldn’t it be the other way round? Swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks? It was during Evensong at the magnificent Liverpool Cathedral last month that this

Police Investigations & Review Commissioner Michelle Macleod has received a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours list for services to criminal justice and law enforcement. She was appointed by ministers in June 2019 and began her five year term as commissioner on 17 August 2019. She

David J Black tackles the issue of the day. One of the more annoying things about the British media in general, and the navel-gazing BBC in particular, is the irritating habit they all have of prioritising so-called news stories which are so trivial and ephemeral they barely deserve to make the insi

The Tumbling Lassie’s annual fund-raising ball, held in Edinburgh last month, raised over £20,000 for anti-trafficking charities. The event was organised by the Faculty of Advocates’ Tumbling Lassie Committee to raise funds for IJM (International Justice Mission) and SOHTIS (Surviv

Anna MacKay, a criminal defence solicitor at Scullion LAW, won the Rising Star of the Year Award at the recent Legal 500 Awards.  Kris Buchanan, head of criminal law, said: “Huge congratulations to Anna MacKay. She is considered one of the finest criminal law practitioners in the country.

Burness Paull has strengthened its offering for clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors with the appointment of Scott Duncan as a partner in the firm’s construction and projects team. Mr Duncan is an experienced lawyer with a strong track record of acting for energy and infrastructure

Dallas McMillan Solicitors has announced three promotions. Craig Muirhead (litigation) and Rachel Hendry (commercial property) have been promoted to the partnership while Abbey Freer (conveyancing) has been promoted to associate.

The Faculty of Advocates’ fictional member is back in time for Christmas this year in Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Created by Ross Macfarlane KC in 2019, the popular series continues in The Scotsman every weekday from today until Christmas Eve.

Aberdein Considine has opened an office in Manchester’s Spinningfields as it embarks on a UK-wide expansion of its commercial property business. The firm, founded in 1981 in Aberdeen, has 21 offices across Scotland and the north of England.

An online system to assist trainees and junior solicitors in drafting legal correspondence has won the Law Society of Scotland’s 2024 Innovation Cup. The judges selected Andrew Logue – an Aberdeen-based associate with Clyde & Co – for his proposed tool to facilitate collaborati