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Harper Macleod has announced the launch of Greener Actions, a project aimed primarily at reducing the environmental impact of dispute resolution in Scotland. With COP26 due to start in Glasgow on Sunday, Greener Actions aims to form the basis of a coordinated approach by the legal profession in

Greenpeace has failed in its challenge to the grant of consent to drill at BP's Vorlich field, East of Aberdeen. The decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session earlier this month is the latest in a rapidly growing series of activist challenges to the approvals or permits for oil and gas, ma

Malcolm Combe, lecturer in law at Strathclyde University and chair of the Land and Human Rights Advisory Forum, looks at the relevance of land and human rights now and what the work of the newly-established forum hopes to achieve.  This is a blog post about the new land and human rights forum,

The Scottish government has been told to provide a Holyrood committee with an "urgent" update on the legal aid dispute as it continues its long-standing policy of refusing to adequately fund the legal aid system. Legal affairs minister Ash Regan last week wrote to key legal figures, expressing

Prosecutors have dropped a case against a woman who faced up to two years' imprisonment for alleged acts of homophobia and transphobia online. Marion Millar, 50, from Airdrie, was charged by police with offences under s.127 of the Communications Act 2003 over her social media activity in 2019 and 20

Digby Brown helped raise a massive £59,000 for spinal injury survivors thanks to the return of the Winter Dinner Dance.

Compass Chambers are delighted to announce that Gavin Anderson has been appointed to the role of Crown counsel by the Lord Advocate. Mr Anderson will commence his role on Monday. Compass practice manager Gavin Herd said: “We are very pleased for Gavin and congratulate him on his appointment as

The Herald has published an obituary of James Walker, who passed away on September 19 at the age of 61. He was "a Scottish man of business who became one of the most prominent commercial lawyers in East Asia".

A socialite's speeding fine has been halved to £50 after she requested special treatment due to “financial hardship”. Lady Eliza Manners, 24, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, paid only £50 after she admitted driving her Audi A1 at 47mph in a 40mph section of the elevated M4 i

Penny wise, pound foolish.

An Orkney fish farming company has been unsuccessful in its challenge by judicial review of the decision of the Scottish Ministers to refuse two applications to develop salmon farms off the Orkney coast. The petitioner, Orkney Marine Farms Ltd, argued that the reporters for the respondent had acted

One of Scotland’s longest-serving civil solicitor advocates, Tom Marshall, retired from practice yesterday. A graduate of Dundee University, he trained with Bishop & Company in Glasgow before becoming a partner in the firm, by then called Bishop and Robertson Chalmers, in Edinburgh in 1988

Legal academic Eamon Keane will be taking up a post as lecturer in evidence and criminal procedure at the University of Glasgow next year. Currently a member of the Edinburgh Law School faculty, he joined last year as an early career fellow in criminal law and evidence. He is also a qualified solici

Defence solicitors will not enter Edinburgh Sheriff Court today after a member of the profession was removed by police from the court building on Saturday without explanation – and at the behest of a member of court staff. While undertaking its boycott of the custody court, an Edinburgh Bar As

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court went into lockdown last week after a lawyer received a positive Covid test. Defence lawyer Graeme Cunningham, 57, was representing a number of clients at the court on Thursday, the Daily Record reports.