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Average house prices in Scotland have increased by close to £25,000 (13.2 per cent) over the last 12 months – the highest rate of all four UK nations. The latest monthly house price index for Scotland from Walker Fraser Steele, Chartered Surveyors also shows:

Jillian Merchant has been promoted to partner at Thompsons Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates. She said: "[I] can’t wait to get started in my new client relations role working with our trades unions colleagues.

Turcan Connell are hosting a series of short virtual seminars covering the legal (and other) implications of the evolving market for trading carbon in the UK. These free online seminars will be hosted via Zoom – sign up details below.  Thursday 25th November - 10am to 11am

A consultation has been launched on how custody is used as part of the criminal justice system and how support can be given to better help people move on from their offending behaviour within communities while ensuring public protection and victim safety remain at the centre of the process. Proposal

Three tonnes of oysters worth around €20,000 have been stolen from a French oyster farm amid rising prices for the molluscs. The theft from the Huîtres de Trousse Chemise farm is the second major oyster theft on the Ile de Ré in the past two weeks, The Times reports.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Raeburn Christie Clark and Wallace LLP (RCCW) has recruited seven new members of staff. At Inverurie, Kim Smart joins from Ledingham Chalmers as associate solicitor and branch principal. With over 10 years’ residential property experience and a wealth of local knowledge.

Edinburgh University law student, Felix Main, has been named as the third recipient of the Kirk Murdoch Scholarship, which was set up in memory of the highly respected lawyer. The scholarship provides financial support, professional mentoring, a place in Pinsent Masons’ summer vacation program

An English judge has dismissed an appeal by a construction company that was ordered to pay over £220,000 to an aggregate supplier in exchange for supposedly defective aggregate it sold to them for the construction of a warehouse that liquefied in heavy rainfall. It was argued by Readie Constru

A schoolteacher who engaged in sexual activity with a girl under his care and assaulted others has been jailed. James Clark was employed at a school in Perthshire when the offences took place between August 2011 and February 2019.

What is admissible in evidence in our ongoing trial of the past? The Arab slave trade? Modern slavery across Asia? Or are rules and consistency passé? Does Lady Justice need scales or will the sword suffice? Edinburgh Council, for example, remains coy about its plaque in Abercromby Place that

Family law is less intimidating and more efficient than ever before, according to a Dundee-based family lawyer who launched her business just before lockdown. Marking her first year in business following a 15-year career with one of Scotland’s largest law firms, Amanda Wilson of Amanda Wilson

The families of children who were killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 have succeeded in a defamation case against right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who claimed the massacre was a hoax. Mr Jones was found liable by default after a judge determined he engaged in “wilful non

The Edinburgh Academy has taken first prize in the Mock Court Project's seniors competition, fighting off schools from home and abroad.

What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.