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Tributes have been paid to Ian Balfour, a scion of the Edinburgh law firm Balfour and Manson, who has died aged 89. Mr Balfour, whose grandfather co-founded the firm in 1887, remained active after retiring as senior partner with Balfour and Manson in 1998 and, until late last year, was working as jo

Macdonald Henderson has appointed Michael Strain as a solicitor in the firm’s dispute resolution team. Mr Strain is an experienced litigator, regularly advising clients on a broad variety of commercial and personal disputes, including debt recovery, contractual disputes, intellectual property

A Scottish actor who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for sexual assault has successfully had the length of his sentence reduced by a year. Kevin Guthrie challenged his conviction and sentence, arguing that his legal representation at trial had been defective in its handling of evide

Clyde & Co lawyer Ross Fairweather has qualified as a solicitor advocate. Mr Fairweather is an associate in Clyde and Co's large loss and catastrophic injuries unit in Edinburgh. He acts on behalf of the country's largest insurance companies, and self-insured companies, specialising in defending

A 30-year-old man has been jailed for large-scale fly tipping of car tyres on streets, car parks and empty land around Glasgow. Declan Clarke, from Drumchapel, was sentenced to 11 months' imprisonment at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday.

Shona Young has been promoted to senior associate in the family law team at Gilson Gray. She has worked exclusively in the area of family law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2017, and specialised in the field during her traineeship.

Caroline MacBeath has joined McEwan Fraser Legal's family law team. Ms MacBeath completed her LLB at the University of Aberdeen in 2002 and later attended Dundee University to complete her diploma in 2011.

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has ordered a landlord to pay nearly £1,400 to a tenant after quashing the First-tier Tribunal’s decision that payments intended to reimburse the landlord for a council tax payment were not an illegal premium in terms of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984.

Macnabs partner Garry Sutherland has qualified as a solicitor advocate. Mr Sutherland, who started as a trainee with Macnabs over 20 years ago, and who has focused on court and tribunal work for the past two decades, is the only Perth-based solicitor to hold the qualification.

A Leeds based company has been fined £850,000 after an employee sustained fatal injuries while undergoing training. Hermes Parcelnet Limited pled guilty to health and safety breaches committed between 1 August 2018 and 19 March 2019 at Hamilton Sheriff Court on 23 May 2022.

A Shetland-based company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained fatal injuries after being struck by a forklift truck. QA Fish Ltd, a fish processing company based at Blacksness Pier, Scalloway, pled guilty to health and safety breaches committed between 6 January 2014 and 31 Janua

A newly published judgment from 2019 details how former Scottish MP Natalie McGarry, who was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for embezzlement that year, won an appeal against a sheriff’s decision not to allow her to withdraw her guilty pleas, with the Crown granted authority fo

Hamilton man James McGee, a retired tax inspector who stole a dead man's identity to carry out a £170,000 VAT fraud, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment at Ayr Sheriff Court. James McGee, 66, utilised his 40 years of expertise to obtain false payments from HMRC.

A police department has said it is "embarrassed" after a volunteer officer was caught using police vehicles to sell drugs. Sheriff Grady Judd, head of the police department in Polk County, Florida, said the incident "makes me so crazy I want to pluck my eyeballs out one at a time", FOX 13 reports.

A prison officer at HMP Barlinnie who claimed to have been injured during an attempt to return a difficult prisoner to his cell has failed in an action against his employers. Alexander Gemmell, who had worked as a prison officer since 1991, alleged that his employers, the Scottish Ministers, owed hi