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Last November was another significant point in Jen Paton’s career trajectory. The Edinburgh-based legal director in Shoosmiths’ corporate division had been named Corporate Rising Star of the Year at the influential Legal 500 Scotland Awards held in the city. For Ms Paton it was an opport

Dundee employment lawyer Ryan Russell has been appointed senior managing partner at MML Law, one of the city’s leading law firms. Mr Russell, 41, has built up a reputation nationally acting in many high-profile and ground-breaking employment cases in recent years while progressing through the

Brodies LLP has announced the election of a new chair, with partner Iain Rutherford to take on the role from 1 May 2025. Mr Rutherford will succeed Christine O'Neill KC, who steps down as chair on completion of her fourth, three-year term. Regarded as one of Scotland's leading litigators and an expe

Celebrities A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have promised to name their next child after the lawyer who successfully defended the award-winning rapper on assault charges. A jury in Los Angeles this week found the rapper, legally named Rakim Mayers, not guilty of firing a semi-automatic weapon at a former fri

Strathclyde University has won this year's Lord Jones Moot Competition. The competition is named in memory of University of Dundee Law School alumnus Lord Jones, who was instrumental in its founding and judged the final in 2016.

First Minister John Swinney will convene a gathering of Scottish society to work together and unite Scotland against the “increasingly extreme far right”.  Representatives from key organisations across Scotland including churches, trades unions and charities will be invited to atten

A 102-year-old man is suing the French state for compensation over his forced deportation to Nazi Germany as a labourer during the Second World War. Albert Corrieri is seeking €43,200, which he calculates as €10 per hour for the time he spent in forced labour. “We are forgotten victi

States and companies are manufacturing, promoting and selling electric shock equipment that is being used for torture and other ill-treatment, said Amnesty International, in a new report calling for a global, legally-binding treaty to regulate the unchecked trade in law enforcement equipment. &ldquo

Drummond Miller has announced the appointment of four new team members to its residential conveyancing division. Military veteran and former rugby player Wilson Browne, who is returning to the firm, and Jean McAlpine have both joined as partners – bringing decades of combined experience in res

Alastair Gray knew rradar was a firm he wanted to join when he turned up for his interview to hear the strains of Get Down by the rapper Nas blasting through the open-plan office. He had, he says, “come to a crossroads” in his career. Hearing that music and seeing the ping-pong tables an

The success of Harper Macleod's apprenticeship programme was highlighted as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week (3 to 7 March), an annual campaign by Skills Development Scotland celebrating the value of work-based learning in helping individuals and businesses grow. 

A hairdresser who was convicted of assaulting an 88-year-old man with dementia in a care home has lost a Sheriff Appeal Court challenge to the conviction based on an argument that there was insufficient corroboration of the evidence that she had committed an assault. Elaine Murphy, who was convicted

Police acted unlawfully in arresting a trainee Baptist minister who shouted “Who elected him?” at a proclamation of the accession of King Charles III. Symon Hill, 47, has received £2,500 in compensation from Thames Valley police over the incident in September 2022. 

The House of Lords Constitution Committee is inviting written contributions to its new inquiry into the rule of law. The inquiry is seeking to understand the rule of law as a constitutional principle and what the state of the rule of law is in the UK. The committee will consider the different unders

Simpson & Marwick is returning to the Aberdeen property market after a six-year break. The firm returns under the stewardship of Aberdeen businessman Rob Aberdein, and is focused on re-establishing itself in the region.