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Balfour Beatty has been awarded the contract for the first stage of the Scottish Prison Service’s (SPS) project for the design and construction of HMP Highland, designed by BakerHicks.

Editor's note: All animals are cancellable, but some are more cancellable than others. That is the inference to be drawn from the manner in which we pick and choose history's villains. David Hume is out but Marie Stopes, eugenicist and admirer of Adolf Hitler, is apparently in. Edinburgh Council has

A lawyer has been fined after he said female barristers were “hysterical” and “overemotional”. Feliks Kwiatkowski, 66, who called to the bar in 1977, was fined £500 and reprimanded.

Thorntons has bolstered its Dundee conveyancing team by merging with Kim Barclay Solicitors. Founder Kim Barclay began her career at Thorntons, later launching her own successful residential property and will and executory practice – and two decades on she is rejoining the team. Paralegal Fion

Scottish business sentiment remained positive in the fourth quarter of 2021, but the rising cost of energy impacts prospects for 2022 and operates as a drag on the outlook for economic growth, despite the easing of pandemic restrictions.  The results of the latest Addleshaw Goddard Scottish Bus

Farrah Mahmood and Nick Harbison have both been promoted to the position of associate director at Scullion LAW in Glasgow. Ms Mahmood said: “I am absolutely delighted to be promoted to associate director at Scullion LAW. It is an incredible opportunity in recognition of my achievements, effort

Insurance risk and commercial law firm BLM is expected to hike NQ pay across the UK, according to reports. The firm, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, currently offers newly-qualified solicitors a starting salary of £45,000 (roughly €53,400) in London and £32,000 (€38

Miners who are to be pardoned for historic convictions will receive no compensation, Justice Secretary Keith Brown has said. Mr Brown dismissed calls for compensation to be paid to miners pardoned over strike action in the 1980s.

A Lord Ordinary has quashed a decision of a tribunal that a sheriff should not be removed from judicial office after he was found to have acted inappropriately towards a female lawyer. A petition challenging the decision that Sheriff John Brown was fit for office was made by the lawyer, X, who argue

Jurors in a high-profile criminal case in Quebec have been supplied with cannabis to pass the time until they reach a verdict. The jury has been sequestered while considering kidnapping charges brought against a local businessman. The jurors are staying in a hotel and will not be allowed to return h

Four men have been jailed for life for the murder of a man who was shot in the head as he sat in a car at traffic lights. Kenny Reilly, 29, was shot in Maryhill, Glasgow, on 16 April 2018 and died two days later.

The Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has called on the Scottish government to start justifying its use of emergency regulation-making powers and detail why they are being used in each instance. The powers, known as the ‘made affirmative procedure’, al

Balfour and Manson senior associate Michaela Guthrie has gained a Law Society of Scotland accreditation in medical negligence law. Ms Guthrie joined Balfour and Manson as a trainee in 2014, spending the final year of her traineeship working closely with partner Ann Logan. She has specialised in medi

Solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Scottish Ballet. Ms Ahmad-Ali was recently made head of legal for Europe at UnitedHealthcare, part of the UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 500 company. Before this, she worked at The Weir Group PLC and Cigna, wher

New legislation has been published to ensure all nationals of Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain can stand as candidates in Scottish local government elections. Following changes made in 2020, all nationals from these countries can already vote in local elections and those with settled status or