Search: Me/cfs

Holyrood has voted for the first time to consider legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illnesses, following a lengthy debate. MSPs backed the bill by 70 votes to 56 in a free vote, after months of cross-party pre-legislative scrutiny. The result comes just days before MPs at Westminste

Ralph Sayer, the Edinburgh-based solicitors and estate agents, has made two appointments. Kimberley Mackay has joined as a partner to head up a new private client division of the business, while the team has been further bolstered with the arrival of Louise McLaren as legal director.

A former member of the Household Cavalry has lost a case against the Ministry of Defence in which he claimed that he was negligently exposed to unsafe levels of noise while working with armoured vehicles in order to test them for future military use. Jonathan Bevan drove and tested Ajax armoured veh

A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".

A woman who embezzled £1.5 million from a family scrap metal business in Aberdeen has been ordered to repay almost £670,000 under proceeds of crime laws. Coleen Muirhead, 57, of Aberdeen, was jailed for three years and four months in September 2023 after she admitted a charge of embezzle

An Aberdeen sheriff has granted decree for payment in an action by a trade supplier against a partnership and two of its partners but only in respect of the second partner, after finding that the action was not competent in respect of the other defenders due to the timing of when the minute seeking

Inksters Solicitors has become the first Scottish member of the International Practice Group. The firm was admitted at the group's Spring Conference in Naples on 17 May 2025. The International Practice Group is a global community of lawyers, accountants, tax advisors and M&A specialists driving

The judge who led the Edinburgh tram inquiry has admitted he initially thought it was “unreasonable” for the public to be told he had received more than £1 million for the role. Lord Hardie told MSPs that he had feared disclosure of the sum would result in journalists “pester

Lindsays has appointed a new managing partner elect. Andrew Diamond, currently a partner and the firm’s head of residential property, will take up the role on 1 October.

An LLM graduate invited to judge at this year’s IBA ICC Moot Court Competition has returned to Scotland with new perspectives and insights on how human rights law is being applied and evolving across a rapidly shifting landscape in Europe. Gabriel Kielty’s trip to The Hague in the Nether

The family of a railway worker who died after contracting an asbestos-related illness will have their action for damages heard by a jury after a judge in the Court of Session ruled that their claim was not excluded from jury trial. The pursuers Andrew Mitchell and others, relatives of the late Walte

The regulatory body for social workers in Scotland has successfully challenged a sheriff’s ruling that proceedings before its conduct sub-committee “engaged” article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Sheriff Principal Alastair Dunlop QC (pictured) allowed the Scottish Social Servic

John Forsyth John Forsyth discusses the issues surrounding the remit of the Scottish Sentencing Council, which is to be constituted later this year.

A patient at a psychiatric treatment facility who sought judicial review over the failure by the Scottish Government to draft and lay regulations to allow him to challenge the level of security of his detention has had his petition dismissed. The UK Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the failure by th

Thomas Ross The SLN Spotlight this week falls on Thomas Ross, advocate and president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association.