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Sarah Baillie Sarah Baillie of Anderson Strathern has joined a select group of only 12 other Law Society of Scotland accredited specialists in planning law.

At the High Court in Glasgow today, Lady Rae, sentenced Alexander Pacteau, 21, to life imprisonment for his “brutal, senseless” and “motiveless" murder of Irish student Karen Buckley with a punishment part of 23 years after the accused pled guilty to the murder. On sentencing, Lady Rae said: �

Neil Stevenson The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's(SLCC) staff have chosen The Yard as their staff charity for their 2015-16 year.

A challenge to legislation which will see a “named person” assigned to every child in Scotland has been refused by appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session. Four charities and three individuals contended that provisions in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 passed

MBM Commercial partner Cat MacLean  speaks to SLN in this week's Spotlight. What has been your best experience as a lawyer?

A disabled woman who challenged a health board’s decision to cease providing homeopathic treatment has had a petition for judicial review dismissed.

Willie McIntyre Several readers have contacted SLN to raise their concerns about the utterly inadequate legal aid rates of pay proposed for the new Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh.

Sir Stephen House Sir Stephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland has today announced he will leave his post by December 2015.

Alison Sim Law firm HBJ Gateley has appointed Alison Sim a former legal director of oil and gas contractor Subsea 7, as a partner in its Aberdeen office.

Pictured (L-R): Eric Gilligan, David Chalmers and new partner Anya Duncan at Stronachs’ Aberdeen headquarters Stronachs LLP has created one of the largest specialist employment teams in the north-east of Scotland with the appointment of Anya Duncan as a new partner.

A worker at Faslane Naval Base has been convicted of killing a man with a single punch after losing £1,000 at a casino in Glasgow. Kallum Delaney, 20, admitted punching 27-year old Robin Thomson outside the casino in the early hours of 23 September 2014, but claimed Mr Thomson had challenged him to

Sir John Chilcot The families of British soldiers who died fighting in Iraq are warning they may take legal action against the head of the inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war and its involvement in Iraq until 2009.

It has emerged a police force avoided investigating break-ins at odd-numbered houses in an attempt to save money. Leicestershire Police ran a pilot scheme which they said did not negatively affect public satisfaction or indeed crime rates, the BBC reports.

A man who claimed that his late grandmother had promised to gift him her house in a testamentary writing has had an action for conveyance of the property against the executor of the estate dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the pursuer “failed to prove that the deceased entered