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Westcor has welcomed Laura Lapsley and Caroline Tait to its office in Glasgow. Ms Lapsley joins as a commercial underwriter having worked previously at another major title insurer for the last seven years.

Cyclists from Lindsays clocked up almost 1,000 miles as they hit the road to help disadvantaged children.

An appeal by a man charged with fraud and money laundering against a sheriff’s decision not to grant an application for the disclosure of the prior convictions of an individual mentioned in his special defence of incrimination has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. The appellant, MA

Burness Paull has been named the top-performing legal dealmaker in Scotland for the sixth time, topping the Business Insider deals table for 2021. In the tables published this week the firm led the market, having advised on 358 deals.

Teachers, like councillors, exercise what little power they have to what little ends they can. While few school pupils nowadays will actively be stopped from using the bathroom when nature calls, many of us have felt the disfavour of a teacher when attempting to do so. Perhaps the law should assist

Most voters and businesses back the continued use of online court hearings as part of the modernisation of the justice system, a think-tank has claimed. The Social Market Foundation found that three-quarters of 1,000 individuals polled were content with online hearings and other remote access arrang

A bill that enshrines in law the Scottish government’s commitment to making Scotland a 'Good Food Nation', has been passed. The approach aims to create links between policy at the national and local levels, with government, local authorities and health boards all creating good food nation plan

An Edinburgh GP has been jailed for four years for the rape of a woman he met through an online dating site. Dr Manesh Gill, 39, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after being found guilty of sexually assaulting his victim when they met for the first time.

Apple abused its market dominance after misleading iPhone users with an update that actually slowed devices down, a tribunal will be told. Twenty-five million British people could become eligible for hundreds of pounds each if campaigner Justin Gutmann wins his case at the Competition Appeals Tribun

JUSTICE has welcomed a decision of the European Court of Human Rights that stayed the removal of an asylum seeker to Rwanda as part of deal between the UK and Rwandan governments. The human rights organisation said the policy of transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda risks denying individuals effecti

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace LLP has welcomed Carolyn Richards as a partner. Ms Richards has almost 30 years’ experience of the new homes sector. An Aberdonian educated at St. Margaret’s School for Girls and the University of Aberdeen, she has practised exclusively in the housebu

A couple who took their neighbour to court over a "very minor” trespass which they refused to settle for £13,000 must now pay a £130,000 legal bill. Liz and Adam Peck refused the offer of a settlement from Debbie Ranford, a City banker, in a dispute relating to their home in Dulwic

The annual Law Society of Scotland In-House Rising Star Award is back, and two Scottish solicitors have been shortlisted for this year’s award from six nominations. Mariel Kaney, the deputy legal secretary to the Lord President’s Private Office, and Marion Sweetland, legal counsel in com

A Dundee sheriff has granted an application by the Accountant in Bankruptcy for reduction of a 2017 disposition of heritable property in favour of a sequestrated man and his second wife and ordered the couple to execute a fresh disposition in the AiB’s favour. Graeme Allan, the first defender,

DWF's Iain McLean has been awarded the Platinum Champions Award by the Royal Voluntary Service in recognition of the fundraising work he has done to help promote awareness and research into glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain tumours following the death of his son, Duncan, in 2016. Duncan lost his l