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Thorntons has announced the appointment of Bridget McGuire as a senior solicitor in its family law team. Ms McGuire, who has a wealth of experience, will be based in the firm's Cupar office. She is local to the East Neuk of Fife and is passionate about supporting the local community, schools and bus

An advert in the programme for the Wigtown Book Festival has thrown up its own bit of mystery, in the shape of an advocate’s wig. The illustration for Well-Read Books of Wigtown, proclaimed as the town’s newest bookshop, features the wig and a bunch of grapes.

An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors. The School Mock Court Case Project runs an educational programme through an inter-school competition that sees school children argue a mock trial in a real court in front of a sheriff.

Pictured (L-R): Kasia Thomson, Millie Crocker, Andrew Shaw, Johnston Clark, Stephen Annis, Lesley Shand and Rachel Crighton. Blackadders welcomed its new intake of trainee solicitors earlier this week.

A cheesemaker is demanding £400,000 in compensation from a council after it lost a court battle against him over the safety of his produce, The Herald reports. Humphrey Errington, 74, can sell his cheese again after succeeding in a legal case against South Lanarkshire Council, which wanted it

MSPs from the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee are to visit Dundee, Forfar and Montrose today. The politicians are carrying out fact-finding visits in readiness for two new parliamentary inquiries that get underway at Holyrood this autumn.

Proposals for greater case management of family actions in the Sheriff Court have been generally endorsed by the Faculty of Advocates. While disagreeing with some specific recommendations, the Faculty welcomed the aim of reducing drift and delay.

The number of civil cases in Scotland initiated in 2016-17 was the lowest since records began in 2008-09, with a drop of 44 per cent since that year. The latest civil justice statistics, published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician today also record a 48 per cent drop in cases at the Court of Se

A criminal lawyer has been convicted of a drink-driving offence for the third time, the Daily Record reports. Martha Rafferty, 58, who was accused of failing to provide specimens of breath on two occasions, pleaded guilty at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.

The case of a former prosecutor who is suing the Lord Advocate for £1.3 million over claims she suffered stress may proceed to a full hearing, a temporary judge has ruled. Laura Malone, 52, is suing the Lord Advocate on the basis that he failed to prevent her suffering caused by overwork.

The prisons watchdog has criticised Police Scotland over bringing prisoners to court dressed only in their underwear or pyjamas, saying it stripped them of “human dignity”. In a new report, HM Inspectorate of Prisons in Scotland (HMIPS) said the practice came to light during a routine vi

The Lord President has launched a new "Judicial Work Shadowing Scheme", which gives any qualified solicitor, solicitor-advocate or advocate the opportunity to apply to spend up to three days observing the work of a judicial office holder. The purpose of the scheme is to encourage legal practitioners