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The complete Bible has now been rendered in Doric after one man's 17-year endeavour. Retired solicitor Gordon Hay began the work in 2006 by translating the New Testament while still employed, concluding it six years later.

Cash is the obvious asset that gets ‘misappropriated’ and is certainly the most common when we’re investigating wrongdoing or fraud in an organisation. But it’s not always simply cash that gets taken when a business gets defrauded, sometimes the assets are a lot more interest

Shepherd and Wedderburn has relocated its Edinburgh headquarters to the new Haymarket grade A office development, taking a lease of the top two floors of 9 Haymarket Square which it moved into in May. With an ‘A’ Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating, the move is aligned with the f

Dentons has moved to the Edinburgh's west end after signing a 15-year lease for premium offices in 9 Haymarket Square.

A former teacher and football coach who was surrendered from Vietnam to stand trial for the sexual abuse of young boys has been jailed for five years. Kenneth Divers abused the boys, some as young as 11, at various locations including Hampden Park and two schools in Paisley between 1968 and 1992.

Scottish intellectual property firm Lawrie has reported 12 per cent growth this year and projected total sales of around £3.5 million for the upcoming financial year. Growth areas for the patent and trade mark attorney firm has primarily come from increased trade mark work and patent fili

An initiative designed to help law firms respond meaningfully to the climate crisis has launched in the UK ahead of London Climate Action Week. Legal Charter 1.5, which has been developed by a group of law firms, consists of a set of core principles that signatories commit to in order to reduce gree

Bosses who tried to use a fake priest to trick workers into making "confessions" of wrongdoing have been ordered to pay nearly €130,000 in back wages and damages. Employees at the Taqueria Garibaldi restaurant in Sacramento, California said they were introduced by the owner to a priest who woul

Glasgow University has diluted its standards during the marking and assessment boycott, academics from its School of Law have warned. Forty members of the law school, who have requested anonymity, wrote to university principal Anton Muscatelli to oppose the decision to hold law graduations yesterday

Academics at Abertay University are working with Police Scotland on a research project that aims to help frontline officers improve how they interact with LGBT and care-experienced young people. Led by Professor Jim Moir of Abertay’s School of Business, Law and Social Sciences, the project inv

New laws to change how imprisonment is used in Scotland, while ensuring victims are at the heart of the justice system, have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The reforms will establish one new bail test and set into law the circumstances in which courts should remand someone in custody or gra

A Pakistani national who had an application for naturalisation as a British citizen refused because she had unknowingly remained in the UK after her leave had been curtailed has had her petition challenging the decision refused. Petitioner Azia Ameen, who had been granted indefinite leave to remain

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 69-year-old Robert Chalmers. Mr Chalmers died on 4 April 2022 at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh after being transferred there from HMP E

Winnie Ewing, the former SNP MP and an emblem of the Scottish independence movement, has passed away at the age of 93. Born and raised in Glasgow, she studied law at Glasgow University and qualified as a solicitor, running her own firm.

Half of the prison officers in England and Wales do not feel safe at the prisons they work in, a large-scale survey of prison staff by the cross-party parliamentary Justice Committee has revealed. Over 80 per cent of the prison officers surveyed say that staff morale is not good, and a large majorit