Digby Brown's Winter Dinner Dance for Spinal Injuries Scotland (SIS) has now generated more than £1.1 million to help survivors of spinal cord injuries.
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Anderson Strathern has appointed three new directors. Joanna Millar, a corporate and licensing specialist, Chambers-ranked solicitor with over 25 years’ experience joins as a corporate director. She is well versed in restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, refinancing and advising family busi
Property sales fall through far less frequently in Scotland than in England, according to data showing one in four sales collapsing in England compared to around one in 12 across Scotland.
Digital assets and the legal framework surrounding them will be the focus of a new research project funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). A team from the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Commercial Law consisting of Dr Burcu Yüksel Ripley, Dr Alisdair MacPherson and Luci Care
A senior English judge in the family courts has been treated in hospital after he was assaulted by a man whose case he was hearing. The litigant in person, who cannot be named, has pleaded guilty to assault, criminal damage and causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress and is due to be sente
A new guide to pro bono resources in Scotland has been launched by the Faculty of Advocates’ Free Legal Services Unit (FLSU), the Law Society of Scotland and legal services charity JustRight Scotland. It is now available online, and those involved in the pro bono sector are being encouraged to
Northern Ireland barrister James Stitt examines a Scottish case with significance for clinical negligence practitioners. Once more, a Scottish case has provided an opportunity for a substantial development of the law in the field of clinical negligence.
A watered-down bill to protect children's rights has been passed by the Scottish Parliament more than two years after the original version was ruled by the Supreme Court to be beyond the devolved chamber's powers. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) Bill requires
Police officers and staff are under-reporting misconduct because of a lack of confidence in Police Scotland processes, according to a new report. An inspection by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) found that misconduct and grievance processes are "perceived as lacking openness, tra
Our sister publication Scottish Construction Now has marked its 20th anniversary with impressive growth in readers and subscribers.
The Scottish government is looking for views on proposals to protect the rights of those with learning disabilities as well as autistic and neurodivergent people. A new consultation includes proposals for more inclusive communications and mandatory training in the public sector to deal with the stig
Judicial factors have been around for hundreds of years – but the most recent act was passed in 1889. Now over 130 years later, the Scottish Parliament will consider a bill aimed at bringing this area of law up to date, modernising and clarifying how it works.
Joanna Cherry KC has called on her fellow MPs to back a bid to reform the office of lord advocate in order to allay “suspicion of political interference”. Ms Cherry would like the power to vary the office to be devolved to Holyrood. She said concern over the lord advocate's dual role &ld
Complete Clarity Solicitors and Simplicity Legal has made two internal promotions and has appointed a new solicitor. Susan Grierson-Rattray and Molly Somerville have been made senior solicitors.
Aberdein Considine has expanded its wealth management operation, AC Wealth, with the appointment of Ross Leckridge as a chartered financial planner to the firm's newly established Edinburgh division of its financial planning team. Mr Leckridge, a fellow of the Personal Finance Society, brings more t