Proposals to introduce electronic tracking and monitoring technology for small fishing vessels will be consulted on as part of package of new fisheries measures. The consultation proposes that vessel tracking devices will be required by Scottish commercial fishing vessels under 12 metres in length w
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Kee Solicitors has welcomed Dean Gallacher to to its team as a family and civil solicitor. Mr Gallacher graduated from the University of Glasgow with an LLB and the diploma before completing his traineeship in 2022.
Advocate and barrister Alan Inglis has passed away at the age of 66. A member of Arnot Manderson Advocates and 4PB, Mr Inglis was a highly experienced family lawyer and the only specialist family counsel to practise in both Scotland and in England and Wales. He appeared in most of the landmark cases
A man who tried to smuggle controlled drugs worth thousands of pounds into Scotland disguised as pet food has been jailed for four years and two months. Packages addressed to Toby Bishop, 21, of Glenogil, Angus, were sent from Germany and declared as cat food. But when UK Border force officers inspe
The corporate group at Burges Salmon has advised Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company, on a £4m funding package to support the development of cell analysis solutions for the biopharma industry and fast-track novel therapies to market. The investment round was led by existing invest
Canadian Professor of Social Work, Edward Kruk, will talk in Edinburgh next week on how family courts get in the way of resolving disagreement between parents after separation.
A sentencing guideline which means that rapists under the age of 25 can be spared from prison due to their reduced capacity for sound judgment is to be reviewed. The principle behind the guideline from the the Scottish Sentencing Council is that rehabilitation should be the “primary consi
An Edinburgh sheriff has ruled that the extradition of a man requested to stand trial in Utah in respect of charges of rape, who claimed he was an orphan from Ireland and not the requested person, would be compatible with the Human Rights Act 1998. It was held in November 2022 that the requested per
Ailidh Ballantyne has been promoted to senior associate director at Scullion LAW. Managing director at Scullion LAW, Nicholas Scullion, said: “Congratulations once again, Ailidh! Your promotion is well-earned, and here's to a future filled with happiness, success, and recognition.”
A fugitive who was extradited from Brazil has been jailed for nine years and ten months after pleading guilty to offences linked to serious organised crime James White, 46, was sentenced at the High Court in Stirling after admitting a charge of directing serious organised crime.
A number of new sheriffs have been appointed to serve Glasgow & Strathkelvin, Grampian, Highland and Islands, Lothian & Borders, North Strathclyde, South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and Tayside, Central & Fife Sheriffdoms. Louise Arrol KC, Owen Mullan, Craig Findlater, Neil Wils
Dundee Sheriff Court will host a memorial service for the late William Boyle on Friday 18 of August at 1pm. Scottish Legal News published an obituary for Mr Boyle last month.
Currently, companies which benefit from fraudulent acts by employees or contractors are rarely prosecuted, but that will almost certainly change when new laws come into force which make it far easier to prosecute and to hold companies criminally liable for failing to prevent fraud from which they be
A school district in Florida is limiting pupils' exposure to Shakespeare in response to the state's controversial "don't say gay" law. Hillsborough County's public high schools will now only permit students to read specific excerpts of Shakespeare that do not include suggestive or sexual content.
