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Digby Brown Solicitors has appointed three new partners. Fern Mapp takes her position with the foreign & travel team in Edinburgh – she is renowned for helping people in complex and high-profile matters like international offshore incidents and the Clutha helicopter disaster.

CMS has announced the appointment of Sally Clark to its team in Scotland. Ms Clark joins the firm’s disputes resolution practice in the role of of counsel to support its UK and international client base.

Yvonne Evans, a senior lecturer in law at University of Dundee, has been elected chair of the the Law Society of Scotland Board of Examiners, succeeding Richard Whitecross. The board oversees the assessment of lawyers re-qualifying into Scotland, as well as setting the Law Society professi

Legislation establishing an Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) has been approved by UK MPs in one of their final acts before the coming general election. The approval of the Victims and Prisoners Bill comes days after the Infected Blood Inquiry concluded that the infection of around 30,000

Israel is defying an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling ordering it to halt its military offensive in Rafah, the city in the southern Gaza Strip where nearly 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering. After considering an application from South Africa, the UN's top court on Friday ordered Isr

Balfour and Manson has expanded its presence in the north-east by merging with Alastair Hart & Co, Solicitors & Estate Agents (AH&Co). AH&Co has been run by Alastair Hart since the mid-1990s. He will join the merged practice as a consultant for a short period with the merger being co

A couple that bought a property in Auchendinny only to find a substantial quantity of Japanese Knotweed on the grounds have been allowed to progress with an action raised against the sellers based on a breach of the terms of sale. John Busby and Marie Donnelly argued that Mark and Kim Blair were in

The New York Court of Appeals has concluded in an appeal based on a dispute between two classes of shareholder in a wound-up Scottish fantasy sports company that the plaintiffs had sufficient cause for an action of breach of fiduciary duty under Scots law. Nigel Eccles and other appellants, includin

An octogenarian who allegedly spent close to a decade menacing his neighbourhood with a catapult has been apprehended. Prince King, 81, is accused by police in southern California of being a "serial slingshot shooter", NBC News reports.

MSPs have backed legislation giving councils a new power to introduce a visitor levy to raise funding for local visitor facilities and services. The Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill will enable local authorities to apply a levy on overnight stays with all money raised to be reinvested in services and fa

Freedom of information is important according to the vast majority of respondents to a survey by the Scottish Information Commissioner. The research also found strong public support for the reform of FOI law in certain areas, including the extension of the law to cover new bodies such as provid

Legislation concerned with flexible working will form a key focus at CLT Scotland’s Employment Conference which will take place online on 12 June. Conference chair Lindsey Cartwright of Morton Fraser MacRoberts will look at how the new legislation on flexible working and carers leave is likely

An expert report on the division of the dual role of the lord advocate is expected in the coming weeks. The SNP had promised to make progress on considering reform of the role in its 2021 manifesto.

The Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN) is hosting a right to repair event on 10 June at the University of Strathclyde. Professor Leanne Wiseman (Griffith University, Australia) will speak on the following topic: Reinvigorating Australia's Right to Repair: a consumer, competition, climate