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Gilson Gray has announced its annual promotions. Rob McGregor has become head of estate agency at Gilson Gray’s burgeoning property division, while Callum Sutherland now leads new business and home-buying at the firm’s residential conveyancing arm.

Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its governance, risk and compliance function with a senior promotion and new hire. Keith Hamilton, who joined the firm in January 2023 as legal counsel, has been promoted to general counsel. He heads up a team of three, including the firm’s recently appoint

Jacqueline Moore has been promoted to partner at Thorntons. Ms Moore joined the Thorntons employment and immigration team in February 2023 and has quickly made her mark on the firm, driving growth of the specialist team, and positively impacting individual and business clients.

Mackinlay & Suttie Solicitors, of Barrhead and the surrounding areas, has now become part of MM Legal. Under the new arrangement, Matt Lynch will join MM Legal as a director, bringing with him a team of five who specialise in wills, estates and succession planning and residential conveyancing. T

Holmes Mackillop's Ralph Riddiough, supported by Finlay Swan and Rachel Loose, led the firm's team in the seven-figure sale of an 80 per cent stake in Waterfront Fluid Controls to listed Indian group Jash Engineering Limited, working alongside Richard Gibson and Ellis Kerton of Armstrong Watson.

Karen MacGregor is to join Middleton Ross as a senior associate from 1 July 2024. Ms MacGregor has been a sole practitioner at Macmillan & Co in Alness for 20 years and her practice will close on 30 June 2024. She has decades of experience and will focus on residential conveyancing, wills and po

The Herald has published an obituary for Sheriff Gerard Considine. "Gerard Considine, who has died aged 57, was a respected lawyer who spent his entire legal career specialising in criminal defence work, latterly as a solicitor-advocate. He was also a president of the Glasgow Bar Association an

An appeal against sentence by a repeat offender who was jailed for life with a punishment part of 23 years for murdering his partner while on bail for a different offence has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Christoper McGowan, aged 28 at the time of sentencing, had 57 previous convicti

A large percentage of law firms continue to ignore the complaints process and in doing so push up costs for everyone, writes Vicky Crichton.

New data from researchers at the University of Birmingham raises questions about whether the public in England and Wales see juries as fair and just, particularly to racial minorities. Experts surveyed 1,000 people and found that most (61 per cent) believe that more diverse juries are fairer, yet ju

A law student who wrote her dissertation on intellectual property rights and the music of Taylor Swift has been profiled by the BBC. Glasgow University student Regan Caie wrote her LLB dissertation on Ms Swift's re-recorded albums and copyright law.

A plane was turned back halfway through a three-and-a-half hour flight after a male passenger ran naked down the aisle. The Virgin Australia flight was forced to return to Perth just an hour-and-a-half into its journey to Melbourne because of what the airline described as a "disruptive passenger", N

Blackadders LLP is to move to a new Dundee office in the heart of the city centre. The law firm and wealth management firm will move to DC Thomson’s Meadowside building, leasing the first floor and a section of the ground floor from the content, technology and investments business. Blackadders