The University of Aberdeen Law School has once again opened its doors to students from the USA as part of its Baltimore/Maryland Summer School.
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A Fife man who beat his partner to death with a tyre iron in the culmination of years of violence against women has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Unemployed Mark Campbell, 37, murdered his girlfriend through a sustained attack in the hours after inducing her to discharge herself from hospit
Rod Hutchison – a corporate law practitioner with over 20 years’ experience – has joined Aberdein Considine as a partner in the firm’s corporate and commercial team in Aberdeen. He specialises in mergers & acquisitions, acting for investee companies on securing equity inv
Dr David Caddick has been appointed to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) board. Dr Caddick was appointed as a JP on the Inverness Bench in 2018. He holds an undergraduate degree, three masters degrees and a PhD and was awarded an MBE in 1995.
The Law Society of Scotland has called for urgent action to resolve major disruption caused to Scottish criminal courts by failing custody arrangements. Criminal practitioners have reported major delays to proceedings at courts across Scotland as a result of inadequate service levels being provided
More than 21,000 people in Russia have been the target of repressive laws and practices by the Russian authorities to suppress the country’s anti-war movement, said Amnesty International today. Russian authorities are using a wide range of repressive tactics to crack down on anti-war activists
The Scottish Ministerial Code has been updated to "further strengthen transparency and propriety". Updates to the code include:
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and the Law Society of Scotland have called on the Scottish government's newly formed tax advisory group to embark on an active reform agenda. In a joint letter to the Scottish government, they underscored the necessity for improved public aw
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has launched a survey on protected characteristics in order to ensure that any future development of Civil Online best meets the needs and requirements of users. The survey will be included in all emails generated via Civil Online, as well as placed on strat
The Scottish Prison Service is installing landline phones in cells for the first time to support family contact, mental health and wellbeing, and reduce the risk of reoffending. They will replace prison-issued mobile phones, which were introduced as a temporary measure during the pandemic, when in-p
Calum Crighton has been appointed as a member of the Decom Mission board of directors. Decom Mission is a trade association focused on the international decommissioning energy sector.
Shoosmiths has achieved another record financial year with a revenue increase of seven per cent to £194.1m. Net profit increased by more than three per cent year-on-year to £62.7m, and the firm sustained a strong PEP of £676,000 (marginally up on last year’s £675,000).
Jury trials in the north have been severely disrupted by failures at prisoner transportation and custody firm GEOAmey. Sheriff Principal Pyle has published an order of court introducing changes to the jury court operations for Grampian, Highland and Islands Sheriffdom. The order requires new jury tr
Dear editor Your item of 18 July headlined Scots lawyers using dating apps to cheat warned about professionalism states that solicitors have been "cautioned by the Law Society" through an article in the Journal by our pseudonymous contributor The Unloved Lawyer.
Pinsent Masons has reported a 14 per cent increase in revenue to £605.9m in its 2022/23 financial year results. Profit per equity partner at the firm rose by 7.8 per cent to £797,000.
