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Straight in at No 1 are Siouxsie and the Banshees – no, it’s not a throwback to the era of punk, but a quizzing success for a Faculty of Advocates-dominated team!Skipper Susanne Tanner QC, hand-picked her former Crown Office colleagues, Douglas Fairley QC, and Summary Sheriff Peter McCormack, a

National law firm Shoosmiths has announced six new partners in the firm's May promotions. They are joined by 18 new senior associates across the UK, including two in Edinburgh.

A billionaire has been ordered to pay £453 million to his ex-wife in the UK's biggest divorce award. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting in the Family Division of the High Court in London yesterday, awarded her 41.5 per cent of the couple's £1 billion “marital assets”, The Times reports.

Academically gifted law students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Scotland will benefit from a recent cash injection to the Lawscot Foundation - a charity set up by the Law Society of Scotland to remove financial barriers between aspiring law students and their goal of becoming Scottish solicitors.

Two law students from the University of Aberdeen came third at the annual Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (ICCC) competition last month. The duo, Jennifer Baird and Euan Thompson, who are both studying the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice Programme at the university,

MSPs on Holyrood's Health and Sport Committee have called on the Scottish government to prepare a strategic plan covering health and social care in prisons, setting out how prison healthcare can reach parity with wider society within the next two years. Parity of care with the wider community was a

The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) has struck former Ross Harper partners Alan Susskind and Cameron Fyfe from the Roll of Solicitors following an investigation by the Law Society of Scotland. Concerns were raised over the firm's accounting record following a financial compliance i

A lawyer representing victims of food poisoning and other mass contamination outbreaks has confirmed he has been contacted by several victims of the Airdrie Hepatitis A outbreak who want to begin legal action. Patrick McGuire from Thompsons Solicitors (pictured) said: “After the news emerged on Fr

Weightmans LLP, which opened in Glasgow in 2013, has unveiled a new structure and five year strategy after undertaking its biggest strategic review for decades.The firm has moved on from its former business line layout and has introduced a new client relationships arm, which will encompass six clien

You might be able to escape the Scottish weather by travelling thousands of miles around the globe, but, as the Faculty of Advocates’ Bill Frain-Bell (pictured) discovered, other reminders of home are more difficult to shake off.

Last week 65 members of the World Services Group (WSG), primarily from Europe but also the USA and Japan attended its 2017 European Regional Meeting in Edinburgh to hear and learn from legal sector and industry luminaries on subjects as diverse as Brexit; the impact of AI on the professions and its

The finalists for the Law Society of Scotland’s 2017 In-house Rising Star Award have been announced.The judging panel shortlisted three nominees from a strong field of entries, all of whom have been described as “excellent”. The finalists are:

A former top judge has warned that the “torrent” of Brexit legislation may go unscrutinised. Delivering the Bingham lecture in London yesterday, former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, said that there were already thousands of items of legislation going unread.

Maclay Murray & Spens LLP has strengthened its financial services capabilities with the appointment of Carolyn Bell (pictured), as director of its financial services group in Edinburgh. The former in-house managing legal counsel with Lloyds Banking Group and Aberdeen Asset Management joins the f