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Nine Jones Whyte trainees have qualified as solicitors.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by an Aberdeen-based offshore drilling company against a decision of the Court of Appeal that a hire cap provision could be applied to its provision of a support vessel for an oil platform for the purposes of calculating corporation tax due in the accounting

A hotel in China has been ordered to stop waking guests by placing red pandas in their rooms. The unique wake-up service offered by Chongqing-based Lehe Ledu Liangjiang Holiday Hotel has become a hit with tourists and influencers.

Mackinnons Solicitors fielded its first-ever football team to take part in the Aberdeen Corporate Business Fives event – a blend of friendly competition and charitable fundraising that brings together companies from across the region. The Business Fives tournament offers businesses the chance

Recent headlines have reignited debate over the lack of regulation for expert witnesses in both civil and criminal cases. But amid calls for tighter oversight, it’s worth asking whether formal regulation would fix the problem or just add another layer of bureaucracy, writes Christine Rolland.

The importance of technology for the future success of smaller legal firms has been underscored at a conference hosted by the Law Society of Scotland. Technology experts and smaller firm owners outlined the potential for technology to improve workplace efficiencies and client interactions while redu

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has defended the presumption against prosecuting children accused of rape amid a call for offenders under 16 to be treated as adults. Appearing before Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee yesterday, Ms Bain defended the Crown Office's policy of offering "diversion" as

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture that are being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report

Palestine Action has announced plans to challenge the UK government in court over its plans to proscribe the direct action protest group under terrorism legislation. Gareth Peirce of Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, a high-profile lawyer who previously represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Si

A fraudster who earned more than £500,000 by deceiving luxury hotels and stores into buying ‘unique’ Scottish-grown tea that was actually imported has been imprisoned for three-and-a-half years. Thomas Robinson, 55, of Dunkeld, Perthshire, also defrauded a group of genuine Scottish

Catriona Torrance has been promoted to partner in the private client team at Balfour and Manson. Ms Torrance qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and has specialised throughout her career in private client work, including wills, powers of attorney, succession planning, and trusts.

The board of the Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Rebecca Wyke as a deputy registrar. The announcement was made by Duncan Bagshaw, the registrar of the centre, at the centre’s arbitration training day in Edinburgh today.

With the UK’s most significant inheritance tax (IHT) reforms in nearly two decades set to roll out from April 2025, legal professionals must prepare for an influx of estate planning enquiries, according to a new YouGov survey commissioned by Brodies LLP. The survey of 2,001 UK adults aged 50+