An event to celebrate the achievements of the Lawscot Foundation’s first graduates has raised a further £1,200 to support aspiring lawyers.
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People across Scotland are being invited to learn more about land rights and responsibilities in a new, free series of webinars. Kicking off on 19 October, the informal 45-minute lunchtime sessions aim to stimulate practical change in how land is owned, used and managed. The Scottish Land Commission
Terra Firma Chambers has retained its Band 1 rankings for Planning and Environmental Law, Agriculture & Rural Affairs and Tax and added a further Band 1 ranking for Private Client in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners UK Legal Directory. In addition, Terra Firma was again ranked as a le
Westwater Advocates has received 27 individual and two top tier rankings in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide 2023. The stable is ranked Band 1 in the Employment and Family law categories. The stable membership is noted for offering “a good mix of seniority”, and the clerking team
Three men who turned disused industrial units into a cannabis farm valued at around £500,000 have been jailed for a combined total of 24 years and six months. Ross Blackshaw, Christopher Robb and Keith Gartshore ran the “sophisticated scheme” from converted buildings in Dalmarnock,
The Scottish government has lodged a legislative consent memorandum recommending that the Scottish Parliament withholds its consent for the UK government’s Retained EU Law (Reform and Revocation) Bill. The bill seeks to revoke over 2,400 pieces of EU legislation that were included in the UK st
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill does not solve existing tensions (which remain unresolved in the courts) between the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) and the Equality Act 2010 (“the EqA”), writes barrister Amanda Jones. The bill will introduce new conflicts with the EqA. T
Howard League Scotland has announced a series of film nights over the winter and early spring to raise and discuss important penal policy issues. The penal reform organisation has chosen films which are available on popular streaming platforms such as Netflix, BBC iPlayer or YouTube. Individuals wil
The High Court of Justiciary has allowed appeals by two of four co-accused found guilty of murdering a man in a drive-by shooting against the imposition of serious crime prevention orders under the Serious Crime Act 2015 due to commence after their release from prison. Darren Eadie and John Kennedy
A solicitor who swindled American investors out of $16 million (£13m) while acting for them in the purchase of the iconic Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, where Queen Victoria spent her honeymoon, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail – a term believed to be a new record for a lawyer guil
The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by a firm that sought the dismissal of an action raised against it by their former commercial agent in Scotland after it ruled that a plea of res judicata should have been accepted by the sheriff. Pursuer and respondent Hugh Beattie originally raised th
Two men who stabbed a stranger to death at a party after a drugs and alcohol binge have been jailed for life and seven years and three months respectively. Scott Hector, 20, died after being attacked at a flat in Aberdeen’s Marischal Court in April 2021.
Descendants of ECHR architect David Maxwell Fyfe sing in protest at corrosion of rights and freedoms
Members of the family of British champion of the European Convention on Human Rights, David Maxwell Fyfe, have sung in protest at UK government plans to withdraw from the Convention. In the wake of the ‘small boat’ crisis in the Channel, the UK government is threatening to take the UK ou
Aberdein Considine has strengthened its lender services practice group (LSPG) with the appointment of a new partner. Zarvin Vandrewala has been appointed a partner in the firm’s banking litigation team and he will be working with clients across the UK.
Misogynistic harassment could become a criminal offence as part of proposals aimed at providing greater protection for women and girls. A consultation has been launched on the draft reforms, which would create five new laws to provide police and prosecutors with new powers to tackle the "corrosive e