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Scottish Legal News has learned that former Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC has been appointed a temporary judge in advance of being installed as a Senator of the College of Justice. In response to the question of why Judge Mulholland was appointed before his formal installation, a spokesperson fo
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This Scottish Parliament has agreed the Equal Opportunities Committee remit be expanded to include scrutiny of human rights. The committee will now be known as the Equalities and Human Rights Committee, and its work programme, due to be published at the end of October, will reflect the expanded remi
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Ross Harper remembers Ross Harper, as author of this biography, certainly needs no introduction to Scottish lawyers given the number of legal roles, both in Scotland and at the International Bar Association, which he undertook during his lengthy career. That career included academia and the judiciar
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Partners at a City law firm were under fire yesterday after it was claimed they had billed the taxpayer over £100 million to defend the Royal Bank of Scotland against shareholders in what is thought to be one of the biggest awards to a law firm ever made. It was reported yesterday that Herbert Smit
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The recently released rankings from legal directory Legal 500 make excellent reading for Harper Macleod. The firm saw its number of recommended lawyers almost double to 43, while a 30 per cent increase in the number of specialist areas the firm is ranked in took this figure to 34. Harper Macleod als
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MacRoberts and Morton Fraser are in late stage merger talks, The Lawyer reports. A merger would establish a new firm with a turnover of £38 million, making it the sixth largest by revenue in Scotland.
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The University of Dundee’s Law School has been ranked tenth in the latest edition of the The Times’ Good University Guide 2017. Aberdeen University followed in 15th place, while Edinburgh took 16th. Glasgow University came in 18th, Abertay 19th and Strathclyde 22nd.
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A majority of Scots believe councils should do more to enforce laws which protect the safety of tenants in the private rented sector (PRS), according to a new poll commissioned by the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL). The survey found that 69 per cent of Scottish people believe councils shoul
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The Faculty of Advocates’ Criminal Appeal Service has taken on a new member of staff, Rachael Williamson, as its legal secretary. She joins Jacob Cohen, paralegal, at the hub of the service which was founded in January 2014 as a “one-stop shop” for solicitors.
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A St Bernard dog has been saved from destruction, after a successful appeal by counsel who acted pro bono. Douglas, a three-year-old St Bernard, attacked a jackadoodle, which had to be put down, and its owner in Arbroath, and a sheriff made an order for the dog’s destruction.
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Edinburgh-based legal historian Karen Baston’s monograph Charles Areskine’s Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment has been nominated by publisher Brill for the De Long Book History Prize Charles Areskine might be better known to legal scholars as Lord Tinwald
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Falkirk-based MTM Defence Lawyers has received a top-tier legal accreditation in the latest edition of the Legal 500. MTM is one of only four firms ranked as a top tier firm in Scotland for criminal law; the firm is also ranked and recommended for its work in fraud cases. MTM is recognised in the fo
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Lawyers at CMS took part in the Scottish Half Marathon and 10km on Sunday 18 September 2016.
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