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Lindsays has welcomed one of its biggest intake of trainee lawyers in a number of years. Eight new trainees have now started work, joining various departments at offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Perth.

A child named after a Game of Thrones character was mistakenly refused a UK passport out of concern that her name was trademarked by Warner Brothers. Six-year-old Khaleesi was named for the title taken by Emilia Clarke's character Daenerys Targaryen in the fantasy TV show, which was still airin

The owners of a Glasgow building given category C listed status due to its architectural and historic qualities have successfully appealed against a reporter’s decision to refuse an appeal against the decision to list it, and had the matter remitted to a new reporter. Weiss Development Company

Shoosmiths has increased its salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers, upping pay by eight per cent (from £90,000 to £97,000) in London and by five per cent regionally in England to £63,000. In Scotland and Belfast, the firm also raised its NQ rates to £57,000 and £37,

Millions of pounds are being wasted on unnecessary court appearances by police officers as it emerged that in one case they were summoned to give evidence against a dead man. The Scottish Police Federation said that 750 officers in northern Scotland have been cited since January, yet only 26 gave ev

Overcrowding in prisons is preventing the rehabilitation of offenders in Scotland, the head of inspections has warned. HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, called on the Scottish government to consider “radical justice options” to ease the pressure on prison

Irwin Mitchell has passed £300m revenue for the first time and significantly grown profit before tax in the most recent financial year. Group revenue at the firm, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, was up 10 per cent to £304.3 million for the year ending 30 April 2024 (FY23: &po

A man suffered age discrimination when an older colleague broke wind on him, a tribunal has ruled. The older man, a manager at Birmingham City Council in his mid-50s, also made comments about his colleague being a "newcomer" and "only a trainee", The Times reports.

A decision by Glasgow City Council to grant planning permission for a boundary fence with lockable gate at a sports pitch leased by a charitable trust has been reduced by a lord ordinary on the ground that it failed to consider a statutory duty to maintain access to land. Petitioner Gregory Brown ar

A drunk driver who drove his van down the wrong side of a busy dual carriageway and then rammed another motorist’s car has been jailed for 28 months. Slawomir Stiller, 49, was found to be almost six times over the legal driving limit following the incidents on the A9 near Inverness in May this

Andrew Stevenson takes a look back at an important and high-profile property law case from California. This year saw the 90th birthday of Frankie Valli. A superb falsetto and tenor singer, both as a solo performer and as frontman of the Four Seasons, the artist formerly known as Francesco Castellucc

House prices in Scotland have continued to edge upwards, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey. A net balance of 30 per cent of surveyors in Scotland reported that house prices increased over the past three months, the eighth consecutive mo

Lawyers for Shamima Begum have said they will launch proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights after exhausting UK appeals against the stripping of her British citizenship. The Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear an appeal against a Court of Appeal ruling which held that the revocation o

The number of full-time police officers in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level since 2007. Data from Scotland's chief statistician show that there were 16,207 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers on June 30, a decline of 148 since March 31.