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Glasgow-based Mitchells Roberton has promoted Laura Burns to associate in the solicitor firm's private client department. Ms Burns, a graduate of Strathclyde University, joined Mitchells Roberton in January 2018.

Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, has been appointed to the Council of the International Bar Association Section on Public and Professional Interest (IBA SPPI). The IBA is the foremost organisation for international legal practitioners, with a membership of 80,000

A man who decided to become a lawyer because of his family's experience of a land dispute when he was six years old has managed to win the property back 23 years later. Jordan Kinyera, 29, took up his father's case in the long-running dispute and, on Monday, the High Court in Uganda ruled in his fav

A woman has been convicted of fraud in what is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK by an insurance company against a so-called "slip-and-trip" fraudster. Former law student Farida Ashraf, 41, was given a 21-month suspended sentence in Bradford Crown Court yesterday after pretendin

A man who convinced his colleagues he was a barrister so he could pursue his “obsession” with a career in law has been jailed. Scott Willey, 27, pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation, one count of making/supplying an article for the use of fraud, one count of fa

Representatives of the top courts in each of the 28 EU member states visited Dublin this week for a two-day seminar. The Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe) seminar was hosted by the Supreme Court of Ireland and its president,

At least half of the UK's judges should be women, the President of the UK Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has said. The UK's most senior judge made the remarks while reflecting on the centenary of women's entry to the legal profession at an event hosted by the Association of Women Judges (AWJ), The Telegr

Solicitor advocate Lesley Anderson has opened a new law firm in Falkirk, Lesley Anderson Law. Ms Anderson has spent the last decade in the town as a solicitor advocate with Russel + Aitken.

The Lawscot Foundation will benefit from cash raised by a London Marathon runner for the first time this year. Sarah Johnston, 39, is completing the 26.2 mile course to raise funds for the social mobility charity, which supports law students who have faced obstacles whilst growing up.

One of Scotland's leading experts in forensic science will discuss the role of science in the courtroom with a senior member of the Australian judiciary at a conference later this month. Professor Niamh Nic Daeid, director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the Univers

Two innovative judges from the US made a big impression with talks on "therapeutic justice" at a Faculty of Advocates seminar - and it seems Scotland made a big impression on them. Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren spoke of pioneering America’s mental health courts, while Judge Victoria Pratt discussed

DWF has completed its initial public offering and is now trading on the London Stock Exchange, making it the UK's largest listed law firm. The entire issued ordinary share capital of 300,000,000 shares was today admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA and to trad

A new series of talks at the University of Dundee will explore the use of forensic science within the criminal justice system. Forensic science experts and leading criminal lawyers will be among speakers at the "Crime Café" series hosted by the university's Leverhulme Research Centre for Fore

Northern Ireland prosecutors have announced that a single British soldier is to be charged with two murders and four attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in 1972. Lawyers for the families of those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday have welcomed the prosecution, but voiced their disappointment that 1

Senior Irish lawyers will travel to Washington D.C. this week to launch a Government-backed initiative to promote Ireland as an international legal centre after Brexit. The Law Society of Ireland's director-general Ken Murphy and president Patrick Dorgan are travelling to the US today and will take