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Ampersand Advocates has once again secured its position among Scotland’s leading sets of counsel in the newly released 2026 edition of The Legal 500 United Kingdom Bar Guide. The rankings reaffirm Ampersand’s reputation for excellence across a broad spectrum of legal disciplines. In the

An annual mock trial supported by Scots lawyers to help promote legal education in schools will take place this weekend. The Edinburgh Schools MiniTrials will see children from eight local secondary schools taking part in mock assault and drugs trials which will be presided over by members of the Fa

The High Court of Justiciary has quashed a sheriff’s findings that a man who refused to attend a Housing Department meeting to be set up with approved housing during a period of supervised release had breached the conditions of his supervised release order, after finding that the procedure fol

Sahrawi organisations have condemned the European Commission for continuing to pursue a trade deal with Morocco which includes occupied Western Sahara in spite of a landmark EU court ruling. The Sahrawi people are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert.

Short-term prisoners due for release within the next six months are to be released early under "emergency proposals" to tackle prison overcrowding, if Holyrood agrees. The prison population has surged by more than 200 in the past three months and now stands at 8,363, one of the highest levels ever r

The Turkish government has been defeated in its bid to impose strict rules on doner kebabs across the EU. Germany had been the most vocal opponent of the Turkish application submitted under the EU's 'traditional speciality guaranteed' (TSG) scheme in 2022.

RTA Law LLP has announced the promotion of Zara Jones to partner. Ms Jones started her legal career with RTA Law initially as a summer student before commencing her traineeship in 2017. She is a passionate believer in the firm’s mission to protect and represent vulnerable road users, including

MSPs have unanimously backed the general principles of a new offence of dog theft – despite it already being a crime under the common law. The Dog Theft (Scotland) Bill, tabled by Conservative MSP Maurice Golden, follows the introduction of the offence of "pet abduction" in England and Norther

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Slater and Gordon has moved its Edinburgh office to 8 Charlotte Square. The Georgian townhouse is part of the Charlotte Square Collection, a portfolio of 23 properties within Edinburgh’s prime business address.

For over 25 years, John Sweetman worked as a detective garda attached to the Technical Bureau in police headquarters, Dublin. He qualified as a fingerprint expert and later as a security document and handwriting expert. He spent much of his time examining crime scenes, and later scenes of crime exhi

Measures to "enhance and improve" the performance of Holyrood committees have been published in a new report by the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. The report follows the committee’s inquiry on committee effectiveness which explored how committees were performing and w

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of Alan Brisbane, Charles Emslie, Colin Gibson, Dale Pattinson, Hugh MacPhail and James Smith.  Alan Brisbane, 60, Charles Emslie, 71, Colin Gibson, 62