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Innes & Mackay, a Highland firm of solicitors and estate agents, has celebrated its 150th anniversary.

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Alice Leggat as a director of the board and Laura West as a member of its court. Ms Leggat, a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales, is head of legal at SSE Thermal, a key business of SSE plc, where she advises on all manner of c

Harper Macleod proudly took part in the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas campaign. The firm’s collective efforts resulted in more than 100 donations, helping ensure that children, who might otherwise have woken up to nothing, experience the joy of receiving a gift on Christmas morning.

The Tayside property market is set for a strong year, according to local experts. Tayside Solicitors Property Centre reported an "exceptionally positive" end to 2024.

John Hill Burton was an advocate from 1831 and he became a significant figure in nineteenth century Scottish thought. His contribution is reassessed in this impressive study by an independent scholar. Burton’s practice may not have amounted to much, and in 1854 he was appointed secretary to th

The 2024 Shared Parenting Scotland annual user survey of clients who have received the charity’s help in the past year has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of parents representing themselves in Scottish courts because they cannot find a solicitor to represent them. Twenty per cent of

“Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears”. Surely some mistake, I thought; shouldn’t it be the other way round? Swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks? It was during Evensong at the magnificent Liverpool Cathedral last month that this

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of Jordan Little.   Mr Little, 25, who was employed as a general worker for Hodge Specialist Transport Limited, Craighead Farm, Abington, South Lanarkshire, died on the morning of 2

Neil Stevenson comments on an appeal to the Inner House in which judges clarified the meaning of 'complaint'. In its decision, the court has clarified that a 'complaint’ is the whole complaint made by the complainer, but also that for some sections of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotla

Scottish information commissioner David Hamilton has called for the urgent reform of key elements of Scotland’s freedom of information (FOI) law. FOI, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, gives people a legal right to receive information from public bodies, with organisations only

Police Investigations & Review Commissioner Michelle Macleod has received a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours list for services to criminal justice and law enforcement. She was appointed by ministers in June 2019 and began her five year term as commissioner on 17 August 2019. She

An appeal to the Sheriff Appeal Court by a supermarket after one of its customers at a West Dunbartonshire store was awarded £9,500 after tripping on a mat at the exit of the store has been refused after the court found that the sheriff had correctly applied the maxim of res ipsa loquitur. Pur

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, totalling in excess of £3 billion in deal value. Some of the corporate and M&A team’s most notable transactions this year included AOTI’s £140 m

Word reaches your scrivener that a well regarded seasoned journalist by the name of Claire Atkinson is engaged in writing an unauthorised biography of the old boss we both used to share, namely one Rupert Murdoch. But will she cover everything? Fans of the brilliant, yet chilling, HBO series Success