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Sir Tom Hunter The Hunter Foundation has teamed up with some of the UK’s leading European scholars to produce a free ebook to answer voters’ questions before the EU referendum on 23 June.

Aidan O’Neill QC Two ex-pat Britons have failed in their High Court bid for the right to vote in the EU referendum in June.

Jamie McNeill Demand for middle to high end residential property in Edinburgh city centre and the surrounding areas has taken a dramatic upturn since the start of 2016, reports property consultancy, CKD Galbraith.

Personal insolvencies in the fourth quarter of 2015-16, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs), dropped 13.3 per cent from the same period in the previous year according to new figures from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB). The number of personal insolvencies in Scotland

Neil Stevenson Experts from a range of professional regulators came together at the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) this week to discuss sanctions in professional regulation – actions taken when an individual doesn’t meet their professional obligations. They were joined by representa

The controversial frontrunner in the Philippine presidential elections has vowed to pardon himself for murder if elected. Rodrigo Duterte, 71, has a comfortable lead over the other candidates in the south-east Asian country's looming election in May.

A former senior judge has criticised the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd’s proposals to allow more arbitration awards to come before the courts. Writing in The Times, Lord Saville of Newdigate, a retired law lord and Supreme Court justice, said the proposed change would be a "wholly re

David Johnstone The demand for more transparency over land ownership in Scotland will be at the heart of a landowners’ conference next month.

Professor Jim Murdoch The University of Glasgow’s professor of public law, Jim Murdoch, is to receive the fifth annual "European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities".

A retired lawyer has won a dispute with his former partners in a solicitors’ firm over his entitlement to a share of the partnership assets. A judge has ruled that the partnership agreement made no provision for division of the firm’s assets on the retirement of a partner due to age, and therefo

Professor Lorne Crerar and Martin Darroch

John Rutherford Aberdeen based John Rutherford has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a consultant to head up and develop the firm’s Aberdeen operations.

Richard Lloyd A company that made over 2.5 million nuisance calls has been handed a £50,000 fine.

The Faculty of Advocates 2015 by Mark Roscoe, associate member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Courtesy of Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists

Jessica Simor QC The candidates competing to be the next British judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been named, The Guardian reports.