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Aberdein Considine has bolstered its energy practice with a newly formed team of legal experts.

Thorntons has advised on a landmark deal that will secure new social housing for some of the country’s most vulnerable people. Its lawyers helped UK fund manager Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) to agree a £4.925m loan from its dedicated social housing fund to Registered Social Land

The corporate and M&A team at Harper Macleod advised on 42 transactions in October as business owners and acquiring companies acted ahead of Labour’s first budget in 14 years. With businesses anticipating a hike in capital gains tax (CGT) and other tax raising measures, the team saw a mark

Dallas McMillan Solicitors has announced three promotions. Craig Muirhead (litigation) and Rachel Hendry (commercial property) have been promoted to the partnership while Abbey Freer (conveyancing) has been promoted to associate.

Jones Whyte has announced the opening of a new office in Edinburgh.

The Faculty of Advocates’ fictional member is back in time for Christmas this year in Edward Kane, Advocate in The Hanged Man. Created by Ross Macfarlane KC in 2019, the popular series continues in The Scotsman every weekday from today until Christmas Eve.

Police have been led on a chase by a 12-year-old boy who travelled over 150 miles in his grandfather's car before being caught. The child took the stolen car on a 161-mile journey, starting in Issaquah in Washington, USA and travelling through the Cascade Mountains.

Sara Snell has been appointed as the new HM chief inspector of prisons for Scotland. She has extensive experience in the UK justice system having worked in HM Prison Service in England and Wales for 25 years.

Terra Firma Chambers has won the award for Stable of the Year at the Legal 500 Scotland Awards 2024. Kenneth Young made it a double celebration for TFC by picking up the award for Junior of the Year.

Black Chambers has announced Angela Gray KC as its newest member. Ms Gray has been an advocate depute for over a decade (24 years as a prosecutor in total), during which time she represented the Crown in a wide range of High Court trials, and also appeared for the lord advocate at the Supreme Court

A sheriff has ordered a materials processing company to pay just over £58,000 to a civil engineering contractor in respect of an overpayment made during a dispute about volumes of excavated rock at a landfill site after finding that the defender had been unjustly enriched at the pursuer’

Applicants for rights over land under the Electronic Communications Code should investigate who occupies the land before raising proceedings, otherwise they risk causing unnecessary expense by directing the proceedings against the wrong party, the Lands Tribunal for Scotland held on 20 November in N

The clerking team at Compass Advocate has been awarded “Clerking Team of the Year 2024” at the Legal 500 Scotland Awards. The team is made up of Gavin Herd, Lesley Hogg, Leona Crosby, Jamie Black, Erica Marmo, Lucy McConville and Cleo McCann. Some of the quotes about the team in the Lega