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Clyde & Co has announced a raft of promotions across its Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. A total of 13 promotions have been made, strengthening the firm’s expertise within its healthcare, disease, SHE & regulatory and catastrophic injury teams.

Three of Lindsays' teams have recently welcomed new solicitors. In Edinburgh, Shiona Wylie has joined the private client team in her first role as a qualified solicitor. head of private client, partner Grant Johnson said: “We are pleased to welcome Shiona to our team and look forward to seeing

A teenage girl has been apprehended after allegedly taking a New York City subway train on a joyride and crashing it. Police say the 17-year-old, along with a companion who has not yet been caught, boarded the empty train just after midnight last Thursday 12 September.

Gillespie Macandrew has appointed five newly qualified solicitors, each of whom has completed their two-year legal traineeship programme. The newly qualified solicitors are Jenny Purdie specialising in private client, Jenna Wayth in construction dispute resolution, Thomas Anderson in land & rura

The ‘new’ Electronic Communications Code came into force at the end of 2017. It is a schedule to the Communications Act 2003. It governs telecoms masts and other ‘electronic communications apparatus’; specifically, relations between their operators and the owners or tenants o

Family lawyers and child law litigators are not the only ones concerned with children: criminal lawyers, probably somewhat behind sociologists and criminologists, will have noted the number of young children arrested and charged with serious crimes. The police and court activity following widespread

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal by a doctor against the removal of his name from the medical register following his conviction for a domestically aggravated offence under section 38(1) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Dr Muhammad Masood was mad

The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) has announced his decision to transfer Campsie High Kirk in Lennoxtown into community ownership for use as an arts, cultural and community events hub.

The opening of the legal year is to be livestreamed for the first time from the Court of Session. On Monday 23 September, the ceremony to mark the beginning of the 2024-25 term will be available to watch as it happens on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals website.

Plans to boost the use of Scots and Gaelic in traditional areas have passed stage one at Holyrood. MSPs have voted for the general principles of the Scottish Languages Bill.

A new approach to supporting children and families affected by violence and abuse has been welcomed by an independent report. Social work experts at the University of Edinburgh have praised the initiative, which seeks to improve delivery of essential services to child victims and witnesses.

As part of Major Trauma Awareness Week, Brenda Mitchell highlights the role of personal injury lawyers. Major trauma is defined as a serious injury that has the potential to cause long-term disability or death. Every year, thousands across the UK suffer major injuries in road traffic accidents (RTAs

A consultation seeking views on reducing trauma for bereaved families of child homicide victims caused by the publicity arising from such cases is still looking for responses ahead of its deadline next month. Justice Secretary Angela Constance published the consultation in July after hearing from be

Northern Ireland's Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information (ICRIR) is "irreparably toxic and tainted" and should be scrapped, Amnesty International has said. The human rights organisation issued a statement ahead of Friday's Northern Ireland Court of Appeal ruling in the Dillon cas