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Kee Solicitors has announced the appointment of Nick Hay, who joins the firm's property & conveyancing department as a partner. Mr Hay has more than a decade of experience as a conveyancing solicitor and brings with him a wealth of experience with transactions of varying scale and complexity.

The legacy of the Post Office scandal shows the rules around legal professional privilege need urgent reform, a new report shows. Ethical standards and rules about corporate governance should be strengthened to prevent abuse of privilege, experts from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter have said.

Bankability is key in the world of infrastructure and energy investment, as it indicates whether or not a risk is acceptable to third party lenders who are generally considered to be cautious by nature, writes Gillian Frew. But the growing complexity caused by energy transition technologies and regu

The court system south of the border is facing a potential crisis as criminal barristers leave the profession for better-paid roles, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has warned. Mary Prior KC, who leads the CBA, highlighted how young barristers entering criminal law out of a sense of

Darren Murdoch, president of the Scottish Law Agents Society, details the worrying results of a survey. The interim results of the Scottish Law Agents Society (SLAS) survey on regulation of the legal profession highlight a deeply concerning overwhelming dissatisfaction with the current regulatory sy

Professor Chloë Kennedy has been awarded over £372,000 from the Leverhulme Trust for a new research project entitled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The four-year project will be led collaboratively with co-investigators Dr Alice Krzanich (University of Aberdeen) and

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has determined that an Icelandic woman who was divorced from her husband by decree in absence in Dunfermline Sheriff Court in 2021 was entitled to have that decree reduced. Linda Hafthorsdotir sought to reduce her divorce from Bjarni Eyvindsson, aft

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Russia jails lawyers who acted for late opposition leader Alexei Navalny | BBC News

Pinsent Masons has announced it has agreed to lease more than 31,000 sq ft of Grade A office space in the Aurora building at 120 Bothwell Street, Glasgow.

The Moon has been named as a threatened heritage site in anticipation of future commercial lunar landings. The World Monuments Fund (WMF), a charity founded in the 1960s, named the Moon among 25 sites on its 2025 watchlist – the first time that it has included a site in outer space, The Art Ne

Boutique  Edinburgh firm Connell and Connell has promoted solicitor Chloe Davidson to associate. Ms Davidson, a specialist in Scottish residential property, joined Connell and Connell from D J Alexander Legal and has been with the firm since 2020.

SJ Macdonald, who works across WJM's Scottish offices as part of the firm's wills & trusts disputes team has been elected as a committee member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Contentious Trusts and Estates Global SIG Steering Committee. This follows her appointment as v

Glasgow City Council has succeeded in an appeal against a ruling that permitted motorists who received a low emission zone (LEZ) penalty by untracked post to have their fines overturned. The Transport Appeal Tribunal for Scotland ruled in October 2023 that LEZ fines which the council had failed to s