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Regulatory judge Lord Ericht visited the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to meet its independent advisory panel and hear about its plans for implementing the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 as well as the work which it will be doing to engage with consumer interests. The

Double silk Aidan O’Neill KC has been named Lawyer of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards 2026, sponsored by the Law Society of Scotland, recognising an outstanding legal career spanning almost four decades in some of the most complex areas of public and constitutional law. Of particular not

A Libyan man acquitted over the Lockerbie bombing has died at the age of 70, more than 35 years after the attack that killed 270 people. Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah was tried alongside Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. While Megrahi was convicted o

The Law Society of Scotland has released updated Guidance for conveyancing solicitors around the use of letters of obligation and advance notices. It is the first time the guidance has been updated since relevant sections of the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012 came into force in December 2

Two former members of staff at the New School Butterstone, which was closed in 2018 following allegations of physical mistreatment against pupils, have lost appeals in their damages claims against the Care Inspectorate, after the Sheriff Appeal Court found their averments to be lacking in relevancy

An attacker who struck a lone woman with a van, dragged her towards it and strangled her has been convicted. Safiya Anna Haverty, 28, formerly known as Sean Haverty, struck the victim with a van on Micheldever Road near Andover in Hampshire on 2 March, before dragging her towards the vehicle and str

Two men named Dan Sullivan are competing in Alaska’s Senate race, but only one has secured the endorsement of another politician – who is also named Dan Sullivan. Sen Dan S Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, was endorsed by former Anchorage mayor Dan A Sullivan last week ahead of Novemb

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Keith Bishop as a legal director in its Edinburgh construction team. A highly experienced construction lawyer, Mr Bishop is dual-qualified in Scotland and England and Wales, and has advised on both contentious and transactional construction matters throughou

Lecturers at Edinburgh Law School have been awarded funding by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research for their research project examining live facial recognition governance. Dr Lachlan Urquhart, senior lecturer in technology law and human-computer interaction at Edinburgh Law School, and Dr D

Gilson Gray has successfully concluded a landmark two-year international football employment dispute on behalf of former Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club technical director, Rene Hiddink. Led by David Winnie, partner and head of sport at the firm, the case is believed to be the first successful cla

New independent research into the experience of making a wills and trusts enquiry with Edinburgh law firms has found plenty to be positive about, but also suggests firms may be missing opportunities to turn good conversations into new clients, writes Steve Dunn. Law firms spend significant amounts o

A lord ordinary has relied on the reforms implemented by the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 to refuse access to the supervisory jurisdiction to a former student visa-holder who sought to challenge the Upper Tribunal’s decision to refuse permission to appeal against an adverse immigration

A father and son who failed in an attempt to smuggle more than £900,000 worth of cannabis into Scotland from East Asia have been sentenced. Stephen Harding, 67, and his son Bradley, 37, were stopped at Glasgow Airport by Border Force officers after arriving on a British Airways flight from Hea

Dr Eleanor Russell has been appointed as an honorary professor of law at Robert Gordon University. Dr Russell is a qualified solicitor and practised as such before entering academia in 1994.  She has over 30 years’ experience as a legal academic. She has acted as an external examiner at f