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A former Dundee solicitor has been ordered to pay a woman £4,000 in compensation after being struck off earlier this year. Alan Baillie, 66, was ordered to pay Lorraine Ludman in the wake of a case over a land ownership dispute in Argyll.

Under-18s are no longer being detained in young offenders' institutions anywhere in Scotland. The remaining children previously detained in YOI Polmont have been moved into secure care settings, and no regulations which came into force last week provide for no new admissions of children under 18 to

Compass Chambers has welcomed Gavin Anderson KC back to practice after serving as a full-time advocate depute in the Crown Office since 2021. As a member of the principal Crown counsel team, Mr Anderson was lead Crown counsel for the Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit and the Health and Safety I

Catherine Smith KC has been appointed by the new UK government as Advocate General for Scotland.

Neilsons Solicitors and Estate Agents has formed a new partnership with The Spartans FC. The Spartans FC is one of Edinburgh’s most respected local football clubs, competing at a high level in Scottish League Two.

Legal professionals are invited to take to the streets of Dundee in October for a sponsored walk in aid of charity Access to Justice. The first Legal Walk in the city occurred in 2022 when 30 legal professionals raised £700 for the cause.

Shoplifting is up by more than a third since last year, according to new police figures. The latest recorded crime figures reveal that 40,554 alleged shoplifting crimes were reported to police in the year ending June 2024, up from 30,202 the previous year and 27,045 in the year ending June 2020.

The Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to give permission for a farming partnership to challenge an arbitrator’s decision that an expulsion notice served on a member of a farming partnership was invalid on the ground of legal error. The petitioners, who sought to expel a member of

Jennifer Wallace has joined Thompsons Solicitors Scotland as a salaried partner. Ms Wallace graduated from the University of Dundee and qualified as a solicitor in 2005. Having worked in both civil and commercial litigation, she has extensive experience in appearing at court for clients and has beco

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new award to celebrate legal pioneers within the sector as part of its 75th anniversary commemorations. Nominations for the Legal Pioneer Award are open to both solicitors and non-solicitors - past or present - who have made a significant contribution to Sc

A solicitor who embezzled from a Grangemouth law firm has been struck from the roll. Leo McGarvey, 56, was jailed for 10 months at Falkirk Sheriff Court in December 2022 after admitting that he embezzled £7,000 from RGM Solicitors in La Porte Precinct.

New initiatives to increase access to residential rehabilitation across Scotland which will be able to support more than 100 residential rehab placements have been introduced. Local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) that are experiencing high demand will be able to access extra funding from the n

Prisoner transfer firm GEOAmey was responsible for inmates arriving to court late more than 14,000 times in the six months to last September, new figures show. As a result, there were 1,516 delays to court proceedings due to late arrivals or failures to bring prisoners to courtrooms. In addition, th

Public sector fraud in Scotland has risen by almost 50 per cent according to Audit Scotland. A data matching exercise, part of the UK-wide National Fraud Initiative (NFI), detected £21.5 million worth of fraud and payment errors across the Scottish public sector.