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Lomond Group has expanded its Scottish portfolio with the acquisition of Aberdein Considine's residential lettings business. The deal adds 1,700 properties, from across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and the central belt, to Lomond's Scotland brand, DJ Alexander, bringing its total managed properties

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has been named Private Client Team of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards.

The Tumbling Lassie Committee will host two events next month to acknowledge Anti-Slavery Day and provide opportunities to reflect on and raise awareness of the ongoing human trafficking and modern slavery in Scotland. On Thursday 10 October the committee will hold its annual anti-slavery seminar, e

A woman who had a placement request for her child with additional support needs refused by her local authority had successfully had an appeal against the refusal remitted for reconsideration to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland’s Health and Education Chamber. Appellant JH, whose younger son

The School Mock Court Case Project (SCIO) is looking for lawyer volunteers. SCIO provides educational programmes in which students get the opportunity to learn about legal rights and citizenship through realistically enacted mock court trials.

A man who murdered his partner after returning home from watching football has been jailed for life. John Higgins admitted fatally attacking Amanda McAlear at her home in Glasgow on May 7, 2022. The 64-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of murder at the High Court in Glasgow on July 31, at the star

A possessions check should have been carried out on a woman who died of multi-organ failure caused by paracetamol intoxication, a fatal accident inquiry has concluded. Elizabeth McCready, 49, died on 30 June 2018 at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Human rights lawyer Mashal Aamir has been named as the recipient of the 2024 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

Legislative proposals to help reduce the number of domestic homicides and suicides in Scotland have been published at Holyrood. If passed by MSPs, the Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill, would require a robust new review process to take place follow

Crates of bananas delivered to a discount supermarket chain were found to contain €7 million worth of cocaine. The drugs – 95 kilograms in total – were delivered to a number of stores in cities across the western German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, police said.

Blackadders LLP is celebrating after paralegal Nikki Scott was named Paralegal of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards last week. Ms Scott was raised in a small town in Wisconsin and is the mother of eight and grandmother of 10. She started her legal career at the age of 50 and has been with Blacka

Several people have been arrested in Switzerland, known for its liberal laws on assisted dying, in connection with a woman's death in a so-called "suicide pod". Prosecutors in Schaffhausen, the country's northern-most canton, were notified on Monday by a law firm that an assisted suicide with the Sa

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute appeals from both defence and prosecution lawyers for a delay. Marcellus Williams, 55, was already serving a lengthy prison sentence for burglary offences when he was convicted in 2

Diversion from prosecution cases have risen sharply in Scotland. The number now sits at its highest since recording began, having increased by 28 per cent to 3,354 in the year to the end of March 2024.