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Alistair Morris Alistair Morris, the former chief executive of collapsed law firm Pagan Osborne has resigned from the Scottish government’s review of legal services, The Herald reports.

Usman Tariq Advocate Usman Tariq has spoken to the School of Law at Glasgow University about his life at university and career so far at the Scottish bar.

Laurence Kennedy Advocate Laurence Kennedy has written to the Lord Justice Clerk following our report on the appeal of KM v HMA in which the court was highly critical of defence counsel. In the opinion issued by the court counsel was identified only as "L Kennedy". Unfortunately there are two advoca

Robert Burns found his friendship with Writer to the Signet Robert Ainslie to be "almost necessary to my existence". Robert Pirrie, chief executive of the WS Society, reveals how the Scottish bard and the Edinburgh lawyer formed an enduring friendship as their remarkably candid correspondence b

Douglas Mill SLN readers will have detected a recent dimming of the Northern Lights.

Rod McKenzie The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has today announced the appointment of a new team of in-house and external legal advisers.

A man was removed from court after her called the judge “mate”. Antony Dickinson was sent to the cells at Hull Crown Court during the trial of Benjamin Bowden, accused of causing the deaths of two people, including Dickinson’s sister, by careless driving.

Sarah Jayne Millar Gildeas Solicitors' Sarah Jayne Millar has gained her paralegal certificate in Civil Litigation: Reparation Law.

Douglas Mill I still can't quite believe the response to my earlier article on the implications of the Pagan Osborne collapse. Literally dozens of solicitors have e-mailed or spoken to me. It seems most of them share my views that this latest case could cost the profession limited liability status,

Chloe Tennant Gildeas Solicitors has congratulated its cash room assistant Chloe Tennant, who obtained her SOLAS (The Society of Law Accountants in Scotland) qualification last month.

An accused man’s request for legal assistance was denied after he asked police for a “lawyer dog”. Failing to understand the colloquial use of "dog", a judgment from the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that 24-year-old Warren Demesme’s constitutional right to legal advice had not been denied,

Sarah McWhirter Travelling the country is no problem for Scottish-borders born solicitor and keen hill runner Sarah McWhirter.