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Westwater Advocates and its members receive top rankings from Chambers & Partners in the 2024 edition of the Chambers UK Bar Guide. The stable has received 26 individual rankings across eight categories and is also recognised as a Band 1 stable in the practice areas of Employment and Family law.

Arnot Manderson Advocates has obtained 24 individual rankings including 8 in Band 1 across fourteen wide ranging practice areas in the recently announced Chambers and Partners listings. As well as the haul of individual rankings Arnot Manderson has achieved stable wide recognition in Private Client,

New evidence alleging a conflict of interest in a Supreme Court justice's involvement in legal cases over the collapse of Rangers Football Club has emerged. Lord Hodge, 70, led a panel of three judges who dismissed an appeal made by the businessman David Grier, who had been appointed as an administr

The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that a Glasgow sheriff was correct to find that the term “hun” used in a footballing context was a sectarian remark capable of aggravating an offence by religious prejudice after an appeal against conviction by a Celtic supporter who used the term when a

The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law will host a symposium to discuss the monograph Claiming a Promised Inheritance: a Comparative Study by Edinburgh Law School's Professor Alexandra Braun. The book examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, la

Dallas McMillan has won the Gold Awards for Glasgow at the British Property Awards 2023. The firm’s conveyancing and estate agency team is headed by Richard Andrew, a partner in the firm, and he is supported by Louise Hardie, Abbey Freer and Taylor Cameron.

11 October – Reading Room, Parliament House Research into the use and popularity of litigation crowdfunding in Scotland will be outlined by a senior law lecturer at an upcoming event in Edinburgh next month.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an appeal by the Greater Glasgow Health Board against a decision that it had unfairly dismissed a hospital supervisor after finding that the Employment Tribunal had reached an erroneous conclusion on the facts. Stephen Mullen was awarded over £9,000 by

Spencer West has expanded its Scottish team and taken offices in Glasgow.

Dallas McMillan Solicitors held its annual Charity Race Night at Hughenden Rugby Club to raise money for the firm’s two charity partners – SAMH and The Good Morning Service. In total, £10,000 was raised on the evening. Among the prizes won at auction were signed Scotland Men&r

The High Court of Justiciary has tripled a fine imposed on a care home that pled guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following the death of a resident after the Crown challenged the original level of fine as being unduly lenient. Tigh-Na-Muirn Ltd pled guilty to the

True crime fans in for a treat as the detective who brought Peter Tobin to justice hosts a stage show in Dundee next month.

A landlord who was ordered to pay £4,000 to two former tenants after being found in breach of tenancy deposit regulations has had the sum reduced by £1,500 on appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. Gordon Bavaird, a landlord since 2017, had originally taken a deposit from tenants Lis

Pictured (L-R): Louisa Clark, Lauren Irwin, Alanis Hunt, Sorcha Hill, Emma Kelly, Shona Christie, Martin Clement, Daniel Leyden Dallas McMillan Solicitors has taken on four new first year trainees, taking the total number of trainee solicitors employed by the firm to eight. They will work in the pro

The family of a man who died of cardiac arrest who alleged that the NHS Scotland health board responsible for his treatment was vicariously liable for his death has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court challenging a decree of absolvitor granted to the board. Jennifer McCulloch, wife of the late Neil