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Gilson Gray has expanded into Tayside with a new Dundee office. Located on South Tay Street, the Dundee team will be providing the firm's full range of services, from legal and property services to financial advice.
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A sixth member of the family law team at Balfour and Manson has been accredited as a specialist in the field by the Law Society of Scotland. Jamie Foulis joins colleagues Shona Smith, Linda Walker, Iain Thomson, Kirsten Knight and Anne McTaggart, who have already been recognised for their skill in f
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Lawyers have expressed dismay about the state of the legal job market in Scotland after a single legal traineeship attracted 120 applications. Glasgow-based firm Dallas McMillan sought a trainee earlier this month to begin in the summer.
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Judges will be kept out of politics under plans to reform judicial review, the Lord Chancellor has said. Robert Buckland QC MP said the judiciary needed protection after a series of cases saw political decision-making “contracted out” to judges whose independence ought to be preserved.
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The legality of Police Scotland's controversial 'cyber kiosks', which will be rolled out next week despite the Justice Secretary's expectation they will attract a legal challenge, has been questioned by a civil liberties expert. Dr Nick McKerrell, senior lecturer in law at Glasgow Caledonian Univers
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Blackadders Solicitors has announced the promotion of Pamela Gaffar to legal director with immediate effect. Ms Gaffar, who heads the conveyancing team in Dundee, joined Blackadders as a trainee back in 2009.
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The High Court in London has today ruled the £1,012 fee the Home Office charges children to register as British citizens is unlawful. In a case brought by the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC), the court found a “mass of evidence” showing that the
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Scottish Legal News now has 10,000 followers on Twitter, underlining its primacy as the leading daily news service for Scotland’s legal community. SLN managing editor Graham Ogilvy said: “Once again, I would like to thank our readers along with Kapil Summan and all of the SLN team for he
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Elves from MacRoberts took time out to spread some Christmas cheer and help Santa deliver presents to kids at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.
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The Law Society of Scotland’s Planning Law Sub-Committee is inviting Scottish solicitors and interested stakeholders to share their views on the subject of planning obligations under section 75 (Planning Obligations) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.
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The chair of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has resigned amid an attack on "accountability arrangements" in Police Scotland. Professor Susan Deacon said in her resignation letter to Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf that these are "fundamentally flawed".
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A Holyrood committee is undertaking an inquiry into protected trust deeds (PTDs) amid concerns over their use. PTDs are a type of insolvency, similar to bankruptcy, which commits the debtor to an agreed payment schedule in return for a substantial write-off of debt and protection from creditors.
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Aberdein Considine has been named UK Law Firm of the Year at a lender industry award ceremony in London. The Mortgage Finance Gazette Awards – which took place in Kensington last night - celebrate the best of the British banking and financial services sector.
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The case of Dickie & Moore Limited v The trustees of the Lauren McLeish Discretionary Trust is a good example of how, sometimes, a scattergun approach is best used to try to resist an adjudicator’s award, writes Greg Flett. In this action, an adjudicator determined that Dickie & Moore,
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Glasgow lawyer Mike Dailly has joined the Evening Times as a columnist. The solicitor advocate, who campaigns for social justice and community rights, said it was the “the best community paper ever”.
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