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His Majesty The King has approved the appointment of Lord Doherty as a justice of the Supreme Court. Lord Doherty has sat as a judge of the Inner House since 2020.

Reed Smith has successfully advised the appellants in a shipping case that focused on the 1881 judgment of Mackay v Dick. In King Crude Carriers SA and others v Ridgebury November LLC and others, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s judgment that the sellers had

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised the National Wealth Fund (NWF) on a landmark £62.1 million loan to Orkney Islands Council (OIC). The significant transaction will fund the development of a six-turbine community wind farm at Quanterness.

A man who supplied drugs and offered to source deadly weapons to criminal associates has been jailed for six years following a prosecution by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).  Glasgow garage owner Kristopher Kinnaird, 42, supplied cocaine worth around £120,000 every

Ahsan Mustafa looks at the impact of recent changes to debt recovery rules. Seven months have now passed since the Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 came into effect. The changes, which amended parts of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987, updated how much of a person&rs

Michael Ross, director in Anderson Strathern's risk and compliance team, stresses the importance of lawyers' engagement in the UK's new Anti-Money Laundering consultation. The UK Government has confirmed sweeping reforms to how Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) superv

Andrew Stevenson strikes a note of caution over Parliament issuing pardons or quashing convictions. Mention has been made before in this column of the general need to preserve the separation of powers between the courts and the executive. This constitutional safeguard is there to protect the li

Holyrood has approved plans to release some short-term prisoners early due to rising prison numbers. Following parliamentary approval of the regulations, this means:

Harper Macleod has grown its banking and finance team and appointed a new partner. New partner Liana Di Ciacca joins with more than 15 years’ experience on a wide range of complex and high-value debt finance transactions. She advises both funders and borrowers on high profile Scots law matters

Lawyers and charities across the UK are marking the 24th annual Pro Bono Week this week, recognising the impact of free legal assistance provided by volunteers nationwide to those who would otherwise be unable to access such support. The week’s events showcase the breadth of pro bono support a

Postmasters that suffered shortfalls as a result of the faulty Capture accounting software can now apply for redress as the UK government launches its new Capture Redress Scheme.  The scheme follows the government's acceptance of findings of an investigation by independent forensic accountants

Angela Grahame KC has been named a doctor of the university by Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Since she was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995, she has gone on prosecute major High Court cases, took silk in 2009, and become only the second women in nearly 500 years to be named vice-dea

A Holyrood committee has backed another prisoner release scheme amid warnings of an “emergency situation” in Scotland’s prisons.

Thomas Ross KC examines the collapse of the Bayoh inquiry. The resignation of Lord Bracadale from his position as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry after 122 days of evidence – followed by the mass resignation of all the counsel to the inquiry three days later – no doubt led the public to

For those of us who live in or commute to Scotland’s major towns and cities to work, our encounters with the countryside are often brief – and usually recreational.  Of course, the rural and agricultural sector has been crucial to the country’s economy for centuries, with 80 p