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Stephen McGowan Stephen McGowan, partner and head of licensing (Scotland) at TLT, has received a specialist accreditation from the Law Society of Scotland in liquor licensing law in recognition of his extensive and wide-reaching skills and experience in this area.

Yesterday's St Andrewstide Service at St Giles was attended by the Order of the Thistle, accompanied by the Secretary, Green Rod and the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The sermon was preached by Very Rev. Professor Iain Torrance TD, Dean of the Thistle.​ Via @LyonCourt.

The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal has found Torquil MacLeod, formerly of Torquil MacLeod & Co, in Inverness, guilty of professional misconduct after he charged grossly excessive fees to an executry and failed to render fee notes in respect of the fees taken. He has been fined £3,00

A lawyer and former educator has said reusing old questions in a bar exam is “not a big deal”. Antonio La Viña, a former dean at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines made the comments after it emerged that the 2017 bar exams used questions from previous years’ tests.

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Mike Dailly Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly suggests a solution to the problem of competing governing clauses.

Lucy Thornton The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association (SYLA) has announced a new committee for the remainder of 2017/2018 following a recruitment drive and changes to the Executive Committee. Laura Meldrum (Anderson Strathern) who has been president of SYLA since May 2016, has opted to step down f

Anna Poole QC (left) and Leslee Udwin The award-winning film producer/director, Leslee Udwin, has thanked the Faculty of Advocates for a special screening of her controversial documentary, India's Daughter.

A tenant who challenged a sheriff’s decision that he was liable to pay his former landlord two months’ unpaid rent has had his appeal dismissed. The Sheriff Appeal Court upheld the sheriff’s ruling that the landlord’s breach of certain statutory obligations did not render the lease agreement

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Two names in the sheriff officer profession have joined forces in a new venture; Fraser Irvine Sheriff Officers. The firm is a collaboration between Alex Irvine (pictured right) and Andrew Fraser (pictured below).

Two US Navy pilots have been disciplined for drawing a massive penis in the sky over Washington state, the Military Times reports. The punishment is not disclosed, but the pair will keep their jobs.

Lawscot Foundation trustee Laura Butcher got the bauble rolling when she made the first donation to the Lawscot Foundation as part of this year’s Baublefest campaign. For every donation made at the Law Society’s Edinburgh office or through the Lawscot Foundation website, a new bauble featuring t

Michael O’Flaherty Persistent widespread discrimination, intolerance and hatred across the EU threatens to marginalise and alienate many minority group members who otherwise feel largely attached to the country they live in and trust its institutions, according to findings from a major repeat surv