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Thompsons has promoted Seonaid Brophy (pictured right) from the union accident team and Jillian Merchant (pictured below) from the firm’s employment law department to associate level. Ms Brophy joined Thompsons in 2012 after completing the Diploma. She started her traineeship in the lung disease t

Scotland is to become the only part of the UK with statutory targets to tackle child poverty after the Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill was unanimously passed by the Scottish Parliament.The bill will:

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Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh calls for lenders to show forbearance as legal action against debtors rises sharply south of the border.

Catherine Dyer Former Crown Office chief executive Catherine Dyer will head up an expert group on preventing sexual offending involving young people.

Philip Simpson QC The Supreme Court has today ruled that minimum unit pricing for alcohol, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2012, can now proceed.

A majority of members on Holyrood’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee have backed the general principles of the Gender Representation on Public Boards Bill, as it reports on its findings from stage 1 scrutiny. The bill as drafted sets a "gender representation objective" for public boards to ha

A challenge to the competency of a reclaiming motion which was designed to review not the interlocutor appealed against but an earlier interlocutor has been dismissed. The Inner House of the Court of Session repelled the objection after ruling that there was a “direct relationship” between the t

Alexander McCall Smith International best-selling author, Alexander McCall Smith, is teaming up with a nameless 17th century girl to help the fight against modern slavery and people trafficking.

Shona Robison Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol will come into force on 1 May 2018.

Academically gifted students from less advantaged backgrounds in Scotland will have their aspirations of a legal education realised after Dickson Minto agreed to donate £10,000 to the Lawscot Foundation. As platinum sponsor, the Edinburgh based firm will in essence, fund a Lawscot Foundation bursar

Austin Lafferty and John Mulholland are both in the running to become the next vice president of the Law Society of Scotland. Council members will vote for their preferred candidate and the result will be announced at the December meeting. The successful candidate will succeed current vice president

Every person in Scotland benefits from legal aid according to a new study which is the first of its kind in Scotland. In addition to identifying the benefits for individuals who directly receive legal aid, which include positive family relationships, better job prospects and better mental health, th

Alison Di Rollo QC The Solicitor General for Scotland, Alison Di Rollo QC is to address the annual Scottish Women’s Aid conference entitled "Trapped: Changing Our Understanding of Domestic Abuse".

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