MFMac has announced the promotion of four legal directors to partner. The promotions follow the appointment of Claire Macpherson (private client) and Shaz Khalid (corporate) as partners at the start of the year and represent the first internal partner promotions since the 2023 merger between MacRobe
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Hundreds of illicit items have been confiscated at Ayrshire’s courthouses over the past three years, despite both sheriff courts operating for extended periods without consistent security cover. Figures obtained through a freedom of information request by Ayrshire Weekly Press show that almost
Many countries made significant progress in implementing judgments and decisions from the European Court of Human Rights in 2025 but a number of important challenges remain, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. The report shows that the Com
A man who raped a vulnerable teenage girl in his vehicle after offering her a lift home has been jailed. Victor Popa, 35, attacked the stranded 14-year-old after picking her up from a taxi rank in Aberdeen in the early hours of 15 January 2023.
Gillespie Macandrew has announced the appointment of two new partners and 13 further promotions across its legal team. Caitlin Keegan, from the firm’s residential property team, and Fraser Vandal, from the employment law team, have been promoted to partner.
An e-bike cyclist who killed an elderly man while riding on the pavement has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment suspended for two years for his manslaughter in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the country. Clifford Cage was riding an e-bike along City Way in Rochester on 6
A teenager who was injured in a crowd crush at Glasgow's TRNSMT Festival has settled a legal action for a four-figure sum. Jessica Gatherer, now 19, sought assistance from Digby Brown Solicitors to bring an action against ESM Operations, G4S and DF Concerts.
Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain has spoken of her "profound hope" that a man's landmark conviction for culpable homicide following his wife's suicide will deepen understanding of domestic abuse in Scotland. Dorothy Bain KC yesterday addressed around 200 people at an event in Parliament Hall organised by
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a review of private dentistry in all four parts of the UK. Demand for private dentistry has risen sharply in recent years, with one in five people in Great Britain using private dental care in 2024.
The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Wood Group £13 million after concluding that a "poor operating culture" at the Aberdeen-based engineering firm led it to publish misleading financial information to investors over a three-year period.
Jacqui Taylor has been appointed permanent chamber president of the Local Taxation Chamber and Joy Hosie has been appointed permanent chamber president of the Social Security Chamber. Ms Taylor has been a legal member of the First-tier Tribunal (Housing and Property) Chamber since it was established
An appeal by a party to a share purchase agreement who stopped making payments under the agreement after forming a view that he had been fraudulently induced into entering the SPA against a sheriff’s decision that he had pled no relevant defence to an action for payment has been refused by the
Bank of Ireland UK has been fined more than £3.7 million for failing to implement UK anti-fraud rules by the required deadline.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a fine imposed on search giant Google which is roughly a million times more than the combined GDP of the entire world. Judge Sergei Samuylov said there were no grounds to review the imposition of the 91.5 quintillion rouble fine (around €1.2 quintillion or &pou
Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has said she is not considering her position after coming under sustained criticism from opposition MSPs over an email she sent to the first minister concerning criminal allegations against the former SNP chief executive, Peter Murrell. Ms Bain wrote to John Swinney in
