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Thorntons has announced Paul Adams and John Smart as partners for its first office in Inverness alongside a further eight appointments. The new team joins from Wright, Johnston and Mackenzie.

The average selling price of property in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders dropped 6.6 per cent year-on-year to £273,348, according to new figures from ESPC. The average percent of Home Report valuation attained was 4.2 percentage points lower than last year, recorded at 102.6 per

An academic is looking for participants for her research on inequalities in knowledge production in criminology and learning in Scotland. Janine Ewen, an early career researcher based at the University of Aberdeen, is carrying out a qualitative ethnographic study via interviews.

A national strategy to prevent and address violence against women and girls has been renewed. Equally Safe, a joint strategy with COSLA, was first published in 2014, and is backed by the Delivering Equally Safe Fund that is providing £19 million per year to support 121 projects from 112 organi

Former sheriff Douglas J Cusine is impressed by Gillian Mawdsley's new study of sudden deaths and FAIs in Scotland. For me, there are two very significant sentences in this impressive book: “The public should be able to understand the role of an FAI…” (para. 2.01) and “It is

Should we be seeking to remove a significant number of disputes from the courts altogether, asks John Sturrock. Recently in these pages, I mentioned a talk I’d given to a Worldwide Advocacy Conference in July 1998. Then, I’d identified two related developments with implications for civil

Scotland’s best known (fictional) advocate is back in action this month in The Scotsman with this year’s month-long Christmas serial Edward Kane and the Supernal Sisters. The story focuses on the popularity of seances and other spirited events in the mid 1900s. Ross Macfarlane KC’s

Keoghs is continuing its expansion in Scotland with the appointment of two new partners in the motor and disease teams at its Glasgow offices. Laurie Traynor and Zoe Strong, previously from Ince & Co and Weightmans respectively, will join Keoghs Scotland.

ESPC has called for greater help for first-time buyers in Scotland in order to improve access to the market for people who’ve been hit by years of high house price inflation and now high interest rates. The property portal for home buyers and sellers in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Bo

A law professor at the University of Strathclyde has been elected as an emeritus member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), in recognition of his distinguished career as an academic. Professor Alan Paterson OBE joined Strathclyde in 1984 and served as head of the university’s law school fo

Criminal charges against another suspect in the Lockerbie bombing are to be brought in the coming days by US authorities, in a move described as "convenient" by the legal team for the Megrahi family, who are challenging the only conviction in the case. The US Justice Department is expected to unseal

The First Division of the Inner House has quashed the decision of a reporter which had allowed an appeal by the operators of a motocross track against an enforcement notice on the basis that it was served out of time. James Findlay KC and Kenneth Young of Terra Firma Chambers, instructed by Brodies

Harper Macleod has reported profit before members’ remuneration and profit shares of £11.95 million for the year to March 31, 2023 – a slight drop on the £12.8m recorded for the previous period. Turnover at the firm rose to £33.05m from £31.4m.

The Aberdeen Bar Association, which represents the interests of criminal and civil court lawyers who practise at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, has re-elected Garry Sturrock as president. Mr Sturrock is a senior associate and accredited family lawyer at Brodies LLP. With over 12 years' experience of both c

Views are being sought on proposed legislation to end conversion practices seeking to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The legislation seeks to "prevent and respond to harmful acts" while protecting existing freedoms including speech, religion and belief.