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The next Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill QC, has promised to “restore public trust in the Crown Prosecution Service” following a series of high-profile disclosure failings leading to collapsed trials. Mr Hill's appointment to the post was announced yesterday by the Attorney Gen

If the bar continues to fail to attract women it will "wither from the roots up", Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC has said. In an interview with the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG), Ms Grahame said that while 65 per cent of law students are female across Scotland's

Anderson Strathern has hired communications industry stalwart Beth Cameron to a newly created communications and public relations manager role. Ms Cameron brings over 20 years of public relations and communications experience to the firm, having started her career in advertising and brand management

Pictured (L-R): Claire Thornber, Nicola Gonnella and Claire McCracken. Weightmans has appointed three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.

Plans to tighten the legal framework around Scottish limited partnerships have been supported in the main by the Faculty of Advocates. The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has proposed reform in the wake of evidence that limited partnerships, particularly

Top road traffic lawyer Graham Walker has been injured in a cycling accident in France, The Herald reports. Mr Walker, 60, of roadtrafficlaw.com, was in intensive care after he fell from his bike in a "freak accident" in which he hit a root on a woodland cylce path and landed on his head, a family f

A man who took his pet sheep, 'Chops', into a Lidl in an attempt to persuade people not to buy lamb refused to leave, choosing instead to punch a store detective and strike him with a metal pole, a court heard. Andrew Meneice, 33, appeared at the store in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, last July.

President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has delivered a lecture on the use of empirical research in the justice system. The lecture, entitled "Challenges in the justice system and the contribution of empirical research", was the inaugural Nuffield Foundation Annual Lecture and was delivered on 14

A woman who was sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of four has won a case against the "same roof" rule which denied her the right to compensation. The rule denied payouts to victims who lived in the same home as their attackers before 1979.

Nestlé's attempts to trademark its four-finger Kit Kat shape have been dismissed by judges in the European Court of Justice, in the latest judgment of a decade-long saga. In a ruling today, the court said the company had failed to show its shape was sufficiently distinctive in all the countri

CLT Scotland’s advanced offer for the next event in the Scots Law 2018 Exhibition/Conference Series ends on Tuesday. The event will take place at BT Murrayfield on 29 & 30 October and all bookings received on or before Tuesday 31 July will attract an advanced offer price sta

A family from Paisley has secured damages of £247,000 after losing their mother to the asbestos disease mesothelioma. This is the first time in Scotland in which a case has been successfully pursued on behalf of someone who suffered from secondary exposure to asbestos from their spouse’s

Pictured (L-R): Back - Steven Drake, Colin Graham, Thomas Redpath, Stuart Mackie, Anneli Spence. Front - Lynsay McFarlane, Megan Sweeney, Chris Gardiner, Joanne Clancy, Lynne Macintyre Thorntons has made 10 promotions – two senior solicitors have been promoted to associates and nine solicitors

The judgment in the English case of Owens v Owens was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs Owens sought a divorce from her husband on the basis of his behaviour. She said that his behaviour was such that she could not reasonably be expected to cohabit with him. Unusually, Mr Owens sought