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A former Dundee solicitor has been ordered to pay a woman £4,000 in compensation after being struck off earlier this year. Alan Baillie, 66, was ordered to pay Lorraine Ludman in the wake of a case over a land ownership dispute in Argyll.

A second residential rehabilitation service to support women and their children through recovery from addiction and substance use has been opened in Falkirk. The Scottish government has invested £5.5 million to support the development of this Aberlour Childcare Trust facility, as well as a hou

South Korea's top court has found that the government's climate targets are too weak to protect the constitutional rights of younger people in a landmark case brought by hundreds of children and young people. Woodpecker et al v South Korea was brought on behalf of 254 plaintiffs, including 'Woodpeck

Susannah Donaldson considers how a new government will impact efforts to close the gender pay gap. In light of the shifting legal landscape and market trends, both under the new Labour government in UK and across the EU, employers will face ever more onerous pay gap reporting duties across different

The Inner House of the Court of Session has granted decree of absolvitor in a reclaiming motion by an environmental consulting firm sued by multiple persons due to its involvement in a Motherwell housing development built on contaminated land on the basis of res judicata. Pursuer Laura McCluskey was

A former solicitor has been convicted following a failed online plot to murder a procurator fiscal. Martin Ready, 41, was yesterday found guilty of attempted conspiracy to murder following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Catherine Smith KC has been appointed by the new UK government as Advocate General for Scotland.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Labour Party for repeatedly failing to respond to hundreds of subject access requests (SARs). In November 2022, the Labour Party had received 352 SARs that required a response. Of that number, 78 per cent had not receive

An appeal by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland seeking her removal from an action by a scaffolding hire company for declarator and recovery of allegedly stolen goods from a company hired to store them has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. The Chief Constable was originally called as a t

A man who sexually assaulted and raped a teenage girl after meeting her on the street has been jailed. Jakub Sojka was found guilty on 31 July following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to give permission for a farming partnership to challenge an arbitrator’s decision that an expulsion notice served on a member of a farming partnership was invalid on the ground of legal error. The petitioners, who sought to expel a member of

Holmes Mackillop's commercial property director, Amir M Ismail, has been accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in commercial leasing. Mr Ismail, who joined Holmes Mackillop in February 2015 and was promoted to director in April 2021, is based in the firm's Glasgow office.

A former prosecutor in Aberdeen was “stunned” to learn that a customer of his family's pub had planned to have him assassinated, a trial has heard. Darren Harty, 37, gave evidence at the trial of Martin Ready, 41, at the High Court in Glasgow.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) should be replaced with a new body to tackle economic crime, focusing more on prevention, according the Institute of Economic Affairs. The think tank's paper says the SFO has been plagued by a series of high-profile failures, including ethical misconduct and incom

A man who repeatedly followed or approached lone women in the street before sexually assaulting three victims has been jailed. Jonathan King was convicted at the High Court in Kilmarnock yesterday. He pleaded guilty to eight charges after his victims gave evidence.