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The Guildry of Dundee has elected Scott Williamson, chairman of Blackadders, as the new Lord Dean of Guild. Mr Williamson is well known in the city and is also involved with a number of other local organisations including the Dundee and Angus Battalion of the Boys Brigade, TS Duncan, the local

A family has been awarded £100,000 damages following a fatal road traffic accident involving a supermarket delivery van and an fuel tanker near their home which resulted in the lorry crashing into their garden and spilling thousands of gallons of aviation fuel. Morag McKenzie, her daughter, an

Armed robbers who stole more than £500,000 of luxury watches from a hotel have been jailed. Richard Fleming, Liam Richardson and a third man were armed with a handgun, a machete and a hammer when they raided the Mappin & Webb store at the Gleneagles Hotel in June last year.

The number of Scottish firms failing in the third quarter of 2018 was down by 5.3 per cent during the third quarter of 2018 according to analysis of the latest figures by accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP. The latest Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) figures show that 232 Scottish fir

A coven of witches have cast a hex on US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh aimed at "exposing [the judge] for what he truly is". The bizarre ritual, which has made international headlines, was organised by Catland Books, an occult bookstore in New York.

Landlords will be forced to acquire full planning permission to lease homes by the night on websites including Airbnb and land for house-building will be made more affordable after changes to the Scottish Government’s Planning Bill were agreed by MSPs yesterday. Holyrood’s Local Governme

SYLA is delighted to introduce the latest events open to all its members. It is a busy time of year so check out our full list of events here and make sure you read below for more. Autumn Young Professionals Social with YES, SYLA and RTPI – Thursday, 25 October 2018

A specialist law firm is extending its car sticker campaign – ‘I ride too!’ – after having already sent out over 3,000 stickers to motorcyclists and cyclists to display in the rear window of their four-wheeled vehicles. The campaign by Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland

Professor Dr Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, the president of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), spoke on Tuesday night at an ICCA Edinburgh reception hosted by the Scottish Arbitration Centre. The next ICCA Congress, the largest international arbitration conference in the world

Lord Hodge has underlined the importance of corroboration as a safeguard mitigating the simple majority required to secure a conviction in the Scots jury system. In a speech delivered to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, the Supreme Court justice contrasted the jury system of Scotland with

Limited tickets are still available for Jackson Boyd's charity ceilidh next Friday night, 2 November 2018, at Sloans in Glasgow. The ceilidh will raise money for the firm's nominated charities: SAMH, Cystic Fibrosis Trust and Brightest Star.

European Lawyers Day at the Faculty of Advocates featured a highly informative and thought-provoking talk by Philippe Sands QC, law professor, author and international counsel. Mr Sands spoke on “Contemporary challenges to global justice” and explored topics such as Brexit and the US in

Thousands of sheep have been shepherded through the streets of the Spanish capital in defence of farmers' rights to use an ancient shepherding route. Under an agreement struck in 1418, farmers were allowed to move their livestock along a then-countryside route in exchange for a small fee.