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TLT has appointed clean energy specialist Pamela Sealey as an associate in Scotland as part of its UK-wide real estate group and multi-disciplinary clean energy sector team. Ms Sealey joins from the energy and natural resources team at Shepherd & Wedderburn, where she completed a year's sec

Law At Work (LAW) has achieved a record 35 per cent increase in group turnover and a significant rise in profits in the last financial year. LAW’s accounts for the year to 31 May 2018 show revenues rose to £3.36m, a 35 per cent year-on-year increase, enabling the firm to post EBITDA

Kirsty McFarlane takes an in-depth look at the role of professional support lawyer. The professional support lawyer (PSL) used to be a lower-profile role than the traditional fee-earning associates or partners. But, in recent years, PSLs have developed a new identity for themselves – one

Students at Dundee University have heard from an employment lawyer who took up a unique role at a major law firm this year. Amanda Jones, an employment law partner at Dentons, spoke to the Diploma year at Dundee University about her newly created role as women's advancement director within the

A 95-year-old man has been charged by German prosecutors with over 36,000 counts of accessory to murder because of his alleged role as a death camp guard. Hans H., who lives in Berlin, is alleged to have been an SS guard at the Mauthausen death camp in Austria from summer 1944 until spring 1945.

A wedding photographer who allegedly had sex with one of the wedding guests and then urinated outside the venue has been arrested. Katherine Mehta, 26, has been charged with obstruction and public intoxication after the photography gig went drastically wrong.

A sole practitioner who failed to pay counsel for work done in relation to a number of cases has been struck off the solicitors’ roll. Jeremy Cram instructed three advocates but came up with various excuses to avoid paying them and then refused to engage with the Dean of Faculty and the Law So

Solicitors and advocates providing people with advice and representation through the legal aid scheme in Scotland will receive a three per cent increase in fees. The increase, to take effect next April, was announced as part of the Scottish government’s wider response to Martyn Evans’s i

DWF has secured an appointment to the UK government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) legal framework panel. The CCS brings together policy, advice and direct buying to provide commercial services to the public sector. DWF has been appointed to a new three-year panel that will deliver legal advice to

A woman who emerged from the settlements of one of Africa’s largest cities to help in the fight to rewrite her country’s constitution has been named the first winner of the Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award. Salome Nduta, 47, from Nairobi, Kenya, “stood out from the cro

Lawyers at Blackadders have kicked off the festive season a day early with their annual Christmas video.

Ross Caldwell comments on the demotion of floating charge holders that will follow the reinstatement of Crown preference in 2020. Amidst all the hype attending the recent Budget about the £20bn windfall which befell the Exchequer and was thereafter shovelled towards the NHS, one could be forgi

In 1987 mobile ‘phones were the preserve of stockbrokers, laptop computers an idea on Tomorrow’s World, video conferencing a Star Trek fantasy, and fax machines a modern mystery. In those primitive times, advocates depended on a Filofax, phone cards, and their clerk. And so it was on 1 J

Pictured (L-R): Eric McQueen, Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle, Inverness Provost Helen Carmichael and Jeff Hedley A topping out ceremony was held on the site of Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness yesterday.

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the Scottish government's announcement of a three per cent uplift in the legal aid rates but said simplifying the legal aid system and implementing evidence-based review system for fees remain major priorities. The Scottish government’s response to the