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Harper Macleod has grown its banking and finance team and appointed a new partner. New partner Liana Di Ciacca joins with more than 15 years’ experience on a wide range of complex and high-value debt finance transactions. She advises both funders and borrowers on high profile Scots law matters

Scottish animal welfare charity OneKind is drawing attention to the distress fireworks can cause animals, urging the Scottish government to deliver on legislation passed three years ago that has yet to be implemented.  In 2022, the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022 was pass

CMS will stage events across their Scottish offices throughout November designed to support in-house legal teams enhance their role as strategic business partners.  The ‘Legal as a Business Partner’ seminars, being held in Glasgow (12 Nov), Aberdeen (18 Nov) and Edinburgh (27 Nov),

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced the promotion of Julie McMahon to partner within its wills, estates and succession planning team in Glasgow. With extensive experience advising individuals, families and business owners, Ms McMahon specialises in succession planning, asset protection, inheritance tax

Robertson Murdie has merged with Moray firm Stephen & Robb LLP. Emma Carle, principal of Stephen & Robb LLP, said the merger will bring much needed new energy into the northeast legal market. 

The number of significant cyber attacks doubled in the last year despite the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) receiving the same number of calls for support – which highlights the need for greater vigilance in implementing security, write Simon Colvin and Stuart Davey. But the headline-gr

Tony Lenehan KC remains the top earner of legal aid fees, new figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board detailing gross earnings show. In 2024-25, Mr Lenehan’s fees were £490,000, an increase of £40,000, or nine per cent, on the previous year. Donald Findlay KC rose from third to s

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to move away from Microsoft software in favour of an open-source alternative in response to sanctions imposed by the US government, according to reports. In May this year, it was reported that Microsoft disconnected the email account of the ICC's chief prose

I recently found myself in the company of a remarkably sensible chap who was singing the praises of his chosen subject: artificial intelligence. Without question, this would change the world forever, he assured me, and we would all be much better off as a result. We were living in a new age. Medical

Burness Paull has become the first law firm to sign up to the Pathways Pledge, an initiative created by Pathways Forward in response to the findings of the Scottish government-commissioned Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship report aimed at dramatically raising the participation l

Jones Whyte has been named Scottish Top Employer of the Year at The Herald and s1jobs Top Employer Awards 2025.

Angela Grahame KC has been named a doctor of the university by Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Since she was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995, she has gone on prosecute major High Court cases, took silk in 2009, and become only the second women in nearly 500 years to be named vice-dea

MSPs have voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill – in what the Scottish Rewilding Alliance (SRA) said is a "big step towards a Rewilding Nation". The SRA has campaigned for the

A team of Greenpeace activists installed prison bars around three iconic statues in Parliament Square yesterday to highlight the government’s "apparent desire to cast protesters as criminals and terrorists". The activists imprisoned statues of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and the Suffragist

Paul Motion considers whether motions for dawn raid orders should always be video recorded. Of all orders the Scottish civil courts are empowered to make, arguably the most intrusive, invasive and distressing are orders under Section 1 of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1972. These orde