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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

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.

Two law students have been given awards for their outstanding performances in their conveyancing exams.  Matthew Edwards from Aberdeen and Carys Magee from Greenock have both received the Conveyancing Student Scotland award from Millar and Bryce for receiving the top marks in their respective D

Clíona Kimber SC, who lectured in law at the University of Aberdeen for eight years from 1993 to 2000, has been elected as chair of the Employment Bar Association at the Bar of Ireland. Ms Kimber is a Senior Counsel (equivalent to Queen's Counsel) in Ireland, specialising in litigating in emp

Inksters Solicitors has moved into Aberdeen with Rory Cradock joining the firm to set up an office at 9 Queens Road. Mr Cradock has many years of experience of the Aberdeen property market with, in recent years, time spent as a senior lawyer at James & George Collie as well as the Mortgage and P

Over £1,700 was raised for @FoodTrainScot at last night's @DigbyBrownLLP 30th birthday celebrations in Dundee.

The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has spoken to The Herald about his family's past in Nazi Germany. On a visit to the Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, Mr Wolffe reflected on the lives of his father and grandparents.

Pictured (L-R): Kasia Thomson, Millie Crocker, Andrew Shaw, Johnston Clark, Stephen Annis, Lesley Shand and Rachel Crighton. Blackadders welcomed its new intake of trainee solicitors earlier this week.

Proposals to help complainants, whom the UK government refers to as "victims", have been launched today. The powers of the Victims' Commissioner are to be strengthened and a consultation will be launched on a new law to underpin the Victims' Code, Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced.

Pictured Back (L-R): Angela Robertson, Lindsay Cross, Alex Dawson, Colin Graham, Hayley Blackman, Anna Hills, Jillian McLaughlan, Scott Douglas.Front (L-R): Catriona Black, Alan Bell, Chloe Anderson and Maria Gravelle. Eleven trainee solicitors have started two-year traineeships with Thorntons.

Scotland’s newest solicitors with Alison Atack, president of the Law Society of Scotland, Lorna Jack, its chief executive and Lord Eassie, who spoke at the admissions ceremony at the Signet Library yesterday.

Inksters Solicitors is expanding its presence into the east of Scotland with the appointment of Steven McDonald as a consultant solicitor based in Edinburgh. Mr McDonald's experience is at senior management level, handling all aspects of residential property work including estate agency, purcha

Plans to merge British Transport Police with Police Scotland may never come to fruition, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has said. The merger was scheduled to take place in April next year but has been delayed, with Police Scotland now unable to give a “definitive date” for the merger, Mr

A new café serving up second chances for former offenders has opened in Glasgow’s Dental Hospital. Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf today opened the new Street & Arrow project, in partnership with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, giving former offenders a route back to employment and