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Johnston Carmichael has strengthened its governance, risk and compliance function with a senior promotion and new hire. Keith Hamilton, who joined the firm in January 2023 as legal counsel, has been promoted to general counsel. He heads up a team of three, including the firm’s recently appoint

Jacqueline Moore has been promoted to partner at Thorntons. Ms Moore joined the Thorntons employment and immigration team in February 2023 and has quickly made her mark on the firm, driving growth of the specialist team, and positively impacting individual and business clients.

An appeal against sentence by a repeat offender who was jailed for life with a punishment part of 23 years for murdering his partner while on bail for a different offence has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Christoper McGowan, aged 28 at the time of sentencing, had 57 previous convicti

A Crown appeal against what it considered to be the unduly lenient sentencing of a sexual offender has resulted in the High Court of Justiciary concluding that it would have reached the same overall result as the trial judge. Respondent Alistair Fergusson was convicted of 16 sexual offences against

New figures have revealed a decline in the number of people killed on Scotland’s roads last year as compared with 2022 – but there has been a rise in the number of fatalities within groups of vulnerable road users. Motorcycling fatalities rose from 25 to 27 and serious injuries from

Digby Brown Solicitors has appointed three new partners. Fern Mapp takes her position with the foreign & travel team in Edinburgh – she is renowned for helping people in complex and high-profile matters like international offshore incidents and the Clutha helicopter disaster.

A man who hired illegal migrants to work in a chicken takeaway restaurant in Edinburgh has been disqualified from acting as a company director for six years after an application was made by the Business Secretary to the Outer House of the Court of Session. The respondent, Muhammad Azam, was the sole

A man who tried to murder a young boy and another man by setting a fire outside their door in a high-rise block of flats has been jailed. Craig McQuillian was caught on camera entering the Fidra Court building in Edinburgh at around 11.30pm on November 12, 2023.

The average price of a property in Scotland in March 2024 was £192,000, an increase of 6.7 per cent when compared to the same period last year, the UK House Price Index (HPI) has revealed. Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 2.3 per cent on a non-seasonally ad

A judge has determined that a petition for judicial review of plans to redesign an Inverness shopping street to reduce the amount of vehicle traffic passing through it was not raised incompetently or prematurely. The trustees of the Eastgate Unit Trust, which owned a shopping centre at the east end

The number of commercial property rent disputes between landlords and occupiers rose for the first time since 2016 as more cases had to be referred a third-party for resolution, according to new analysis from Knight Frank. The commercial property consultancy obtained figures from the Royal Instituti

Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee will launch their city centre Low Emission Zones (LEZ) shortly, joining Glasgow whose zone has already been operating for a year. Dundee will commence enforcement on 30 May followed by Aberdeen and Edinburgh on 1 June, Glasgow will commence enforcement for residents wi

Davidson Chalmers Stewart has announced the promotion of Jane Dickers to partner. She will be based in the firm’s Glasgow office. Ms Dickers joined Davidson Chalmers Stewart as a director in early 2023, after 12 years as a partner and court practitioner in high street firms in Aberdeen and Abe

David Morgan and Tom Richard reflect on the value of the water of life – whisky. With it being World Whisky Day, it’s worth reflecting on the importance of Scotch whisky, our national drink, to the Scottish economy. From large-scale global drinks producers to independent bottlers and Sco

Emergency release of short-term prisoners is being proposed to address the impacts of an unprecedented rise in the prison population, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has confirmed. The prison population has increased sharply by around 400 in the past two months, and 13 per cent since the beginnin