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Westcor International Limited has announced the appointment of Kirsty Noble as senior underwriter and solicitor for Scotland and opens its first Scottish office. Ms Noble joined Westcor from Blackadders LLP earlier this year and brings over a decade of experience as a practising solicitor.

Raeburn Christie Clark and Wallace (RCCW) has reported a 40 per cent rise in demand for rural homes. The firm said it had sold around £170 million-worth of properties in the year to July 31, £110m of which involved rural homes.

Macdonald Henderson has been double shortlisted in two leading Scottish corporate awards along with major corporate law firms in the sector.

Family Law Matters Scotland LLP has welcomed Marisa Cullen as a partner in the firm. She joins the firm from Morton Fraser, where she has developed a reputation as one of the leading international child law practitioners in Scotland. Ms Cullen is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specia

Financial penalties would be imposed on parents who bring vexatious claims to the family courts under plans being drawn up by the government. Justice Secretary Dominic Raab wants mediation to be the default process in divorce cases to stop couples from burdening the courts, The Times reports.

Sometimes when people get what they want they realise how limited their goals were.

A woman who claimed to have forgotten about her divorce has narrowly avoided jail after trying to claim her late ex-husband's estate. Bernadette O'Loughlin, 56, pleaded guilty at Letterkenny Circuit Court to using a form to get letters of administration to Keith O'Loughlin's estate, despite divorcin

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled that an action seeking over £72 million in damages relating to defects in the construction of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow is competent in spite of a contractual provision requiring disputes to be referred to adjudication.

Proposals on remote hearings advanced by Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) would adversely affect access to justice and the quality of justice, the Faculty of Advocates has said. The Faculty submitted its response to the SCJC Consultation on Mode of Attendance at Court Hearings today. The consul

Davidson Chalmers Stewart has announced the appointment of three new partners at its offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Nicola Scott, a commercial property and renewable projects specialist, joins from Brodies. She previously served as in-house counsel at SSE advising on property law aspects of their

In March 2020, I wrote about the rising tide of climate change litigation and how the courts were being used by activists as an alternative to traditional protest activities. The trends we were beginning to see have continued unabated over the last 18 months. As of October 2021, almost 1,900 climate

Shepherd and Wedderburn has established a dedicated environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory group to assist clients with their sustainability, workforce and regulatory commitments. The ESG advisory group, comprising lawyers with relevant, specialist expertise drawn from across the firm,

Aamer Anwar has been found not guilty of professional misconduct by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT). Following a four-year investigation, the tribunal cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Jonathan Rennie, partner in TLT’s UK-wide employment team and regular host of TLT’s Employment Law Focus podcast, has successfully competed for a role on The Football Association’s (FA) judicial panel. The panel is a pool of legal and non-legal individuals from which regulatory com

An academic project on women in the law is looking for help from readers of Scottish Legal News. A team from the University of Glasgow School of Law is currently engaged in the research project Women in Law which aims to examine the history of women in the Scottish legal profession.