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Holmes Mackillop has made a trio of appointments to its Ayr office. Zainab Ifzal qualified as a solicitor last week, Robyn Davidson joins as a trainee solicitor, and Amy Paterson has been appointed as an admin assistant.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has absolved a company director of liability for a payment claimed to be due to the seller of commercial subjects bought by his company under a sale and buy-back agreement after finding that a secondary clause of the contract under which the seller could claim surplus funds

Coulters Property has announced a partnership with Watsonian Football Club, becoming the club’s exclusive property sponsor for 2025.

Blackadders LLP has recruited eight new trainees to the firm’s training programme.

Burges Salmon has welcomed its first cohort of newly qualified solicitors in Edinburgh. Eva Hunter and Marcus Jones were admitted to the roll of solicitors earlier this month, becoming the first trainees to qualify in Scotland through Burges Salmon’s programme. They join the firm’s banki

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has expressed her "conviction" that tackling domestic abuse will make Scotland a safer place for women and girls after new figures shows a 0.4 per cent increase in the number of charges reported to the Crown Office. In 2024-25, 30,227 charges related to domestic abuse w

The Council of Europe has released a new guide aimed at limiting the use of criminal law to restrict freedom of expression, warning against the growing trend of its disproportionate application.  The guide offers a detailed overview of the European Court of Human Rights’ case law, underli

A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) has found “systemic failure” in the way a council handled the case of a 13-year-old girl who later died after her mother failed to seek medical treatment. Robyn Goldie died on 26 July 2018 from peritonitis caused by a perforated duodenal ulcer. Her mother,

A man has been jailed indefinitely after sexually abusing two adolescent boys and a vulnerable man. James Grieve Donaldson, also known by the surname Murray, was found guilty of four charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has raised "serious concerns" about the use of orders for lifelong restriction (OLRs) in Scotland. OLRs are indeterminate prison sentences imposed on people to protect the public from the risk of serious harm. They have no fixed release date and include lifelong

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened war crimes proceedings against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony in its first-ever confirmation of charges hearing held without the accused present. The move represents a historic step for the court and a potential test case for future prosecutions of

Scotland’s prison population has risen above the level that triggered the early release of hundreds of inmates earlier this year, with warnings that numbers could soon reach record highs. In February and March more than 300 prisoners, half of them serving sentences for violent offences, were r

Baroness Harman KC has warned that LinkedIn is being used as a “dating app” by predatory barristers. The former Labour deputy leader and ex-chair of the party conducted an independent review into bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the English bar, commissioned by the Bar Counc

Police in the Czech Republic have arrested the man suspected of repeatedly driving a Formula 1-style racing car along a motorway since 2019. The distinctive red vehicle, in full Ferrari livery, was traced to a property in the village of Buk, around 60km south-west of Prague, following the latest rep