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Addleshaw Goddard has recruited Fiona Cameron as a new partner in its finance team in Glasgow, where the firm it is set to double its office size in January 2026. Ms Cameron, who joins the firm from Shoosmiths, has a focus on real estate finance among a broad finance practice, which includes corpora

Miscarriages of Justice will be highlighted at a Franco-British Lawyers Society conference to be held in Edinburgh on 18-20 September. The event will start with the opening of an exhibition of sculptures by the fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi, include a Gala Dinner in Parliament Hall, and

MBM Commercial has appointed Jamie Nellany as the firm’s head of restructuring and insolvency. In this new role for the firm Mr Nellany will deliver advice on a full range of restructuring and insolvency matters to the firm’s corporate and commercial clients. He will be based in the firm

A prisoner serving an extended sentence who claimed that his human rights were breached due to the Scottish ministers not affording him rehabilitative opportunities as to allow him to be released on licence has lost a judicial review challenge Petitioner AB, who was convicted of offences under the S

SLN’s Alastair Tibbs visits Govan Law Centre and its inspirational staff.

A new report has called on Police Scotland to improve the quality of its uniforms after a review revealed many officers are buying their own trousers, fleeces, boots and jackets rather than wear the poor quality and ill-fitting kit provided. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland found that whi

Scotland remains the drug death capital of Europe despite the fact the number of deaths caused by drug misuse fell by 13 per cent to 1,017 last year – the lowest level registered since 2017. According to statistics published by National Records of Scotland today, there were 155 fewer deaths in

A recently reported judgment of the Outer House of the Court of Session has underscored the importance of compliance with the duty of full and frank disclosure (often referred to as the duty of candour) in ex parte hearings, write Ross Webb and Charlie MacKay. In May 2025, PE Limited and others (the

A Wisconsin man who faked his death and fled abroad has been sentenced to 89 days in jail – the same number of days he was missing. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, pleaded no contest to obstructing an officer. Both prosecution and defence recommended 45 days in jail, but the judge matched the sentence to

Since October 2023, about 200 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and Lebanon. The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has determined that 21 of those deaths involved people targeted specifically because of their work as journalists, describing the killings as “m

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of Lee McKinsley and Barry Watson.  Both men died while in legal custody at HMP Barlinnie during December 2020. 

A life-size hologram of a police officer in a central Seoul park has been linked to a 22 per cent drop in crime since its installation last October. The 3D projection, on display nightly between 7pm and 10pm in Jeo-dong Park, appears every two minutes to warn: “In case of an emergency, the pol

Police have launched legal proceedings against the Sheku Bayoh inquiry in a dispute over the impartiality of its chair, Lord Bracadale. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF), which represents rank-and-file officers, has sought a judicial review of Lord Bracadale’s role, claiming private meeting

The Femicide Census has identified 122 women who were killed by men in the UK in 2022. Sixty-two women were killed by a current or former partner. More women were killed by their son than by a stranger. The vast majority of women were killed in their own home. Evidence of gratuitous violence was fou