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Lord Glennie (right) delivering the keynote lecture

A police inspector who was jailed for fraud has been told he will have to repay more than £100 thousand. David Brown admitted using the names of family members, businesses and strangers to create false insurance policies and then claiming £92,000 commission.

Thirty new legal members and 19 ordinary members have been appointed by the Scottish ministers to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and assigned to the Housing and Property Chamber by the President of Scottish Tribunals, Lady Smith. The announcement follows a recruitment round by the Judicial App

Watermans' Scott Whyte (centre, right) welcomes the new mascot to SCAA along with SCAA vice chairman Mike Beale (second from left) and crew (from left) paramedic Craig McDonald, paramedic Rich Garside and senior pilot Captain Russell Myles.

Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to announce that James Findlay, Stephen O’Rourke and David Parratt have been appointed Queen’s Counsel. Fourteen new appointments have been made by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. This brings the number of silks

David Flint David Flint looks at a case illustrating the fine line between necessary and unnecessary restrictions in the competition rules.

A law firm which claimed that a former client had waived his right to bring a damages action against them after the expiry of the three-year time bar had its appeal refused. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision of the Lord Ordinary, who rejected the firm’s argument that the te

Ewan Alexander Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2016-17 which shows global turnover increased by 11 per cent to £423.1m.

A motorist who claimed more than £180,000 in damages following a relatively minor collision in which a car reversed into his vehicle while parked at a petrol station has been awarded just a fraction of that amount. Grant Grubb raised a personal injury action seeking £182,880 after John Finlay admi

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Keoghs has doubled the partner count at its new Glasgow office by appointing Emily Jeffrey and David Hennessy, who join from Brodies.It follows the arrival of Stefanie Johnston and Douglas Cowan, who spearheaded the UK firm’s expansion into Scotland in April.

Whatever type of ‘Brexit’ is eventually agreed between the UK and the EU, legislation made by the EU and the case law of the European Court of Justice is likely to be important for Scottish courts for many years in the future. The way that EU law influences UK courts is likely to change however.

David Smith Legal firms with five or more partners have had a third year of growth across the sector and experienced significant income growth rates of between eight per cent and 20 per cent, fuelled by mergers and the volume of corporate transactions, according to Scottish accountants Henderson Log

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Paula Skinner Harper Macleod has advised a Glasgow-based fintech business on a six-figure investment, the first to be completed with the help of a new Glasgow City Council scheme designed to help SMEs scale up.