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Eleven lawyers at Aberdein Considine LLP working from Aberdeen to Newcastle have been recognised in its latest round of promotions this autumn, including three lawyers who started their traineeships with the firm. In Aberdeen, three experienced residential conveyancing lawyers become associates - Br

Scotland’s human rights watchdog has found that public authorities are denying people in the South of Scotland their rights to food, housing and health. Today, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has published a spotlight report on economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) acro

The government has confirmed it will extend “day one” employee bereavement and pregnancy loss rights from next April. The changes will give more people a legal right to take time off work after suffering a bereavement or pregnancy loss in another shake-up to employment rights, writes Dr

Paisley-based MJC LAW welcomed members of the legal profession, aspiring young lawyers and local supporters for an evening exploring the town’s legal history and raising funds for the Access to Justice Foundation.

Twenty years ago, the Scottish Parliament passed the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006. At the time, it was a major step forward in animal protection law, writes The Animal Law Foundation. The Act prohibits causing animals unnecessary suffering. It also places a positive duty on those re

Bloomsbury Professional has once again supported Lawscot Foundation students by providing free textbooks for the fifth consecutive year. Through their partnership, Bloomsbury Professional supplies each student accepted onto the Lawscot Foundation programme with over 30 textbooks to support their stu

Tesco has failed in a judicial review challenge to a decision by Dumfries and Galloway Council allowing Sainsbury’s to operate a supermarket at an existing retail park outside Dumfries town centre. Lord Sandison held that the council had properly considered the relevant national and local plan

Burness Paull has hired hotels and student accommodation specialist Roland Smyth as a partner to boost sector growth from within its real estate team. Qualified in both Scots and English law, Mr Smyth brings considerable experience of commercial real estate and has developed an outstanding reputatio

A high school teacher was fired after offering students extra credit in return for cash donations to her personal GoFundMe account. Stephanie Mullaley, who taught in the Clinton Community School District in the US state of Iowa, told students that she was raising money for what she described as &ldq

A remembrance service for the late Sheriff Alastair Carmichael is being held at 11am this Saturday, 10 October 2026, at Dunkeld Cathedral, with tea and coffee afterwards at Dunkeld House Hotel, Dunkeld. Sheriff Carmichael, who sat at Dundee Sheriff Court, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in

Lord Hamblen of Kersey has today announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) on 30 September 2027. Lord Hamblen, who was educated at St John's College, University of Oxford and Harvard Law School, became a justice of the Supreme Court i

Steph McTighe, an Edinburgh-based senior associate and disputes resolution specialist at CMS, has been appointed as Scotland’s Ambassador to the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC). A respected global institution with in-depth knowledge and links across Europe, VIAC assists businesses

Diversity continues to grow across the Scottish solicitor profession, research by the Law Society of Scotland shows, with key areas of progress identified alongside opportunities for further action. The latest diversity data, collected by the Law Society as part of solicitors’ annual practisin