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The week, in addition to being the second week of COP26, is also International Mediation Awareness Week, and events across the world are taking place in an effort to raise awareness of the power of mediation to resolve conflict. That power is something not lost on those working on the fringes of the

Lord Hope of Craighead has recalled how, when sitting in a murder case, he realised police had arrested the wrong individual, "who was then accused and convicted". The crossbench peer was speaking in the Lords in support of amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which contains

David Flint, Balfour and Manson litigation partner, retired at the end of last month. Here he looks back at his 40-year career in legal practice. I think I was the last of the apprentice generation starting with Guild and Guild WS in Rutland Square Edinburgh in 1979. Even before I was qualified, I w

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court went into lockdown last week after a lawyer received a positive Covid test. Defence lawyer Graeme Cunningham, 57, was representing a number of clients at the court on Thursday, the Daily Record reports.

One of Scotland’s longest-serving civil solicitor advocates, Tom Marshall, retired from practice yesterday. A graduate of Dundee University, he trained with Bishop & Company in Glasgow before becoming a partner in the firm, by then called Bishop and Robertson Chalmers, in Edinburgh in 1988

A 96-year-old woman who was a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has gone on trial for complicity in the murder of more than 11,000 people, weeks after she attempted to flee proceedings. Irmgard Furchner was 18 when she began working at Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland as secretary to its c

Attempts to make online courts the default forum for civil justice do not "make any sense" and are "very much second best" to conducting legal business in person, experts have told Scottish Legal News. Draft rules prepared by the Scottish Civil Justice Council – which are currently out for con

Although Rosalie Chadwick had aspirations of being a fighter pilot, not a lawyer, she eventually decided to take the latter option partly because of what she describes as her stubborn streak. That desire to stand up to opposition, rather than shy away from heated discussion, is likely to serve her w

Thorntons has welcomed 10 newly qualified solicitors across five of its offices this September, following a two year traineeship. Among the recruits are six appointments in Edinburgh: Thea Pock in family; Cameron Mathieson in wills, trusts and succession; Charlotte Parker Smith in corporate; Kerri M

The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, is to meet bereaved families following delays in loved ones finding out causes of deaths. The 12-week turnaround times for the Crown Office to tell next of kin the causes of death has not been met in recent years.

Ian Robinson tells budding immigration lawyers what he wishes he had known at the outset of his career. As a firm we work in every area of immigration, other than asylum. That means helping skilled people, entrepreneurs, families and others move to or stay in the UK, including pro bono support for v

Dear Editor, In an effort to contribute to the debate on the 'not proven' verdict may I make a simple point which I have not yet seen reflected in any discussion on the matter.

Lady Hale has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, is a former judge who served as the first female president of the Supreme Court. In 2019 she announced the court’s judgement that the prorogation of Parliament was "unlawful, void and of no eff

Pictured: Michael Watson (left) and Euan McVicar Pinsent Masons has bolstered its climate change team with the appointment of two lawyers to senior positions.

Professor Martin Hogg has been named head of NUI Galway School of Law with effect from November. Professor Hogg will join NUI Galway from the University of Edinburgh, where he has served as head of school and dean of law since 2017.