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Claire Loftus, Sir John Manzoni and Sir Ernest Ryder have been appointed as independent advisers to the Scottish Ministerial Code. Current advisers Lady Eilish Angiolini and James Hamilton have stepped down, having served for more than a decade in the role.

Blackadders LLP picked up three titles at the The Herald Law Awards 2024, with Bethany Buchanan-Webster winning the Up and Coming Award. The firm also triumphed in the Family and Child Law Team and the Employment and Pensions Team of the Year categories at a gala event in The Marriott Hotel in Glasg

A new record has been set for the number of Scottish solicitors formally admitted to the profession in a single day.

The number of cases being considered by the Scottish government in relation to the Horizon scandal has been reduced to 97, Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee has been told. Writing to the committee, Justice Secretary Angela Constance, said that 44 of the 141 cases were deemed as not within the re

Connor Beaton talks to Philippa Greer about how UNRWA is battling to preserve international humanitarian law in Gaza, where at least 42,800 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's military response to the October 7 attack. Philippa Greer had already accepted the top job in UNRWA’s field

Taste there is none, notes David J Black in part two of his look at films in Scotland. See part one here. Soppy romantic books and films of the Jackie variety are not for your scrivener, the reader may have gathered, yet one isn’t unsentimental. A dear aunt about 10 years older than onese

The First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has issued welcome guidance on the assessment of “additional charges” payable on solicitors’ fees in judicial accounts, writes Claire White. This is a percentage uplift on solicitors’ fees which is allowed where th

A team of 60 from Jones Whyte participated in the Great Scottish Run, raising vital funds for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. 

A team of runners from Thompsons Solicitors took part in the Great Scottish Run to raise funds for the Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. 

Environmental and human rights campaigners rallied outside the Court of Session yesterday to mark the Scottish government missing a crucial deadline for compliance with the with the UN Aarhus Convention’s access to justice requirements.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has been named Private Client Team of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards.

A coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations has demanded that the Scottish government fulfil its promise to introduce the Scottish Human Rights Bill. In a letter to First Minister John Swinney, the organisations express their frustration at the bill’s exclusion from the current le

A former prosecutor in Aberdeen was “stunned” to learn that a customer of his family's pub had planned to have him assassinated, a trial has heard. Darren Harty, 37, gave evidence at the trial of Martin Ready, 41, at the High Court in Glasgow.

Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region has retained 78 per cent of trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified roles in the UK in 2024, with a quarter of its new lawyers taking up roles in Scotland. Out of the 34 trainees and two apprentices who applied in the UK,