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Financial results for Gillespie Macandrew confirm the business delivered another strong year overall despite the disruption caused by the pandemic. Revenue for the year ending 28 February 2021 was £13.5m (2020 - £14.4m), having been adversely affected in the initial few months of lockdow

Aberdein Considine has made a number of senior appointments to its lender services practice group (LSPG) including the hire of a banking and compliance specialist. George McNaughton has joined the firm as the head of compliance for the firm's LSPG following a 30 year career in banking and finance.

The nights are drawing in and there’s a definite nip in the air. Winter is on its way, which means so is the season for giving. And while many of us are already looking forward to the festive season, cuts in financial support and rising fuel and food costs mean vulnerable families will struggl

The Scottish courts were used to conduct politics in a 2018 case over the triggering of article 50, the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC MP, has claimed. In a speech to the 2021 Public Law Project Conference in which she denounced 'political litigation', Ms Braverman said that the flexibility o

Specialist debt recovery firm Yuill+Kyle, part of the MacRoberts Group, has appointed Denise Loney as its new managing director. She succeeds industry expert Stephen Cowan, who will remain as a consultant to help with the transition.

An effective response to attacks on judicial independence should come from the bar, a senior American judge told an audience in Edinburgh last night. Nathan L. Hecht, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, delivered the Scottish Council of Law Reporting's 11th annual MacFadyen lecture on the t

Simpson & Marwick’s David Coutts has become dual accredited in both family and child law by the Law Society of Scotland. The accolade is a recognition of a solicitor’s proven specialist knowledge and is designed to help the public identify experts in each area of law, particularly in

Burness Paull has become the first law firm to use Pawprint, rolling out Pawprint for Business firmwide as part of it commitment to improving its sustainability and carbon footprint. Pawprint for Business helps businesses to support their employees in tackling climate change. Employees are able to m

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

Legal academics, including many from Scottish universities, have written to the University of Sussex in support of Professor Kathleen Stock, "for her academic work and public interventions on the questions surrounding the legal recognition of sex and gender identity." Professor Stock, a philosophy a

With the business use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the rise, there are key legal and contractual risks that businesses using, or supplying, AI need to consider, writes Phillip Kelly. As with most contracts for the sale of products, any contract for the supply or provision of AI is likely to co

The way evidence is handled and used by the criminal justice system is changing. The Scottish government has contracted with Axon Public Safety UK Ltd, to deliver the new Digital Evidence Sharing Capability service (DESC).

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has unveiled a planned overhaul of the Human Rights Act. Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Raab said the European Court of Human Rights was imposing too many "obligations on the state" as opposed to defending individuals from "undue interference".

UK law firms' fees and profits are exceeding expectations this year, a report from PwC shows. Its 30th Law Firms’ Survey showed that just under three-quarters of firms reported an increase in fee income with 76 per cent seeing profit increases. The findings are consonant with the figures from

On 15 October 2021, Sheriff Martin Edington sat for the last time at Livingston Sheriff Court as its senior sheriff. After more than 20 years on the shrieval bench, Sheriff Edington will officially retire on 27 October. From 1999 until 2003, Sheriff Edington presided as a temporary sheriff, then an