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Two solicitors from the Inverness office of Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) have announced their retirements after over 88 combined years in the legal profession. George MacWilliam and Ian A MacDonald, both Inverness locals, have been with WJM since the firm merged with MacArthur & Co

The infamous ‘backstop’ is gone, but the new Irish Protocol could lead to the indefinite jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union within the United Kingdom, writes Oliver Garner of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. The new Protocol on Ireland/N

The issue of whether foster carers are to be regarded as local authority employees and therefore be accorded rights associated with such a position is emotive, but is also extremely important to see resolved, writes Alasdair Docwra. Foster carers are volunteers, who play an absolutely vital rol

An open invitation is being extended to the second Lord Jones Excellence in Advocacy event in Edinburgh.

Johan Findlay JP OBE looks at the history of women on the JP bench. It is 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, the Scottish mountaineer best known for listing and climbing mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, known now as Munros.

The founder of the Faculty of Advocates’ MiniTrials initiative and its linchpin for the past 17 years has passed on the baton - quite literally. Lord Kinclaven, then Sandy Wylie QC, was moved by a suggestion that more should be done to promote legal education in schools, and came up with the i

A large-scale report into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales, carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol, has been published. The research, commissioned and published by the Home Office examines the variety of different sex work services and the reasons peopl

Police are searching for a man who allegedly attempted to open a bank account with a '$1 million' bill. Staff at a Pinnacle Bank branch in Lincoln, Nebraska, said he presented the bill to a teller and claimed it was real despite employees telling him no such bill exists, the Lincoln Journal-Star rep

Johan Findlay JP OBE looks at the history of women on the JP bench. It is 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, the Scottish mountaineer best known for listing and climbing mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, known now as Munros.

A man who was ordered not to contact his former partner after being convicted of a statutory breach of the peace following a drunken rant at police officers has had an appeal against the bail condition imposed dismissed. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the speci

It took "far too long" for a notice of a fatal accident inquiry to be lodged in relation to the Clutha helicopter disaster, a sheriff has said. Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has made his determination into the incident which saw 10 people die when a helicopter, then carrying out duties on behalf

The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has been cleared of professional misconduct by a tribunal following a conviction for a firearms offence. Richard Keen appeared at a Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (BTAS) hearing over allegations he had brought the profession into disre

Facebook has reached an agreement with the Information Commissioner's Office to pay a £500,000 fine in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal with no admission of liability. The fine was issued to the social media giant just over a year ago after the watchdog identified suspected fail

Josef Strand has been appointed an associate at Dentons in Glasgow. Mr Strand, who joins the firm's real estate department, obtained an LLB from Edinburgh University and trained with Sneddons in West Lothian.

The decision to jail the Catalan leaders has caused widespread outrage. Is the outrage justified? When regional nationalist leaders openly defy the law, what is the proper response of central government? These are questions with which the Spanish Supreme Court has had to grapple. They may yet come t