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The Faculty of Advocates’ human rights award winner, Salome Nduta, has set herself a daunting challenge of celebrating this year’s International Human Rights Day at the top of a 17,060ft mountain. Ms Nduta, a protection officer with Defenders Coalition-Kenya, and colleagues have vowed to

Via Aberdeen Law School: Congratulations to Nina Robertson, a third year LLB student, who won the Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP Commercial Law Prize.

A member of the public has agreed a repayment plan with a local authority which accidentally paid him nearly £300,000. Fife Council was supposed to pay the man £59.95 a week, but accidentally paid £59,395 per week instead – and didn't notice until around £297,000 was pa

A man found guilty of behaving in a “threatening” manner towards two teenage girls has had an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to place him on the sex offenders register dismissed. The appellant claimed that he had not been given sufficient notice that there was a “signifi

Lord Keen of Elie QC, the Advocate General for Scotland, has been accused of professional misconduct and will be the subject of disciplinary proceedings later this month. On 29 October, Lord Keen, who represented the government in the recent Scottish Brexit litigation, will appear before the Bar Tri

Lindsays has today announced a merger with Edinburgh-based legal practice Hadden Rankin.  The merger takes effect on 28th October 2019 and will see all Hadden Rankin staff transfer to Lindsays, with no redundancies. Hadden Rankin’s founding partners – Ross Hadden and Dot Rankin &nda

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The Scottish government has published guidance for legal professionals to help them cope with a possible no-deal Brexit. Two guides cover the changes to cross border civil justice cooperation in family cases and in civil and commercial cases.

The first steps to a career at the bar have been taken by no fewer than 26 aspiring advocates, the largest number of devils for at least 10 years. The group has made camp in the Mackenzie Building, home of the Faculty of Advocates’ training suite, at the start of the nine-month devilling perio

Increased demand for guidance on boardroom governance has seen financial services adviser Malcolm Wood drafted in to a consultancy role with Burness Paull LLP. Mr Wood recently stepped down as group company secretary of Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to that he successfully led the in-house legal and s

Blackadders has moved into a new, larger office in the Edinburgh's west end.

Axiom Advocates has been ranked as a band 1 set in 12 different practice areas with members receiving an outstanding 119 rankings in the latest Chambers UK rankings. Axiom has won high praise in the first instance for its core practice areas as “a stable distinguished by its extensive ranks of

Scotland has become the first country in the UK to ban plastic-stemmed cotton buds. Further action on plastics is already planned with Scotland’s deposit return scheme expected to capture 90 per cent of aluminium and steel cans, glass and plastic bottles once operational.

MacRoberts has helped win an £18 million investment for emerging Scottish energy company Together Energy. The deal, which has been secured from Warrington Borough Council, will see the council take a 50 per cent shareholding in the business. The council was attracted to the Glasgow-based compa

A tool that aims to make the UK’s human rights records transparent and the government accountable has been launched. HumanRightsTracker.com allows civil society organisations, academics, parliamentarians and legal professionals to learn about the UK’s human rights duties under UN treatie