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Scott Whyte

25 May 8.30-10.30

Michael Matheson

Straight in at No 1 are Siouxsie and the Banshees – no, it’s not a throwback to the era of punk, but a quizzing success for a Faculty of Advocates-dominated team!Skipper Susanne Tanner QC, hand-picked her former Crown Office colleagues, Douglas Fairley QC, and Summary Sheriff Peter McCormack, a

A woman facing an action for payment of more than £170,000 following a “gratuitous alienation” who claimed that the statutory defences available to a challenge to such a transfer breached her human rights has had her defence dismissed. The case raised the issue of whether the terms of section 3

Kirstie Maclennan Brodies LLP is the top ranked independent Scottish law firm in a league table of the UK’s 300 top graduate employers published by The Guardian.

Pictured (L-R): Eilidh Wiseman and Leanne Hammell

David Buchanan-Cook

Stephen Gold As someone brought up with very little money, whose life has been enhanced beyond measure by education, news of further decline in the literacy and numeracy of Scotland’s children feels very personal to me. But at least social attitudes have much improved since I was a child.

Photo credit: Victoria Young

Paula Skinner Harper Macleod has advised a Glasgow-based fintech business on a six-figure investment, the first to be completed with the help of a new Glasgow City Council scheme designed to help SMEs scale up.

John Scott MSP Holyrood's law reform committee has recommended MSPs back a bill providing a new statutory framework for third party rights.

National law firm Shoosmiths has announced six new partners in the firm's May promotions. They are joined by 18 new senior associates across the UK, including two in Edinburgh.

One of the UK’s top academic experts on EU law has confirmed she will be speaking in Edinburgh on what Brexit will mean for EU nationals in Scotland. Professor Eleanor Spaventa, from Durham University European Law Institute (pictured right) will be taking part in a major conference on ‘Brexit an