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Morton Fraser has been named as a provider of legal services in Scotland for Curtis Banks, the UK’s largest provider of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP). The latest appointment for Morton Fraser’s property in pensions team, the largest of its kind in Scotland, commenced in June 201

The Scottish Civil Justice Council has published its fifth annual report, which outlines its achievements, accounts and a summary of the rules prepared during the last year. Writing his foreword as council chair, the Lord President, Lord Carloway, charted the council’s continued work on civil

Turcan Connell is more than doubling the size of its Glasgow office due to rising client demand in the city.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is calling on practitioners to respond to a survey on the issue of retaining lawyers in Scotland. With more and more lawyers moving to different jurisdictions or leaving the profession altogether the association has created a survey to identif

Divorcees looking for additonal payments from their former spouses were dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled a woman who spent all her settlement money cannot claim more from her ex-husband. Graham Mills, 52, challenged a Court of Appeal order mandating that he pay an extra £4,090 a year

Annabel Twose of First 100 Years writes about Jessie Chrystal Macmillan, a Scottish feminist, barrister and politician. She was the first female science graduate from the University of Edinburgh; the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords and a founder of the Women’s Intern

A tourist was charged and fined after she brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport. The 24-year-old found the munition while out walking in the Dachstein mountains, police in Lower Austria said.

The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators, since 2011, to cement its dominant position as the leading internet search engine. The tech giant must now bring

Tommy Sheridan is appealing a decision to refuse him £200,000 in interest on a payout for defamation against former newspaper the News of the World. Mr Sheridan, a former MSP and one-time leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, won the sum after suing the publishers in 2006 at the Court of Ses

The number of criminals breaching home detention curfews rose last year, with more than one in five offenders now being recalled to jail, figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have revealed. Of the 1,434 individuals granted early releases from prison, 300 breached the order. That compa

Legal changes aimed at criminalising assistance to irregular migrants – meant to deter human trafficking – must not imperil human rights, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) has said. The CCBE said in a statement that it "wishes to express its utmost concern regar

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) latest survey claimed properties are taking longer to sell due to the “uninspiring” UK housing market. Last spring, it took an average of 16 weeks between a home being listed and being sold, according to RICS. However, ESPC said it believ

The text of Lady Hale's speech delivered in Edinburgh in June has been published. The speech, Devolution and the Supreme Court – 20 years On, was delivered at the Scottish Public Law Group 2018 in the Signet Library last month.