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A graphic design student exhibiting at this year’s University of Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show has used Britain’s love of tea as a way of highlighting the humanity of prisoners, regardless of their crimes.

Stephen McGowan TLT is to sponsor the “Gin Bar of the Year” award at the inaugural Scottish Gin Awards.

Nine staff have been made redundant as Hamilton Burns WS Limited, the Glasgow-based immigration, criminal, matrimonial and civil practice law firm, goes into administration.

A man accused of being in possession of indecent images of children has failed in an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to extend the time bar for prosecutors to bring him to trial. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after ruling that the sheriff applied the correct test and could not b

Six new members join one familiar face on the Law Society of Scotland Council as representatives for two the constituencies of Aberdeen, Banff, Peterhead and Stonehaven and Edinburgh. Ten solicitors stood for the five available Edinburgh seats and Colin Anderson was successfully re-elected after thr

A hotel is facing a lawsuit after a patron at its bar got so drunk that he fell off his stool. David Waugaman, 57, is seeking thousands in damages after he fell with such severity that he needed to be hospitalised for an injury to his right shoulder.

Lord Beckett Two lead cases against the pharmaceutical company Pfizer have been appointed to proof before answer by Lord Beckett (pictured) following a procedure roll debate.

Jonathan Gilbert of the Edinburgh Watch Company (left), Lifetime Achievement Award Sponsors, with award winner Malcolm Mackay of United Employment Lawyers. Photography by http://www.keithinglis.com/

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace has announced the appointment of two trainee solicitors within the firm, Thomas Procter and Brittany Robson. The pair are not entirely new to RCC&W having both worked at the Aberdeen-based law firm for a number of years.

Laura McDowall Blackadders has announced that Laura McDowall has been accredited as a specialist in incapacity and mental disability law by the Law Society of Scotland.

A court officer and popular staff member at Perth Sheriff Court has retired at the age of 65, the Perth Advertiser reports. Colin Aldous began his 15-year career at the court in 2002 following a varied working life including six-and-a-half years with the RAF.

Malcolm McPherson Addleshaw Goddard will prioritise growth in Aberdeen when it takes over HBJ Gateley at the beginning of next month, The Herald reports.

Gordon Jackson QC Next weekend I'm going to a reunion to celebrate, if that's the right word, 50 years since going to Dundee to study law. There were four women in the class. Some years later I joined the Faculty. Four women there as well. The law clearly was the preserve of white men with the odd t

Professor Liz Campbell The preservation of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) scheme is preferable to a system of bilateral agreements, a new paper argues.