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Sir Declan Morgan Thursday 10 November

A child contact case that had been in a succession of courts for seven years - almost all of the life of the child involved - appears to have reached a conclusion in a judgment by Lord Brailsford published last week. In AH v. CH Scotland's senior family judge ordered that direct contact by a father

A motorist who was given a community payback order and banned from the road after he admitted falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into an oncoming vehicle has successfully appealed against his sentence, in the first reported Scottish decision to consider the offence of causing injury by dangero

Judith Robertson

Jack Robertson Thorntons’ chairman Jack Robertson has been awarded a prestigious “Outstanding Contribution” award for his sustained success over a career spanning five decades.

David Pester David Pester has been re-elected as managing partner of TLT Solicitors for a further three year term from April 2017 by a unanimous all partner vote. This will be Mr Pester’s sixth term as managing partner.

The Law Society of Scotland will be hosting the first of a series of Brexit-themed seminars on Thursday 3 November with an expert panel from the Scottish legal profession and academic community. Thursday’s sold out event will combine keynote speeches and roundtable discussions on broad constitutio

James McMillan Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) has recruited business and white collar crime specialist James McMillan as an associate in its commercial dispute resolution department. He will join the firm’s well established fraud, investigations and business crimes team led by accredited coun

Professor Richard Susskind Professor Richard Susskind has called for a slow and modest introduction of an online court, Legal Futures reports.

Lord Neuberger At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular.

David Morgan (left) and Graham Mitchell

Gemma Lampert Gemma Lampert and Will Anderson look at whether a lump sum can be extracted from a pension and treated as income to pay creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.

A car finance company which applied to a court to have a customer jailed after he failed to pay the instalments have had their application refused by a sheriff. The pursuers Moneybarn No 1 had agreed with the defender Steven Bell that he would purchase a car for a specified sum, but he did not pay a

The Law Society of Scotland has published its annual plan for 2016/17 featuring 30 key projects aimed at delivering year two of the Law Society’s five year strategy, “Leading Legal Excellence”.The plan outlines projects within each of the Law Society’s five strategic goals to assure, serve,

A solicitor guilty of embezzling over £21,000 from a law firm in Edinburgh has sold his house to repay the sum. Paul O’Donnell, 35, has moved in with relatives after declaring bankruptcy and leaving the profession.