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Frances Sim Restitution has expanded its team with the appointment of Frances Sim as general counsel to its Edinburgh office.

Pictured: Lord Hope of Craighead and Neil Mackenzie

A man has been jailed for six years for possessing a potentially lethal automatic weapon. Police officers discovered the Heckler and Koch submachine gun as part of a major investigation into serious organised crime.

Amnesty International has called on Israeli authorities to release 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, who will appear in court today over an altercation with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank last month. Ms Tamimi (pictured) will appear before Ofer military court accused of aggra

Pictured (L-R): Vanessa Kennedy and Lesley Naylor

Jim Duffy, a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row, will be running the London Marathon in aid of the London Legal Support Trust (LLST) this April. LLST supports law centres and legal advice agencies in London and the South East of England

In Friday's edition of SLN we reported on the case of KW v HMA in which defence counsel was referred to as "L Kennedy" in the official decision. The Supreme Courts have now amended the decision to indicate counsel's full name, which is Lewis K Kennedy – not to be confused with Laurence C Kennedy.

Fourteen new employment judges have been appointed to the panel of judges of Employment Tribunals (Scotland). By virtue of the power conferred upon the Lord President by regulation 8 of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013, Lord Carloway has appointed Clair

Hamilton conveyancing and wills specialists, Stirling Dunlop, and Blantyre divorce lawyers, Baker Gostelow Family Law have said both towns will benefit as they announce a merger and extend their range of services.

Residents of a street called "Bell End" have launched a petition to change the name because of its impact on house prices. But thousands of people have backed a rival petition seeking to protect the name, claiming that it has historical and sentimental value.

Gillian Ralph Perthshire law firm Macnabs is working in partnership with Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH), a local charity which supports, encourages and promotes the development and delivery of projects to relieve homelessness and poor housing in the Perth & Kinross area, to help them ra

From 12 January 2018, the Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (ASNTS) will transfer into the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. May Dunsmuir, the current President of the ASNTS, will become the President of this new Chamber. In addition, the Scottish Ch

Paul Hilton In their look back at 2017, ESPC found a continued shortage of properties in the Edinburgh market and a sustained increase in selling prices but have yet to see materialise fears that Brexit would have a negative impact on housing.

An appeal against conviction in which counsel for the appellant made “serious allegations” of impropriety against the trial judge and advocate depute has been dismissed after appeal judges ruled that the claims were “unfounded”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary also expressed

The Scottish regional branch of the Property Litigation Association has announced the appointment of its first junior members to the regional sub-committee: Magnus Miller of Davidson Chalmers LLP (pictured) and Chloe Postlethwaite of Brodies LLP. It said in a statement: “The Junior Property Litiga