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Criminal defence solicitor Anna MacKay has been promoted to senior associate director at Scullion LAW. She said: “I am delighted to accept this promotion, and I am grateful that my hard work has been recognised by the team and the firm. I look forward to taking on new challenges and helpi

A rapist who sexually abused six young girls and two women over the course of 43 years has been jailed. Michael Conway was found guilty of 14 charges on June 11 following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.

Scottish house prices saw a 4.3 per cent year-on-year increase in June 2024, reaching an average of £192,000, and outpacing the UK average growth, according to Registers of Scotland. As compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland were unchanged on a non-seasonally adjusted basis

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a new report examining how victims of domestic abuse view sentencing in Scotland. The research, conducted by Glasgow Caledonian University, provides insights into the experiences and perspectives of victims. Researchers interviewed 24 women across Scotla

A man suing Disney for the alleged wrongful death of his fiancée has been told suing breaches the terms of his Disney+ subscription. Disney's lawyers raised eyebrows internationally by telling a New York court that Jeffrey Piccolo had agreed to handle all disputes with the company through arb

Scottish charity RSABI is extending its thanks to the 135 or so competitors, and support team members, who are set to take part in this year’s Great Glen Challenge, sponsored by Gillespie Macandrew.

Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter Internati

The Scottish Prison Service has been urged to stop routine body-searching of female inmates following an inspection of a new £85 million “therapeutic” jail. Chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, made the recommendation after an inspection of the female pri

The Dundee Legal Walk 2024 will take place on Wednesday 2 October. Legal walks are held all over the UK and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation to fund free legal advice in the form of grants to advice charities working in communities that need it most.

A man caught with a cache of homemade “zip” guns and ammunition in his house has been jailed for five years. The haul was discovered when police, acting on intelligence, carried out a search of Salvatore Lupi’s flat in Glasgow.

There were 792 probable suicides in 2023, an increase of 30 on the previous year, new figures from National Records of Scotland show. Self-harm is also a risk factor for suicide and last year saw the launch in Scotland of an action plan focused on tackling the issue. This includes funding for a new

Next steps to address violence against women and girls, including measures to combat culturally specific forms of violence, have been unveiled. The latest Equally Safe Delivery Plan – developed in partnership with COSLA – focuses on prevention of abuse across Scotland’s communities

Macdonald Henderson has advised Turnkey IPS, a provider of software solutions to the insolvency industry, on an investment by Bowmark Capital, a private equity firm. Established by Dr Barry Wood in 1980, Turnkey has grown to become the market leader for corporate restructuring and insolvency softwar

Gibson Kerr has made four new appointments and three promotions after it recorded a 25 per cent increase in turnover to £3 million. Among those joining Gibson Kerr is Linsey Dagger, who becomes the firm’s head of personal law.

Aberdeen University's Professor Anatole Boute will present his book Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality on Thursday. Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine administered an unprecedented shock to the European and global energy markets, triggering emergency int