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CLT Scotland’s advanced offer for the next event in the Scots Law 2016Exhibition/Conference Series ends on Monday.

Lynsey Walker HBJ Gateley has appointed two of its former trainees to senior positions within the firm.

The Scottish Ministers have successfully challenged a judge’s decision to reduce a planning consent granted for the development of a new wind farm near Fort Augustus. Appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session overturned a decision of the Lord Ordinary, who allowed a petition for jud

The Scottish government has issued a consultation on raising fees in the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, the Sheriff Appeal Court, the Sheriff Court, the Sheriff Personal Injury Court, and the Justice of the Peace Court. Court fees are a major source of income for the Scottish Courts

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Gillian Craig The SLN Spotlight falls on MacRoberts partner Gillian Craig this week. Gillian joined MacRoberts in 2002 and has a particular interest in property litigation including lease disputes, rectification, variation of title conditions and CPO compensation claims. Clients say she “impresses

The Communication from the Commission on aid to the banking sector is valid, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. In particular, burden-sharing by shareholders and subordinated creditors as a prerequisite for the authorisation, by the Commission, of state aid to a bank with a

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has successfully defended an ordinary cause action at Glasgow Sheriff Court for an alleged consumer credit debt of £7,500.

Macdonald Henderson has acted for a shareholder consortium of St Mirren Football Club in the sale of a controlling interest in the club to property developer Gordon Scott and the St Mirren fans. Mr Scott joined forces with the St Mirren Independent Supporters Association to buy out the consortium in

Lianne Lodge There has been a substantial increase in the number of powers of attorney registered in Scotland by those below the age of retirement, according to figures obtained from the Office of the Public Guardian by Gillespie Macandrew.

Pictured (L-R): Greg Gordon, University of Aberdeen Law School, Lord Reed, University of Aberdeen principal, Professor Sir Ian Diamond, Lord Hope and Dr Christopher Kee

A tour of the Faculty of Advocates and Parliament House - and judges’ wigs - caught the imagination of a group of more than 20 students from the United States who are visiting Scotland. Through a longstanding partnership with Aberdeen University, the law schools of the University of Baltimore and

Inmates at a prison have alleged “serious medical neglect”, prompting an investigation, The Herald reports. Sixty-five prisoners have signed a petition drawing attention to the failings of the medical services at HMP Edinburgh.

A solicitor who resigned as a partner in a Scots law firm following a dispute about his entitlement to certain payments has failed in his claim against the firm. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session allowed an appeal by RGM Solicitors against former partner John Fraser Tait, after rulin

Lord Bracadale A Court of Session judge has been appointed Scotland’s new “surveillance tsar” in the wake of police spying revelations.