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Gordon Jackson QC Scottish ministers have announced a review of the regulation of legal services with a view to making independent recommendations to reform and modernise the statutory framework for the regulation of legal services and complaints handling.

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A QC who served the Faculty of Advocates in two office-bearer posts has been installed as a Senator of the College of Justice. Alan Summers took the judicial title of Lord Summers at the ceremony in the First Division courtroom in Parliament House.

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Peter Boyd An Edinburgh lawyer has been invited as the sole Scottish representative to participate in a Commons committee discussing the potential value of the burgeoning equity release industry.

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Emma Guthrie Emma Guthrie spends most of her days as a solicitor in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s property and infrastructure team. However, for 18 days in March Emma was also in New York as a delegate at the 61st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), attending on behalf of the Wor

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From today the Tax Chamber within the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland takes on the functions and members of the former First–tier Tax Tribunal for Scotland. The new Chamber President is Anne Scott.

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Members of the public will have the chance to make their voices heard on the transformation of Scotland’s summary justice system at a meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday 25 April. The meeting, from 4:30 to 6pm at the Apex Hotel in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, is the first of a number of roadshows being

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Lord Jones A 117-mile walk in memory of Lord (Mike) Jones will raise funds for the hospital unit where he was treated after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke.

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