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Lindsay Bryce MacKay

A St Bernard dog has been saved from destruction, after a successful appeal by counsel who acted pro bono. Douglas, a three-year-old St Bernard, attacked a jackadoodle, which had to be put down, and its owner in Arbroath, and a sheriff made an order for the dog’s destruction.

Pictured (L-R): Nazhat Ahmed - development officer at Abertay, Michaela Mills, Lauren Smith, Gordon McBean, Cat McCann, Carol-Ann Smith head of alumni and development at Abertay and Kirsten Dickie.

The mother of a child who developed “significant disabilities” following complications during her labour has successfully sued a Scottish health board after claiming that her baby daughter’s injuries were caused by the “fault and negligence” of hospital staff. A judge in the Court of Sessi

John Paul Sheridan John Paul Sheridan discusses prescription in the wake of ICL Plastics.

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Jeremy Barton KPMG, one of the “big four” accountancy practices is to recruit six India-based lawyers as it makes moves into the legal market.

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has published its annual report detailing its successes in balancing landlords and tenants' rights in new tenancies legislation as well as the fraught issue of "up front" rent.

Edinburgh-based legal historian Karen Baston’s monograph Charles Areskine’s Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment has been nominated by publisher Brill for the De Long Book History Prize Charles Areskine might be better known to legal scholars as Lord Tinwald

Caroline Pringle

Falkirk-based MTM Defence Lawyers has received a top-tier legal accreditation in the latest edition of the Legal 500. MTM is one of only four firms ranked as a top tier firm in Scotland for criminal law; the firm is also ranked and recommended for its work in fraud cases. MTM is recognised in the fo

A man accused on summary complaint of housebreaking against whom solemn proceedings over the same incident were dropped following an appeal has failed in a plea to have the case against him deserted. The Sheriff Appeal Court refused an appeal by Donnie Potts, who challenged a sheriff’s decision to

Lauren Sutherland

Alison Newton Lawyers have warned that plans to reveal who owns Scotland’s land could deter “some highly respectable – and respected – investors” who require “commercial discretion” from investing in Scotland, The Herald reports.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has upheld 12 charges against a social worker involved in the case of the murdered toddler Liam Fee. The panel found that Lesley Bate, 60, had failed Liam and 14 other children and that in some cases these failings amounted to neglect.