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Angela Grahame QC In July 1995, one week after I called to the bar, I went to the High Court in Airdrie to be the Crown junior in a two-week sitting. The Advocate Depute had a separate room, and one morning a very senior criminal silk came along to negotiate a plea for his client. As was the role of

NewLaw Scotland is celebrating its 10th birthday. The Scottish office of the highly-successful ABS law firm opened on 6th March 2007.

Chris West Gillespie Macandrew has beaten its revenue growth target after it took in fees of £11.36 million for the year to February 28 2017, unaudited reports show.

Almost 160 couples in a village in eastern China have filed for divorce in order to gain more compensation for the demolition of their homes. Residents of Jiangbei village in Nanjing face mass eviction as the Chinese government plans to raze their village to build a new hi-tech zone, Nanjing Morning

David Coutts

Lady Paton A man convicted of culpable homicide some 50 years ago who claimed that his human rights had been breached because he had not been given a reasonable opportunity to rehabilitate himself after being transferred from the state hospital to prison has had his legal challenge dismissed.

Pictured: Donald Reid (left) and David Adie

Katy Wedderburn MacRoberts partner Katy Wedderburn updates SLN readers on the Trade Union Act 2016.

Mark McDonald

A landmark ruling from the Supreme Court could see property developers across the UK spared paying business rates on properties they are refurbishing. Judges have decided that a building should not be charged full business rates as if it were fully usable when it was undergoing refurbishment.

Leigh Herd Leigh Herd, construction disputes solicitor at Shepherd and Wedderburn has been confirmed as honorary secretary and treasurer of the Scottish branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Mohammed ‘Moha’ Ali A top investigative journalist in Kenya fears that British-backed police have placed him on their “kill list”, making him a “dead man walking”.

The liquidator of a multi-million pound hedge fund who raised a damages action against two Scottish legal firms for alleged “breached of contract, negligence, breach of fiduciary duties and dishonest assistance” has been granted a proof before answer. The Inner House of the Court of Session rule

Professor Stephen Tierney The upheaval of 2016 could overshadow every constitutional change since the late 19th century, writes Stephen Tierney, professor of constitutional theory at Edinburgh University and legal adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution in this year's SLN

Lord Keen of Elie QC The Advocate General, Richard Keen QC, has been fined £1,000 after admitting a firearms offence.