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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.

The General Court of the European Union has confirmed the Commission’s decision to accept the commitments of Thomson Reuters intended to remedy its abuse of a dominant position in the market for consolidated real-time datafeeds. Consolidated real-time datafeeds provide banks and financial institut

Rebecca Walker

The Faculty of Advocates and lawyers’ groups from around the globe have expressed solidarity with lawyers in Egypt as they increasingly face arrest and detention. Dorothy Bain QC, convener of the Faculty’s Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee, is a signatory to a letter which has been sent to

Lawyers at CMS took part in the Scottish Half Marathon and 10km on Sunday 18 September 2016.

Four members of Edinburgh Law School took part in the University's “Big Leap” on Sunday by abseiling down the Law School's temporary home, David Hume Tower, to raise funds for the University's Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC). Rebecca Samaras (director of Edinburgh Centre for Professional Legal S