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The School of Law at the University of Aberdeen hosted this year’s Scottish Client Consultation Competition Final on 11 February. Representatives of six Scottish universities (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Robert Gordon and Strathclyde) participated in the contest, which simulates an initi

A think tank has said today the “epidemic” of burglary and shoplifting affecting the UK is being ignored by the criminal justice system. A report by the think tank Policy Exchange states that three quarters of all crime in the UK relates to property but that the courts and police are turning a b

Cloch Solicitors has welcomed an LLB student to the firm for work experience this week. Fraser Crombie (pictured) is gaining experience at the firm as part of its campus programme with the University of Stirling (now in its second year), and in fulfilment of a work based learning module at the Unive

Money seized from bankers is set to benefit the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Family Support Trust by £200,000. The money, collected from fines issued to banks found to be falsely inflating or deflating rates, will now be used to help care for personnel and their dependants who are injured, suff

Scottish Legal Training has some tickets available for its prestigious Clinical Negligence Masterclass to be held in Edinburgh next Monday – March 9.

A local council that gave away an historic public building in error is to ask for it back. Andrew Burns, Edinburgh City Council leader (pictured) has lodged an emergency motion to ask for the return of Parliament House from theScottish government after council officers failed to declare the building

Ampersand Advocates has announced that Dorothy Bain QC, Ailsa Carmichael QC, Aidan O'Neill QC and Laura-Anne van der Westhuizen have been appointed to the new panel of counsel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Hundreds paid tribute to criminal defence lawyer Joe Beltrami (pictured) at his funeral in Glasgow yesterday. Something of Mr Beltrami’s character was revealed at the requiem mass held for him following his death last week at the age of 82.

A man who settled his personal injury damages action has successfully appealed against a sheriff’s finding that no expenses were due to or by either party. Sheriff Principal Alastair Dunlop QC (pictured) found the defender liable to the pursuer in the expenses of the action after ruling that the s

The solicitor general, Lesley Thomson QC(pictured) has today announced a full review of the way agricultural crimes are prosecuted in Scotland. The issue of agricultural crime was recently discussed at a round table event in the Scottish parliament.

The Scottish parliament’s justice committee is to start taking evidence on new laws to fight human trafficking in Scotland. The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Billaims to clarify and strengthen the criminal law by introducing a new single human trafficking offence as well as increas

Councils across Scotland have received a barrage of freedom of information requests. Members of the public have asked such questions as Scotland’s contingency plans in the event of an invasion by ISIS as well as a request asking how many crocodiles there are in Perth and Kinross.

A Dundee law graduate had been made chief executive of a trade organisation for the offshore industry. Deirdre Michie (pictured) will replace Malcolm Webb as chief executive of Oil & Gas UK in May.

From left: Brandon Malone, chairman of the Scottish Arbitration Centre; Professor Pieter Bekker of CMS Cameron McKenna and ICEA partner CEPMLP; Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre; and Philippa Charles, head of international arbitration at Stewarts Law.

The devolution (further powers) committee today published its report on the section 30/63 order that would see the powers allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in future Scottish parliament and local authority elections transferred to the Scottish parliament. The Smith Commission recommended the tran