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PBW Law has appointed new solicitor Regan Wallace to join its growing team. Mr Wallace holds an LLB from the University of Dundee and obtained his diploma from the University of Strathclyde.

A taxpayer-funded green scheme to replace a Crown Office boiler has been branded "absurd" after it emerged it would take almost a millennium for the costs to be recouped. The price of decarbonising Elgin’s Procurator Fiscal office has risen to £3.5 million.

Blanket bans on guns in post offices are incompatible with the US Constitution, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who was controversially nominated by President Trump as a judge for life at the age of just 33, said a "blanket restriction on firearms possession in post offices

The UK government has been urged to reconsider its position on parental leave rights. Minister for 'keeping the promise', Natalie Don, has written to the UK government calling for statutory parental leave rights to be extended to kinship carers.

Aberdein Considine has expanded its wealth management operation, AC Wealth, with the appointment of Ross Leckridge as a chartered financial planner to the firm's newly established Edinburgh division of its financial planning team. Mr Leckridge, a fellow of the Personal Finance Society, brings more t

It is “incumbent” on Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC to answer questions on the Post Office Horizon scandal, the SNP's Westminster leader has said. Stephen Flynn said that Ms Bain should explain why prosecutions occurred after concerns over the Horizon system emerged in 2013.

A sheriff has been removed from a fatal accident inquiry over extreme delays in publishing her findings. On June 29 2014, Warren Fenty, 20, suffered a drug overdose and died while in Kittybrewster jail.

A date has been set for the appeal of three subpostmasters over the Horizon scandal. Rab Thomson, Ravinder Naga and Aleid Kloosterhuis are hoping to have their convictions quashed after they were prosecuted for fraud.

Former advocate Mark Strachan, 64, has been jailed for two years after being convicted of sexually abusing two boys. He carried out his abuse 20 years ago when he was lawyer to the boys' family. He touched them sexually in 1999 and 2001 at addresses in Aberdeen. A jury found him guilty by a majority

Brodies LLP in partnership with Edinburgh Law School presents Planning and the climate and nature crises: delivering National Planning Framework 4 – a talk with Fiona Simpson. This lecture will reflect on the evolution of national spatial planning in Scotland, including the significant shift i

Blackadders LLP has reported increased turnover and profit in its latest accounts. The firm's turnover for 2022/23 was £16.7 million, including Blackadders Wealth Management LLP. Profits stood at £4.23m.

Dear Editor, The prime minister asserts the wish to overturn the convictions of the sub-postmasters "swiftly" by legislation which could be in place by the end of the year.

A sheriff who was suspended on full pay for five years over claims he acted inappropriately towards a female lawyer is at the centre of a £120,000 vicarious liability case at the Court of Session. Sheriff Jack Brown, who was suspended in 2018, is awaiting the outcome of a separate tribunal cas

Dictionaries have been removed from Florida school libraries to comply with a new law on children's access to descriptions of "sexual conduct". Five dictionaries are on a list of more than 1,600 books removed from school library shelves in the Escambia County district in December pending a deeper in

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC could be called to Holyrood to explain the Crown Office's actions during the Post Office Horizon scandal. Prosecutors were told of issues in 2013 – yet they continued to pursue cases until 2015.