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Blackadders LLP has boosted its Aberdeen residential property team by recruiting Claire Ogston as its new director. Ms Ogston has more than 17 years’ experience in residential property and is an expert in the Aberdeen market having been born, raised and educated in the city. She is joining Bla

Anderson Strathern has bolstered its senior team with the appointment of a partner and a further four directors. The new appointees are partner Kevin McGlone and legal directors Janice Napier and Stephen Clark. Scott Flannigan and Sophia Li have both been promoted to director.

Almost all of Scotland's defence solicitors are prepared to boycott the Scottish government's proposed juryless trials pilot, meaning it will most likely not run. Appearing before MSPs on Holyrood's Justice Committee, Simon Brown, vice-president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA), sai

A police officer who sold his trousers online for a miserly sum has been demoted. Owen Hurley, an inspector with Hertfordshire Police, sold his police-issue trousers on Vinted for £4, the BBC reports.

A new show investigates how the Post Office's Horizon scandal ruined lives in Scotland. For more than a decade, Scottish prosecutors took dozens of former postmasters to court based on potentially flawed computer data. In Scotland's Post Office Scandal, reporter Mark Daly investigates how the Post O

Drugs minister Elena Whitham has resigned from the Scottish government for health reasons. Ms Whitham was appointed to the post in March last year, after previously serving as minster for community safety.

Bellwether Green’s head of employment Marianne McJannett is taking part in (A Little Less) Strictly Come Dancing to help raise funds for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice. She has been paired up with Craig Murdoch and is learning a routine which she’ll then perform in front of h

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have urged the Scottish government to "get serious" over the funding challenges facing policing as new figures reveal that police officer numbers are now at their lowest level since the second quarter of 2008. The Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics show

Holyrood's Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee is looking at the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Bill and is asking those affected by the changes to have their say on what impact these will have. Measures in the bill include allowing foreign nationals with limited

TLT has again achieved a ‘B’ score for good environmental management from CDP, an independent, global non-profit that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure platform. CDP scoring provides a snapshot of a company’s disclosure and environmental performance and plays

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie advised on Sharles Chartered Accountants' transition to employee ownership at the end of 2023. Sharles Chartered Accountants, a well-established firm with a 60-year legacy in Lanarkshire, has been a cornerstone in the local business community.

Dentons is advising the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on its anchor investment in The Green Guarantee Company (GGC), the world’s first climate-focused guarantee company. GCC is set to unlock billions in climate finance for developing countries by providing guarantees for

Property sales were up in the November 2023 – January 2024 period, according to the latest ESPC House Price Report.

Gibson Kerr’s Nadine Martin is now the first lawyer in Scotland accredited by the law society of Scotland as a specialist in Family law, child law, and family mediation along with certifications in both trauma-informed legal practice and people management. She has also become one of 12 solicit

A national hub is to be created to support women out of prostitution. A pilot of the hub will begin in summer followed by a phased national roll out. The hub will bring together specialist services which support women "affected by commercial sexual exploitation" (CSE) – linking them more close