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Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has announced a raft of promotions. In Dunblane, private client expert Mirella Marchini has been made partner and property specialist Karen Crothers has been promoted to legal director.

Schoolchildren from eight local secondary schools took part in a successful MiniTrials event this weekend in Edinburgh.

Contracted workers in Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia were deceived by recruitment agents and labour supply companies, cheated of their earnings, housed in appalling conditions and prevented from finding alternative employment or leaving the country, Amnesty International said today.

An illustrated children's book was inadvertently shortlisted for censorship amid a US book-banning frenzy simply because the author's last name is Gay. Read Me a Story, Stella by Mary-Louise Gay was included on a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be removed from an Alabama public libr

TLT has announced a new ethnic diversity target designed to eliminate barriers to entry into the legal profession for aspiring ethnic minority lawyers and to improve diversity. This Black History Month 2023, the firm has set a target of 35 per cent ethnic minority representation across its early car

Brodies LLP has been reappointed to the City of Edinburgh Council's new Legal Services Framework where it will provide support in four out of the six available lots. The result of a competitive tender process run by the council but creating a framework that can be used by many local authorities acro

Neil Crockatt has been appointed as partner and head of residential property at Blackadders. Mr Crockatt has been a property solicitor for 29 years and has worked at partner and director level for firms in Perth, Glasgow and Dunfermline.

Glasgow University has introduced the world's first master's degree in reparatory justice. The degree has been established in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) and comes amid a global campaign for financial reparations stemming from the transatlantic slave trade.

Harper Macleod has been appointed to all six available lots on Edinburgh Council’s new legal services framework. Following a competitive tender process, the firm was appointed to the two-year framework on all six lots: commercial, property & planning, litigation, employment, major projects

A photographer groomed young women into taking part in modelling shoots in order to sexually assault them, a jury has found. Simon Scott, 44, from Aberdeen, was jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of offences against five victims.

The Scottish legal sector has welcomed 49 new solicitors at an admissions ceremony held at the historic Signet Library in Edinburgh.

The Dundee Legal Walk will be held later this month in aid of the Access to Justice Foundation. The walk, now in its second year in Dundee, will take place on Sunday 22 October and will be followed by a reception where there will be a short speech.

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has accepted instructions in an environmental justice case over the proposed industrialisation of St Fittick’s Park in Torry, Aberdeen. A petition for judicial review of a decision of Aberdeen City Council to lease and develop the park for industrial purposes was lodged

Customs officials have confiscated giraffe faeces from a traveller who said she planned to make a necklace from the droppings. The small box of ball-shaped droppings was declared by a woman returning from Kenya to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in the US.

Mercy killings will not always be prosecuted, new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service states. Cases in which the victim had a clear and informed desire to end their life or in which the suspected killer acted under significant emotional pressure could make prosecution unlikely.