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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has announced the appointment of Lisa Gillespie KC as deputy principal crown counsel. Ms Gillespie was admitted to the bar in 2005 and has been a full-time advocate depute since February 2014. She took silk in 2020. Ms Gillespie will support principal crown counsel Ashl

Former Scots lawyer, John Watt, who was sentenced in 2023 to a period of 10 years in prison for historical child sex abuse crimes, has been stripped of his title of King's Counsel. In line with the protocol for removal of the title, a panel comprising the lord justice general, the lord justice clerk

Police responding to a report of dangerous driving found a 103-year-old woman with an expired driving license at the wheel of an uninsured car. Giuseppina Molinari, born in 1920, was fined and taken home by police in Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region after being pulled over in the early hours o

Govan Law Centre has given evidence to MSPs on education in Scotland for children with additional support needs. Chloe Minto, senior solicitor in GLC's education law unit, appeared before the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee, which is considering how the Education

Macleod & MacCallum solicitor Elizabeth Wilson has been accredited as a trust and estate practitioner by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). STEP is a global organisation whose main aim is to help families plan for their future, with its membership including solicitors, trustee

The Scottish Child Law Centre has launched a new series of online masterclasses headed by the charity's new senior solicitor Jamie Speirs. Ms Speirs was previously a volunteer solicitor with the specialist hub for children's rights before joining as a permanent staff member last month.

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A group of Scottish Muslim women lawyers are aiming to raise £4,000 for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians by collectively walking 365 kilometres – covering as much ground as the whole Gaza Strip. The charity initiative comes against the backdrop of a devastating humanitarian crisi

Gilson Gray is celebrating a landmark win on behalf of its client, US-based private equity house Lime Rock Partners, following the successful defence of a multi-million-dollar court case. The claim, raised in the Court of Session in Edinburgh by prominent oil and gas businessman Robert Kidd, was und

Murray Beith Murray partner and head of rural property Andrew Linehan has been appointed as vice-president of the Scottish Agricultural Arbiters and Valuers Association (SAAVA). SAAVA provides advice to valuers, arbiters, auctioneers, surveyors, solicitors, accountants and others having professional

TikTok faces a ban in the United States, where the video-sharing platform has over 170 million users, under legislation backed by the US House of Representatives. The proposed Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would see the platform banned unless there is a chan

French train conductors receive a 10 per cent commission of fines they impose on ticketless travellers, leaked documents have revealed. The policy, which was not publicly known until it was reported in Le Parisien, has sparked fears that conductors are being incentivised to issue frivolous fines for

Sheriff Maryam Labaki has taken over as chair of the Faculty of Advocates' Tumbling Lassie Appeal, which has raised over £100,000 since its inception less than a decade ago. Alan McLean KC, who is stepping down as chair, said: "The Tumbling Lassie Appeal has been, from the outset, a team effor

The UK government's new, long-awaited definition of 'extremism' has been branded as a "dangerous gimmick" by human rights campaigners. Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove today published the government's new definition as the "first in a series of measures to tackle extremis

The Scottish government should be given responsibility for jobcentres to help tackle unemployment, a leading think tank has said. A new report from IPPR Scotland recommends the full devolution of employment support, warning that there are "vast disparities in philosophy and culture of approach" betw