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Brodies LLP has again been recognised by the annual Chambers UK High Net Worth Guide for advising clients on high-value personal and family matters. The firm maintains band 1 rankings for private wealth law services in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and as national leaders outside London. Brodies

The University of Aberdeen Law School has once again opened its doors to students from the USA as part of its Baltimore/Maryland Summer School.

A Fife man who beat his partner to death with a tyre iron in the culmination of years of violence against women has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. Unemployed Mark Campbell, 37, murdered his girlfriend through a sustained attack in the hours after inducing her to discharge herself from hospit

Rod Hutchison – a corporate law practitioner with over 20 years’ experience – has joined Aberdein Considine as a partner in the firm’s corporate and commercial team in Aberdeen. He specialises in mergers & acquisitions, acting for investee companies on securing equity inv

Dr David Caddick has been appointed to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) board. Dr Caddick was appointed as a JP on the Inverness Bench in 2018. He holds an undergraduate degree, three masters degrees and a PhD and was awarded an MBE in 1995.

The Law Society of Scotland has called for urgent action to resolve major disruption caused to Scottish criminal courts by failing custody arrangements. Criminal practitioners have reported major delays to proceedings at courts across Scotland as a result of inadequate service levels being provided

A dozen Caribbean countries are considering asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on the issue of reparations for the slave-trade and European colonial violence. Ralph Gonsalves, president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), told Th

More than 21,000 people in Russia have been the target of repressive laws and practices by the Russian authorities to suppress the country’s anti-war movement, said Amnesty International today. Russian authorities are using a wide range of repressive tactics to crack down on anti-war activists

Antiquities lent by Israel to the United States are believed to be at former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida despite repeated appeals for their return. The ancient ceramic oil lamps were loaned to the White House for a Hanukkah candle-lighting event in 2019 with the strict prov

The Scottish Ministerial Code has been updated to "further strengthen transparency and propriety". Updates to the code include:

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and the Law Society of Scotland have called on the Scottish government's newly formed tax advisory group to embark on an active reform agenda. In a joint letter to the Scottish government, they underscored the necessity for improved public aw

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has launched a survey on protected characteristics in order to ensure that any future development of Civil Online best meets the needs and requirements of users. The survey will be included in all emails generated via Civil Online, as well as placed on strat

The Scottish Prison Service is installing landline phones in cells for the first time to support family contact, mental health and wellbeing, and reduce the risk of reoffending. They will replace prison-issued mobile phones, which were introduced as a temporary measure during the pandemic, when in-p

An oil company has been fined £650,000 for health and safety failings which led to the tragic death of a contractor. BP Exploration Operating Company Limited was found guilty of a health and safety breach at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 14 July 2023.

The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) has announced that Dr Thomas Muinzer, co-director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, and Dr Tabetha Kurtz-Shefford, senior lecturer in law (University of Swansea) have been re-elected as co-convenors of the energy law section of the SLS for another