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Kee Solicitors has welcomed Dean Gallacher to to its team as a family and civil solicitor. Mr Gallacher graduated from the University of Glasgow with an LLB and the diploma before completing his traineeship in 2022.

UK government schemes to relocate Afghans to Britain are failing, according to a new report from JUSTICE. The publication of Reforming the Afghanistan Resettlement Schemes: the way forward for ARAP and ACRS marks the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Advocate and barrister Alan Inglis has passed away at the age of 66. A member of Arnot Manderson Advocates and 4PB, Mr Inglis was a highly experienced family lawyer and the only specialist family counsel to practise in both Scotland and in England and Wales. He appeared in most of the landmark cases

A man who tried to smuggle controlled drugs worth thousands of pounds into Scotland disguised as pet food has been jailed for four years and two months. Packages addressed to Toby Bishop, 21, of Glenogil, Angus, were sent from Germany and declared as cat food. But when UK Border force officers inspe

The corporate group at Burges Salmon has advised Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company, on a £4m funding package to support the development of cell analysis solutions for the biopharma industry and fast-track novel therapies to market. The investment round was led by existing invest

A winery which boasted of its "unique process" has been forced to surrender thousands of bottles of wine illegally fermented in the ocean. California-based Ocean Fathoms offered bottles "adorned with barnacles, coral, sea shells and ornate hard shelled tubes formed by annelida sea worms" after under

In the almost 30 years since the introduction of protocols for personal injury claims, voluntary then compulsory, pursuers and defenders alike have often accused each other of failing to act “within the spirit” of the applicable protocol. The well-worn issue was raised again in two recen

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is hosting its inaugural Golf Day, sponsored by The Cashroom Limited. Golfers of all abilities are welcome.

Canadian Professor of Social Work, Edward Kruk, will talk in Edinburgh next week on how family courts get in the way of resolving disagreement between parents after separation.

A sentencing guideline which means that rapists under the age of 25 can be spared from prison due to their reduced capacity for sound judgment is to be reviewed. The principle behind the guideline from the the Scottish Sentencing Council is that rehabilitation should be the “primary consi

Ailidh Ballantyne has been promoted to senior associate director at Scullion LAW. Managing director at Scullion LAW, Nicholas Scullion, said: “Congratulations once again, Ailidh! Your promotion is well-earned, and here's to a future filled with happiness, success, and recognition.”

A fugitive who was extradited from Brazil has been jailed for nine years and ten months after pleading guilty to offences linked to serious organised crime James White, 46, was sentenced at the High Court in Stirling after admitting a charge of directing serious organised crime.

A number of new sheriffs have been appointed to serve Glasgow & Strathkelvin, Grampian, Highland and Islands, Lothian & Borders, North Strathclyde, South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and Tayside, Central & Fife Sheriffdoms. Louise Arrol KC, Owen Mullan, Craig Findlater, Neil Wils

Dundee Sheriff Court will host a memorial service for the late William Boyle on Friday 18 of August at 1pm. Scottish Legal News published an obituary for Mr Boyle last month.

Currently, companies which benefit from fraudulent acts by employees or contractors are rarely prosecuted, but that will almost certainly change when new laws come into force which make it far easier to prosecute and to hold companies criminally liable for failing to prevent fraud from which they be