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Aberdein Considine has appointed Emma Roman as a senior solicitor in Edinburgh. Having gained an LLB from the University of Aberdeen in 2015, she obtained her diploma at the University of Edinburgh in 2016.

DAC Beachcroft, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has reported an increase in profits by nearly a fifth to reach £67 million. The firm today announced its provisional, unaudited results for the year ending 30 April 2021, with turnover up by seven per cent to £275 million.

Homeowners are being urged to install interlinked heat and smoke alarms in a nationwide media campaign launched before new fire safety laws come into effect next year. From February all homeowners will be required to have interlinked alarms under legislation brought forward after the Grenfell Tower

Geronimo the alpaca will be slaughtered after a High Court bid to stop his execution failed. The animal, which tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, is to be slaughtered on the orders of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The collection rate of court fines is reaching pre-pandemic levels, figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show. The three-year collection rates for all fine/penalty types show improvement for both value and number with the figures as of 19 April 2021 compared with 19 July 2021.

The number of sole practitioners in England and Wales has declined by nearly a half in the past decade, according to new analysis of Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) data. There were 3,640 sole practitioners in July 2011, making up a third of all solicitors, but the figure has fallen by 47 per

Sardinian authorities have pleaded with tourists not to steal sand from its famous beaches, such as the iconic pink beach on Budelli. At least six tonnes of sand has been stolen from Sardinian beaches this year so far, according to campaign group Sardinia Robbed and Plundered.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an Iraqi citizen of Kurdish ethnicity who claimed to be involved in a blood feud permission to appeal the refusal of his judicial review petition against the Upper Tribunal. HMH, the appellant, claimed that he was at a real risk of persec

An organisation for LGBT+ legal professionals in Scotland has refused an invitation from the Faculty of Advocates to co-host a Pride event on the basis "the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates continuously and publicly supports the opinions and words of actively transphobic rights groups". In a stateme

The vast majority of responses to a Scottish government consultation support the pardoning of miners found guilty of offences in the 1984-85 strike. Eighty-seven per cent of responses supported pardoning them over breach of the peace and 86 per cent over breach of bail convictions.

The public sector should play a greater role in the housing land market, the Scottish Land Commission has said. In a new report it sets out five suggestions:

Gibson Kerr has announced the appointment of Nadine Martin as a family law associate in Glasgow. Ms Martin is accredited as a specialist by the Law Society of Scotland in both family law and child law and is also an accredited family mediator.

New figures show that 58 High Court cases were concluded in July, which is 86 per cent of the average pre-Covid level. Figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show that during July 2021:

Four employees of a prison escort firm were sacked after they allegedly assaulted a prisoner in a court's cells. The Geoamey workers were accused of attacking the inmate at Hamilton Sheriff Court last March.

The Polish government has agreed to dissolve a controversial disciplinary chamber for judges in a climb-down following a European court ruling. The European Commission initiated infringement proceedings in April 2020 in regards to the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court on the basis that it th