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Alex Small, a solicitor in Arbroath and a former honorary sheriff of Angus, has passed away at the age of 73, The Courier reports. Mr Small was a past captain of Arbroath Golf Club and an accomplished photographer. He was born in Forfar to James Small, a railway clerk and his wife Anna.

Coulters has bolstered its team through a merger with solicitors and estate agent, Purdie & Co. The deal adds four new colleagues – including Purdie partner Struan Douglas – to Coulters’ 36-strong team.

Two TV judges walked off the set of The Masked Singer after the disguised contestant was revealed to be former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to reports. The show sees a panel of four judges try to guess the identity of a performer wearing a unique costume, with celebrities and politicians al

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Thorntons has appointed nine lawyers in Dundee. David Milne and Kyle Moir join as partners in commercial real estate and will be supported by paralegal Kirsty Smith and legal secretary Lesley Wilkinson.

Ryanair has lost an appeal against an English court ruling that it must compensate customers whose flights are cancelled as a result of strike action. The Court of Appeal in London this week upheld the High Court's earlier ruling in April 2021, which said that the Irish airline must compensate thous

The law commissions of England, Scotland and Wales have produced a joint report setting out their recommendations for a regulatory framework concerning automated vehicles. If the idea of vehicles capable of driving themselves dominating the local high street seems at present somewhat futuristic, sof

Levy & McRae has launched L&M MediLaw, a new offering focused on bringing expertise to medical negligence claims. The venture will be led by senior associate Elizabeth Rose who is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in medical negligence claims. Ms Rose and her team wil

A Glasgow man who illegally dumped asbestos on private land has been fined. Iain McGuiness, who owned a building maintenance company at the time, drove a van containing the waste to a site in the city’s London Road on 24 October 2019.

Clyde & Co’s team in Scotland has successfully defended its client and their insured in a case relating to damages following a fire in a storage building formerly called the ‘turkeytorium’. DC Watson & Sons (Fenton Barns) Ltd leased a storage unit in the building to Philip

The former employer of the driver involved in the 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash has successfully defended an action by Glasgow City Council seeking to recover over £6 million it paid in settlements to claimants affected by the crash. It was averred by the pursuer that First Glasgow Ltd owed it

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the £1,012 fee required to register children as British citizens, while recognising that the fee excludes large numbers of children from their rights. The ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge was brought by the Project for the Registra

Thursday 24 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association is collaborating with Harper Macleod LLP to host ‘Spotlight on...Decarbonisation and Natural Capital’.

Final year law students Cameron Irons, Zosia Zakrzewska, James Beattie and Calum McArthur have been selected to represent the University of Dundee and Scotland at this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, which sees teams across Europe meet at The Peace Palace in The Hague,

A project that brings the law to schools has an opportunity for a new lawyer. MiniTrials – conceived by Lord Kinclaven – was launched in 2002 and has helped thousands of pupils throughout Scotland learn about the legal system.