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To mark the Edinburgh Foundation for Women in Law's 10th anniversary, join co-founders Professor Lesley McAra and Karina McTeague for the EFWiL Reflections Lecture 2024 on Thursday, 24 October. They will discuss the past, present and future of EFWiL’s work to break down barriers, promote equal

A former police officer has admitted stealing £2.50 from an arrestee to pay off a paltry debt at the police station tuck shop. James Tillcock would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already resigned, Thames Valley Police (TVP) said following a misconduct hearing.

Barriers faced by unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) in accessing local authority support is the subject of a new report published by JustRight Scotland. In 2023, more than 3,400 UASCs arrived in the UK seeking protection. Beyond this statistic, there is a growing number of unaccompan

Keir Starmer has been urged not to replace the previous UK government's Rwanda scheme with a new Albania scheme. The prime minister met yesterday with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, who has struck a deal with Albania for asylum seekers to be processed there.

The last vestiges of 'brat summer' have brought forth a treasure in the form of Professor Nicholas Grier appearing on film to offer us a tour of his institution – in the idiom of Gen Z. The commercial law professor at Abertay University, sorry Aber-slay, formerly of Edinburgh Napier, said "I h

British restaurateur, author and TV personality Nisha Katona MBE and former first minister, Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale, will be among the guest speakers at CMS Scotland’s business conference next month. Hosted by broadcaster Kirsty Wark, CMS’s annual On Point conference takes place

The Tayside Solicitors Property Centre (TSPC) Property Investor Evening will take place at TSPC, 11 Whitehall Crescent, Dundee, from 5.30pm until 7pm on Thursday, 26 September 2024. Speakers sharing stories and guidance will include a Dundee couple who swapped policing for property.

Ampersand Advocates has received an impressive six shortlist nominations across five categories for The Legal 500’s Scotland Awards 2024. Una Doherty KC is nominated for Silk of the Year. Tim Young and Ayla Iridag are both up for Junior of the Year. Alan Moffat is shortlisted for Clerk of the

Nearly half of the UK's biggest law firms last year saw their best revenue results since the financial crisis of 2008. Only 11 firms in the top 100 failed to grow last year, new research shows, with 44 firms recording revenue increase of 10 per cent or more.

A coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations has demanded that the Scottish government fulfil its promise to introduce the Scottish Human Rights Bill. In a letter to First Minister John Swinney, the organisations express their frustration at the bill’s exclusion from the current le

Four of Shoosmiths’ Kiltwalk participants, including Jen Paton (mini kilt) and Andrew Foyle (kilt) at the Kiltwalk Edinburgh finish. On Sunday 13 fit and hardy lawyers from Shoosmiths' office in Edinburgh donned their hiking boots and kilts to join thousands of others for the annual Edinburgh

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has instructed a complete reinvestigation of the 2004 murder of Alistair Wilson in Nairn. A new team of prosecutors from the Crown Office and a new team of officers from Police Scotland will work on the full cold-case investigation.

Concerns have been raised regarding the inquiry into a £1 billion banking fraud case at HBOS, after it was revealed that evidence is still being received in its eighth year. Former high court judge Dame Linda Dobbs, who was appointed in 2017 to investigate Lloyds Banking Group's alleged cover-

An unruly passenger whose behaviour forced his plane to divert has been ordered to repay the airline for the additional fuel costs. In an unusual move, a court in Perth, Australia ruled that the 33-year-old man should pay $8,630 AUD (around €5,200 or £4,400) to the airline to cover fuel c

More than a million calls to Police Scotland’s 101 crime hotline have been ignored over the past two years, new figures show. The number is used as an alternative to 999 for the public to report crimes including antisocial behaviour, assaults and vandalism.