Solicitor Morag McNeill has been appointed as chair of The Robertson Trust, the largest independent grant-making trust in ...

Tony Lenehan KC remains the top earner of legal aid fees, new figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board show. In 2023-24, Mr Lenehan's fees were £450,000, an increase of £50,000 on the previous year.

Blackadders LLP has moved into its new office space in the heart of Dundee city centre.

Pinsent Masons Vario has announced the appointment of Gary Gray as the first legal director of its Company Secretarial (CoSec) team. He joins Vario in Edinburgh after 18 years with Burness Paull, the ...

Jesus was not opposed to the death penalty, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow told veterans of Russia's illegal war on Ukraine that Christ had "suffered ...

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Alice Leggat as a director of the board. Alice Leggat, a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales, is head of legal at SSE Thermal, ...

Newly released official data suggests that demand for legal aid support is no longer able to be met by the shrinking pool of solicitors working in the scheme. The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) ...

Dundee Law School has established a new partnership with The College of Legal Practice for students taking the English LLB. The college will offer the university’s law students an opportunity to take ...

Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) must pay a former employee £70,000 and publicly apologise to her after she was constructively dismissed for her beliefs about gender. An employment tribunal had alr ...

Scullion LAW has expanded its family law team with the appointment of associate director Claire Thomas and paralegal Carly Russell. Ms Thomas graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 2006 and ...

Santander UK plc raised a claim for recovery of possession under which Mr Sajjad Soofi, the second respondent, was substituted as defender in place of his late mother. His wife Rumellag Soofi resided ...

Court wait times could rise to more than three years for the most serious cases, Holyrood has been told. Malcolm Graham, chief executive of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), told MSPs ...