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The Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF) has announced a new £3.9 million grants programme that will support free legal advice organisations in Scotland. This is the first programme in the UK that redistributes unclaimed class action funds and is based on a grant-making strategy designed to ens
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Westwater Advocates has welcomed Linzi McQuade to the stable. Ms McQuade called to the bar in 2024 and, having established a busy practice in both criminal and civil work with Optimum Advocates, is now looking to concentrate on civil work.
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Sam Jones has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn and will be based in the firm’s Aberdeen office.
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Thorntons has appointed two new construction law partners in Aberdeen. Jennifer Young and Sarah Stuart join from Ledingham Chalmers, where Ms Young has been both chair and managing partner and Ms Stuart has been a partner for almost 20 years.
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Alan Roughead has joined Kerr Stirling as a partner. Mr Roughead joins the firm from Thorntons, where he was a partner in the firm's private client team.
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MFMac is strengthening its licensing team with the arrival of director Lynn Simpson. Ms Simpson joins from TLT LLP and brings specialism across the full range of licensable activities, such as alcohol, short-term letting, and gambling licence applications. With 17 years’ experience advising re
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Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has strengthened its Inverness office with two experienced solicitors returning after two years. The firm welcomes back senior associate Alison Reid and legal director Yasmin Myles as they return to WJM.
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Dr Eddy Wifa and Dr Mitchell Lennan have both been appointed as co-directors of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL). Dr Wifa is a senior lecturer (energy law) at the School of Law, which he joined in 2020 following the completion of his PhD in Marine Renewable Energy Health a
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The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has obtained a four-figure settlement for a client over faulty roof repairs. Prior to ALP’s engagement in the matter, the client’s roof had been damaged and encroached upon by works commissioned by a third-party. Lead adviser Robert Johnson and the team at
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Lady Dorrian is to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of St Andrews at the university's winter graduation tomorrow. The Class of 2025 students will celebrate gaining both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, with graduands from 81 countries including Namibia, the Netherlands, Ne
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The last revolution in legal education was not digital but electrical. For a time, the lecture halls of Edinburgh and Glasgow stood half-in, half-out of the new century: stone stairwells lit by bare bulbs, while seminar rooms still relied on the yellow comfort of gaslight. No one doubted that electr
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Legal academics were among the recipients of Royal Society of Edinburgh medals awarded at a ceremony held this week.
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The Law Society of Scotland is seeking urgent clarification from the Scottish government on why legal aid has again been ignored in the final budget before this year’s Holyrood election. Finance Secretary Shona Robinson announced the 2026-27 budget in the Scottish Parliament on 13 January 2026
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The Scottish government is pausing it’s proposed changes to legal aid for adults with legal incapacity (AWI) cases, following an intervention by Govan Law Centre. Last month, GLC wrote to the Holyrood's Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee to recommend rejection of a draft Scottish statut
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The Law Society of Scotland has warned that proposed changes to legal aid fees for cases related to adults with incapacity (AWI) would further exacerbate the shortage of solicitors for such work. The warning is contained in a submission by the Law Society on potential changes to legal aid regulation
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Laura Simpson and Christine McKellar of Govan Law Centre raise the alarm over proposed changes to legal aid for adults with incapacity in Scotland. It is no secret that Scotland’s legal aid system is in urgent need of reform. With the increase in legal aid deserts caused by an ever-diminishing
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Tony Lenehan KC remains the top earner of legal aid fees, new figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board detailing gross earnings show. In 2024-25, Mr Lenehan’s fees were £490,000, an increase of £40,000, or nine per cent, on the previous year. Donald Findlay KC rose from third to s
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A high-tech facial recognition system introduced by the mayor of São Paulo has led to his own sister's identification and arrest for an alleged crime. The introduction of the "Smart Sampa" system was one of the key policy achievements of Ricardo Nunes' administration, which has run the city s
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Italy's most famous social media influencer has been acquitted in a fraud trial relating to a Christmas cake and Easter egg scandal. Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence for Chiara Ferragni, who has more than 28 million followers on Instagram, following "pandorogate".
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The US Department of War has demanded that a Canadian sex shop stop accepting orders from US soldiers stationed in Bahrain after a butt plug order was rejected by the kingdom. Grace Bennett and Katie Aitken, co-founders of Toronto-based Bonjibon, say they have proudly framed two official US governme
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A pensioner who taught himself the law to defend the length of grass in his garden has won a five-year battle against local officials. Canadian man Wolf Ruck, 79, told CTV News that he studied law at a postgraduate level in order to pursue his legal action over rules restricting the length of grass
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Two prisoners have been convicted of running a sophisticated telephone scam from behind bars which netted nearly half a million dollars from dozens of victims. Joey Amour Jackson and Lance Riddle – also known as "Apeshit" and "C-Port" – masterminded the scheme while locked up in the US s
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