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Balfour and Manson has promoted three lawyers to senior associate. James Hyams, Carolyn Jackson, and Peter Littlefair took up their new positions – in the private client, clinical negligence, and personal injury teams respectively – on 1 July.Mr Hyams started his traineeship with the fir

Gilson Gray has struck a deal with legal and professional services specialist Knights to acquire Lincoln-based Home Property Lawyers (HPL) Ltd. HPL is a residential conveyancing specialist with 65 staff, all of whom have been retained as part of the deal, including current head of HPL, Gary Tyman.

Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle has offered his thoughts on the future of the justice system in a new era of technology following the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview with the Judicial Office for Scotland following his recent succession to senior sheriff principal, the 69-year-old spoke of his experi

Dentons has held an event on the issues facing female advocates at the commercial bar in Scotland.

Burges Salmon has advised Cytomos Limited on its £1.6 million funding from a trio of investors to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS). The fundraising was led by existing investor Archangels with participation fr

One sunny weekday recently, a team of eager BTO volunteers donned their orange safety vests and rolled up their sleeves to help out at the Cyrenians’ depot in Leith. Cyrenians is a charity aimed at tackling the causes and consequences of homelessness.

A Vietnamese national who was refused permission to appeal his asylum case to the Upper Tribunal had had that decision reversed after bringing a judicial review petition in the Outer House of the Court of Session.  Petitioner HHP, a victim of human trafficking, argued that the First-tier Tribun

One year after the Pegasus Project revelations, the lack of a global moratorium on the sale of spyware is allowing the surveillance industry to continue unchecked, Amnesty International warned today. The Pegasus Project uncovered how governments worldwide were using NSO Group’s invasive Pegasu

The recent case of Free Miles v The Royal Veterinary College, featuring Dorothy the turkey, shares striking similarities to one of my early employment tribunal cases. In that memorable case, the claimant had “rescued” (we said “stolen”) a duck (unnamed) from her employer beca

Social work students have been learning how to support crime victims and witnesses in an innovative pilot project at the heart of Scotland’s courts.

The Ethiopian authorities must urgently launch an impartial investigation into the summary killing of over 400 Amhara residents of Tole Kebele in Oromia region on 18 June, Amnesty International said today. Hundreds of people were killed and scores injured in an attack that survivors and victims&rsqu

Staff from Lindsays swapped legal papers for plant pots during a visit to an Edinburgh garden project set up to help people with mental health problems.

A barrister who tweeted criticism of LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall’s position on trans rights suffered unlawful discrimination and was victimised, according to an employment tribunal. Allison Bailey, a founder of the gender-critical group LGB Alliance, sued Garden Court Chambers (GCC) and Stonewall

A woman who claimed to have suffered long-term injuries after falling down a manhole has been awarded £4,200 in solatium after the majority of her personal injury claim was refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. Sharon Cossey, the pursuer, argued that she had been heavily restrict

The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty International has said in a new report. Since they took control of the country in August 2021, the Taliban have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education