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Benjamin Bestgen, the author of our jurisprudential primer series, reflects on a year of his articles – from their inception in far-flung New Zealand to their conclusion in besieged Jersey. Following Kapil Summan’s bonus primer, I am taking a look back at one full year of these little ju

Back in March 2020, when the world turned upside down, whilst we started panic buying toilet roll, washing our hands singing Happy Birthday, doing Zoom pub quizzes and our daily Joe Wicks workouts, another strange phenomenon materialised: Spaces for People. The Scottish government and Sustrans initi

An 81-year-old retired judge who made history as the first black man appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia has received an apology after being mistaken for a criminal suspect and put in handcuffs. Mr Justice Selwyn Romilly was briefly detained by police officers responding to reports of

A Scottish university student, who is on track to achieve her ambitions of becoming a lawyer after being awarded a Lawscot Foundation bursary, hopes more young people will be given the same opportunity. Chloe Fraser, a second year law student at the University of Edinburgh, shared her story as the L

Lawyers Janet McIntyre and Colin Brown have been elected president and vice president respectively of the Fife Chamber of Commerce. Ms McIntyre, a commercial property partner at Thorntons, was elected at the group’s AGM yesterday.

A student from the Aberdeen Law Project has helped a client whose stepfather died intestate to find an heir. Stepchildren do not inherit on intestacy in Scotland which meant that, as no known relatives could be identified, the Crown had a right to the stepfather’s estate.

When Sally-Anne Anderson made a comeback at Aberdein Considine in 2016 it was to take up partnership after three years as an associate at Harper Macleod. Having worked at the Aberdeen-headquartered business earlier in her career, the employment specialist decided to return as the time felt right to

Austin Lafferty has been elected dean of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.

A woman who impersonated her teenage daughter to sit through an entire day of school has been arrested. Casey Garcia, 30, said she infiltrated her 13-year-old daughter's middle school in Texas to make a point about school security.

When Nicola Rylatt lost her husband Chris to suicide in 2017 it made her reassess her work priorities. The couple had been married for a year and, having begun her career as an asylum and immigration lawyer before moving to Swiss-based NGO Shelter Centre, Ms Rylatt was working in the Geneva office o

Bad faith actors are making crypto-political arguments in the legal arena, the Lord Chancellor has suggested. In a speech delivered at a conference on constitutional reform at University College London, Robert Buckland QC MP suggested the concept of the 'rule of law' was being abused for political e

Alastair Milne Balfour and Manson partner Alastair Milne retires today after almost 35 years in the legal profession.

A group of alleged fraudsters who dressed up as cardinals in order to dupe people out of millions of euros have been caught in an undercover police operation that saw officers themselves disguised – as priests. The accused were said to have tricked victims into meetings at the pontifical Grego

A man who was on his deathbed with necrotizing fasciitis and who later developed alcoholism has overcome his challenges to graduate from Abertay University with an LLB. William Murphy, 52, from Cowdenbeath, left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications. He thereafter began a 25-year career in

Gilson Gray has appointed two solicitors in its Dundee office. Adam Smith has been appointed as a solicitor within the commercial real estate team to support clients in terms of leasing, development, security and property investments.