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Social Work staff from justice services and representatives from Police Scotland, NHS, Education, Housing and third sector gathered at the Concert Hall in Motherwell recently for the first in-person Justice Conference since 2019.

Executive search firm Saxton Bampfylde has announced that former chair of Burness Paull, Philip Rodney, has joined the company as a senior adviser.  A stalwart of the Scottish legal profession, he was chair of Burness Paull until 2018. Since then, he has taken on a range of cross-sector non-exe

The Law Society of Scotland has granted extended rights of audience to seven solicitors, with the new solicitor advocates introduced in a ceremony at the Court of Session.

A one-year-old puppy managed to make multiple online purchases in the video game Watch Dogs with its owner’s credit card.

The Scottish legal sector has welcomed 55 new solicitors to the profession at an admissions ceremony at the Signet Library in Edinburgh.

A Russian blogger who shared a bizarre dream involving Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been fined 30,000 rubles (£386). Ivan Losev, a 26-year-old in Siberia, wrote on Instagram about a dream where he was conscripted and then captured with his comrades by Ukrainian forces led by Zel

Martin Sinclair, a partner with Mackinnons Solicitors LLP, has been elected as the new president of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen for the coming year. Founded by Royal Charter in 1774, the society has played an important role in highlighting Aberdeen on the legal map of Scotland.

A mother was denied entry to a Christmas event in New York after facial recognition technology identified her as an employee of a law firm in a legal dispute with the owner of the venue. Kelly Conlon was chaperoning a group of Girl Scouts to see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City

Brewdog's boss has been left nearly £500,000 out of pocket after misleading customers over "solid gold" prizes in a recent promotion.

Politically and economically, 2022 was a tumultuous year. Despite an encouraging start, by the third quarter it was clear that Scotland’s property sector was being impacted by spiralling inflation, soaring energy costs and increasing interest rates, writes Barry McKeown. Yet, let me recall som

Edward Hunter, a partner in Burness Paull’s corporate finance team, has been recognised as a rising star in an industry benchmark. The Lawyer’s annual Hot 100 list, which it describes as “the crème de la crème of the legal world”, features “the most daring

The legal market is a highly competitive environment. Everyone in our beloved sector can witness it and the heat is constantly dialling up. A recent LexisNexis business development survey indicated that competition for new clients is the greatest concern that solicitors have. One of the most, if not

Pamela Rodgers has been promoted to partner at PBW Law. Ms Rodgers joined the firm in 2017 and her work includes civil and criminal litigation. She holds a master’s degree in international human rights law and is currently undertaking the diploma in forensic medical science at the Academy of F

I recently caught a very spirited radio discussion on the question of whether the Welsh Rugby Union should have banned its fans from singing the Tom Jones standard Delilah at matches. Welsh Women’s Aid took some credit for the decision having argued for years that the lyrics to the song could

Throughout this year’s LGBT+ History Month, Shepherd & Wedderburn has produced a series of articles to celebrate LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the production of film and cinema from ‘behind the lens’. The first article, written by Michelle Clement, focussed on the aesthe