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Pictured (L-R): Eric Gilligan, David Chalmers and new partner Anya Duncan at Stronachs’ Aberdeen headquarters Stronachs LLP has created one of the largest specialist employment teams in the north-east of Scotland with the appointment of Anya Duncan as a new partner.

Alison Sim Law firm HBJ Gateley has appointed Alison Sim a former legal director of oil and gas contractor Subsea 7, as a partner in its Aberdeen office.

Sir Stephen House Sir Stephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland has today announced he will leave his post by December 2015.

Willie McIntyre Several readers have contacted SLN to raise their concerns about the utterly inadequate legal aid rates of pay proposed for the new Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh.

A disabled woman who challenged a health board’s decision to cease providing homeopathic treatment has had a petition for judicial review dismissed.

MBM Commercial partner Cat MacLean  speaks to SLN in this week's Spotlight. What has been your best experience as a lawyer?

A challenge to legislation which will see a “named person” assigned to every child in Scotland has been refused by appeal judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session. Four charities and three individuals contended that provisions in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 passed

Neil Stevenson The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's(SLCC) staff have chosen The Yard as their staff charity for their 2015-16 year.

At the High Court in Glasgow today, Lady Rae, sentenced Alexander Pacteau, 21, to life imprisonment for his “brutal, senseless” and “motiveless" murder of Irish student Karen Buckley with a punishment part of 23 years after the accused pled guilty to the murder. On sentencing, Lady Rae said: �

Sarah Baillie Sarah Baillie of Anderson Strathern has joined a select group of only 12 other Law Society of Scotland accredited specialists in planning law.

Glen Gilson Newcomers Gilson Gray have built on a successful first year in business by recruiting a batch of lawyers from the commercial dispute resolution and insolvency teams of Morisons Solicitors LLP.

An employee of Harrods who was unfairly dismissed for enforcing health and safety guidelines against two staff members has been awarded £18,000 by an employment tribunal. The Times reports that John Perrett, who was a security guard at the store, was dismissed for gross misconduct after he stopped

Lord Jonathan Sumption A Supreme Court judge has said it could take 50 years to achieve gender equality within the UK's senior judiciary.

An Indian woman kept as a servant and paid as little as 11p an hour has been given nearly £184,000 in compensation in one of the UK’s first caste discrimination cases. Permila Tirkey, from the state of Bihar, was kept in domestic servitude and forced to work as a nanny and cleaner by her Hindu em