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Susie Lind, partner in the Edinburgh office of international law firm CMS, has been appointed as chair of Scottish Renewables. Ms Lind – who joined the law firm last November – succeeds Adam Morrison, the UK country manager for Ocean Winds, who served in the role from 2021.

AI’s rapid advance could transform – or even eclipse – core aspects of legal and dispute resolution work, warns John Sturrock KC. The founder of a site where AI models communicate with one another compared them to a “new species that is on planet Earth that is now smarter tha

As AI enters complaints handling, gains in speed and insight must be balanced against fairness, transparency and the human touch, writes Vicky Crichton. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organisations interact with the people they serve. That’s certainly true in the world of com

BTO has welcomed Donna Strong as a new partner in the firm’s real estate team, based in its Glasgow office. This senior hire follows the appointment of partner John Dunlop in the firm’s Edinburgh office last year, further strengthening BTO’s growing real estate capability.

When people and clients talk of the importance of lawyers who bring shop floor experience to their work, they do not come much truer than those of Qasim Ali. Growing up working in his parents’ convenience store in central Scotland means he understands the dedication that it takes to run a succ

There is to be a statutory public inquiry examining Scotland’s response to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) chaired by Professor Alexis Jay. In a statement to Holyrood, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth confirmed the Scottish government’s intention to establish a ta

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million for children's privacy failures. It said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has ordered the removal of a man convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour towards an 11-year-old boy from the sex offenders’ register after determining that his behaviour was motivated by racism, but refused a conjoined challenge to placement on the register by a

A solicitor in Guernsey who studied law in Scotland has been convicted of sexually assaulting two women by touching them on the buttocks during a night out in St Peter Port. The Royal Court found Steven Balmer, 39, a senior associate at Carey Olsen, guilty of two counts of sexual assault arising fro

Freeths has strengthened its commercial practice in Scotland with the appointment of partner Richard Lockhart to its Glasgow office. Mr Lockhart, who joins from Burness Paull, specialises in programme development, government policy implementation, governance, procurement, funding and commercial advi

The Scottish government is considering whether the age at which young people may marry or register a civil partnership should be raised from 16 years old to 18. Writing for Scottish Legal News, Professor Elaine E Sutherland argues that how Scots law addressed the capacity and responsibility of child

An actress who provided the face of Albania's AI government minister is suing over the alleged misuse of her image. Albania made global headlines last year after unveiling an AI chatbot called "Diella" which it said had joined the government as minister of state for artificial intelligence.

The "sale of solicitors' practices to investment companies" was a danger posed by the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 a seminar in Glasgow heard yesterday. The seminar, 'Key Changes, Implications and Next Steps' of the Act, and was held at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow

The Law Society of Scotland is looking for the brightest in-house talent as it seeks nominations for its annual competition, the In-house Rising Star Award. Now in its 14th year, the competition for newly qualified solicitors and trainees is looking for entrants who have made a considerable contribu