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Blackadders LLP has welcomed lawyers from across the globe to an international summer conference in Dundee. The Legus International network of law firms gathered in the city for its 2026 Annual Meeting from 25th to 27th June. The event was last held in Scotland in 2013.

St John’s High School pupil Fatima Arif is the recipient of the inaugural Edinburgh Angus Club Award for Law. The S6 student, who will begin the LLB at Aberdeen University this year, picked up the prestigious honour at the club’s annual awards ceremony held at Greenfield Academy in Dunde

Students at The Edinburgh Academy have taken part in a mock trial criminal with support from the Faculty of Advocates’ MiniTrials volunteers.

Glasgow-based Senior Solicitor Chloe Imrie, who works in Aberdein Considine’s debt recovery and banking litigation team, has been highly commended in the UK Credit Awards 2026. Ms Imrie went head to head with shortlisted colleagues Katie Macdonald and Sarah Clough in the Rising Star of the Yea

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The Scottish government has launched a consultation on sweeping sentencing and prison reforms aimed at reducing overcrowding in the prison estate, as ministers warn that inmate numbers have reached a critical level and are projected to rise further. Justice Secretary Neil Gray told Holyrood that fur

A comprehensive ban on glue traps comes into force next month. Glue traps do not distinguish between target and non-target animals, and any creature that crosses their path can become trapped, meaning other species such as songbirds can suffer prolonged unintended distress or death.

A senior JPMorgan Chase executive has been fired after being identified as the woman seen in a viral video emptying and apparently taking a commemorative New York Knicks-themed rubbish bin.

Scotland’s prisons are already breaching international standards on prisoners’ rights because of chronic overcrowding, the country’s chief prisons inspector has warned. Appearing before Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee yesterday, Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland S

A man who imported almost £4 million worth of high-branded counterfeit goods from the Far East and Turkey during a 17-month period has been sentenced. Ian Jones, 65, of Paisley, sold fake designer clothes from three industrial units in Glasgow and Lanarkshire between June 2021 and November 202

The Law Society of Scotland has reappointed insurance broker Lockton to administer and broker its master policy for professional indemnity insurance from 1 January 2027. The master policy covers all Scottish solicitors working in private practice, providing indemnity of up to £2 million for an

Michael Sheridan has been welcomed to andersonbain in a consultancy capacity. Mr Sheridan has spent the past 50 years running his own firm, Sheridans Solicitors. Alongside being secretary of the Scottish Law Agents Society, he is a tribunal judge and has run the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasg

Victoria Weldon, head of communications and engagement at the Scottish Sentencing Council, shares her experience of visiting the Female Offender Court at Glasgow. “You should be proud of yourself.”

Real Estate:Scotland, the new collective voice of the Scottish real estate industry, was formerly launched at Edinburgh’s W Hotel, part of St James quarter development, following the merger of the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF), Scottish Property Federation (SPF), and Investment Prope

Two people were arrested after police discovered suspected narcotics inside a bag labelled “definitely not a bag full of drugs”. A detective with the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office in the US state of Kentucky was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked in an employee area of a lo