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MML Law, the prominent Dundee solicitors’ firm, has announced a raft of new appointments and promotions. Jay Lawson, a solicitor in MML’s busy employment law practice, has been promoted to partner and Natalie Menzies, a lawyer in the firm’s expanding private client department, has

First Minister John Swinney said he is “dissatisfied” with the lack of progress on the private prosecution of footballer David Goodwillie. Mr Goodwillie was ruled – on a balance of probabilities – to have raped Denise Clair in a civil case in 2017.

Lady Hale has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, is a former judge who served as the first female president of the Supreme Court. In 2019 she announced the court’s judgement that the prorogation of Parliament was "unlawful, void and of no eff

The Law Society of Scotland’s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognised with an improved ranking in the Top 100 Inclusive UK Employers Index for 2024. The society has been ranked 76th in the 2024 list from the National Centre for Diversity, up from 84th place last year.

Ministers have welcomed parliamentary approval of three new proposed commissioners to the Scottish Land Commission (SLC). Ministers selected Dr Lucy Beattie and Dr Calum MacLeod as land commissioners and Robert Black as tenant farming commissioner at the Scottish Land Commission, following their rec

Legislation to strengthen tenants’ rights and prevent homelessness has passed stage 1 in the Scottish Parliament. The Housing (Scotland) Bill aims to tackle poverty across Scotland by improving the renting experience for tenants, through a range of new rights and a system of rent controls, in

The former head of the Scottish Muslim Police Association (SMPA) has been ordered to repay £8,000 in compensation to the organisation after being convicted of embezzlement. Asma Ali, 47, of Glasgow, stole that sum from the SMPA and used the money to pay for flights and rail travel to London as

A stowaway has managed to fly from New York to Paris without a boarding pass. The woman, a Russian passport holder somewhere between 55 and 60 years old, is awaiting deportation to the United States following her arrival in France without a visa, CNN reports.

On 27 November the Sheriff Appeal Court held that it is a necessary condition for there to be an obligation that two persons are party to it, and so where there is no debtor, there is no debt. In Wright v Wright EDI-A337-23, the pursuer sought to call up a standard security granted by the defender f

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel

The Pope's surgeon has been charged with fraud in connection with allegedly fake records of operations he never performed. Sergio Alfieri, who successfully operated on Pope Francis twice, in 2021 and 2023, lied about performing surgeries 29 times, prosecutors claim.

The Law Society of Scotland has commissioned a new research project to ensure it can best support smaller firms and the essential services they provide. Independent research company Taylor McKenzie will be contacting solicitors working in smaller firms, ranging from sole practitioners to firms emplo

Tributes were paid to the "impossible but fabulous" Ethel Houston to celebrate the 75th anniversary of her becoming the first female partner in a Scottish law firm. Ethel, who would have been 100 this year, became a partner at Balfour and Manson in 1949 – and her life and achievements were cel

Aberdein Considine has opened an office in Manchester’s Spinningfields as it embarks on a UK-wide expansion of its commercial property business. The firm, founded in 1981 in Aberdeen, has 21 offices across Scotland and the north of England.

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced record turnover and increased profits in its latest set of figures lodged at Companies House. Turnover amounted to £19.575 million (an increase of 6.9 per cent), with profits of £6.371m, representing a 16.9 per cent uplift on the 2022/2023 result.