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Glasgow-based Optimum Advocates is offering a summer placement for any interested law students. While stables were traditionally based in Edinburgh, the Mackinnon Stable, as Optimum was formally known, took the bold move in 2007 to establish the first and only stable in the west of Scotland, while r

A man who challenged his dismissal by an NHS trust for stalking and harassment, on the basis it had availed itself of private material including WhatsApp data, has had his application unanimously declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerned George Garamukanwa&rsquo

The Lord President, Lord Carloway is the keynote speaker at an annual legal conference on the voice of the child in adoption and fostering. Hearing the child in adoption and fostering will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Dundee on Friday 14 June 2019.

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has installed public access defibrillator (PADs) in all of the SCTS buildings across Scotland. All of the PADs have been registered with the Scottish Ambulance Service and there have to date been three occasions when members of the public have been di

Dundee University has been ranked fourth for law in the Guardian University league tables 2020. Cambridge University topped the table, followed by Oxford and UCL.

Glasgow School of Art has failed to claim back £500,000 in tax after a court ruled that a door between two buildings could not be classified as a fire exit. The art school, whose world-famous Mackintosh Building has burned down twice in four years, had wrongly reclaimed VAT on the door.

Thorntons has opened a dedicated office in Glasgow to service growing demand.

A solicitor who claimed that a series of complaints made against her should have been rejected as “totally without merit” or “vexatious” has successfully appealed against decisions by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to remit the claims to the Law Society of

Vulnerable women will benefit from reforms which will encourage judges to consider community sentences above "ineffective" short prison sentences of 12 months or less, according to the Scottish government.Around 90 per cent of women sent to prison are given a custodial sentence of a year or less and

A series of recommendations to improve the way sexual offences are prosecuted in Scotland and across the UK has been drawn up by JUSTICE, the law reform and human rights group. Its report calls for more sexual assault referral centres to be created in Scotland, and for much greater use of inter

Legal and police figures have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Professor Hector MacQueen FBA FRSE, of the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to legal scholarship.

Criminal barristers have voted by a huge majority for a national walkout in July 1 in protest at paltry fees in an action that will bring the justice system to its knees for a day. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) ballot results showed that only 139, or 5.1 per cent of respondents, voted against a

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCCW) has appointed Callum McDonald as its new managing partner amid a period of growth for the company. Mr McDonald's appointment comes following the retirement of Keith Allan, who has amassed almost 40 years’ service with the firm, including eight years

When a legal matter involves a child, there is a fine line between protecting the child and excluding them from something which directly impacts them, writes Jennifer Maciver. Recent announcements from the Scottish government suggest that more will be done in this often difficult situation. Minister

Employment law, HR and health & safety specialist, Law At Work (LAW), has recorded a sharp increase in employment claims since fees were abolished in July 2017. The firm saw a 25 per cent rise in claims in 2018 compared with the previous year when fees were overturned, and an increase of 120 per