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Balfour and Manson has promoted two lawyers to associate: Scott Clair, a solicitor within the litigation team in Edinburgh, and Sophie Hamilton Pike, a family law team solicitor in Aberdeen. Mr Clair, who joined the firm as a trainee in 2015, specialises in resolving civil disputes for both pur

A member of the Faculty of Advocates is to be contributing editor for a portfolio of titles for The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia. Jacqueline Fordyce has been appointed to work on the volumes for criminal law, public international law and human rights.

Victims of the Nazis who fled Austria during the Third Reich have been given citizenship by the country's parliament. The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of hundreds of thousands of Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis will be able to apply for Austrian nationality.

Last weekend, the number of daily subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News broke through 7,000 on the back of record website traffic for August with 69,209 unique visitors accessing the website. The number of Twitter followers for Scottish Housing News, which was established in 20

A police officer who arrested and handcuffed a six-year-old black girl for misbehaving at school has been suspended pending an internal investigation, US media reports. Another child, aged eight years old, was also arrested by Orlando police officer Dennis Turner on the same day, but only the six-ye

A teenage girl has been arrested after she allegedly stole money from her parents in order to commit parricide. Florida girl Alyssa Michelle Hatcher, 17, is accused of stealing around $1,500 from her parents' bank account and spending $1,300 on two separate plots to have them murdered.

A lawyer who was seeking to challenge a decision by the Pensions Ombudsman to reject a complaint against a trustee over its handling of a sale of properties has been granted permission to bring an appeal despite missing the deadline by more than four months. A judge in the Court of Session 

The Law Society of Scotland has highlighted the importance of making the legal aid system easier to navigate for members of the public and solicitors, and reiterated concerns about the sustainability of funding for the service as part of the response to a Scottish government consultation on legal ai

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee is to consider new proposals on managing disputes over children when families break down. The committee is today launching a call for views to inform its scrutiny of the plans which are contained in the Scottish government’s new Children Bill.

The Scottish government's proposed new law on information sharing on named persons will not proceed. In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Deputy First Minister John Swinney also announced that the mandatory named person scheme for every child – enshrined in the Children And Young People

MSPs on Holyrood's Economy Committee have backed plans to limit ministers' access to statistics. At present, ministers and their staff can see market-sensitive data a day before it becomes public while they can see less sensitive publications five days before the public.

Robert Gordon University graduate Jamie McGill and University of Glasgow graduate Corinne Skelton have commenced their two-year traineeships with Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP. They will be assisting the team of solicitors and represent road users – motorcyclists, cyclists and

Proposals to change the way national and local elections are run in Scotland will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. The proposals in the Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill would extend the time between elections to the Scottish Parl

The number of judges at the General Court of the European Union will increase next week when the court welcomes seven additional judges. The swearing into office of the seven new judges next Thursday will mark the third and final stage of European judicial reforms approved in 2015.

Should period products be freely available by law across Scotland? That is the question being posed by Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee. The committee is considering a bill which would ensure everyone in Scotland who needs to use period products can obtain them free of cha