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A stimulating and entertaining talk by Lady Wolffe to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) ended with a hope that such days could soon be consigned to history. Lady Wolffe said it was 110 years since the first IWD in New York, and the day was now celebrated by millions of people – w

Gillespie Macandrew has promoted charity and private client lawyer Lianne Lodge to partner.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has announced the appointment of associate Elisa Miller to its Inverness office. Ms Miller joins the firm from the Inverness office of Ledingham Chalmers LLP, which she joined in 2005.

DWF has announced a market capitalisation of £366 million ahead of its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. The offer price for the recently-incorporated DWF Group Limited has been revealed today as 122p per share.

Rising dementia rates have prompted calls for Scots to get their affairs in order as they enter old age, The Herald reports. The number of people with dementia is expected to rise by 50 per cent in the next two decades.

Burness Paull LLP and Brodies LLP have scored double wins for their intellectual property teams at an international awards ceremony. The Managing IP Awards saw Burness Paull named winners of the Scottish Patent Contentious Firm of the Year and also Scottish Copyright Firm of the Year award

In the second episode of Morton Fraser's podcast series, Stuck in the Middle, David Hossack a partner and accredited mediator chats with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the Justice Committee's report "I won't see you in court".

Former Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders broke Whitehall rules after leaving public service to join City law firm Linklaters last year, a watchdog complained. Ms Saunders, 58, whose tenure at the Crown Prosecution Service was controversial, failed to inform Whitehall officials that she

In Friday's edition of Scottish Legal News (8 March 2019) we mistakenly stated that Lady Wolffe authored the opinion in AP, Gordon Burns and Joseph Millbank v Lord Advocate. It was in fact authored by Lady Carmichael. We apologise for this error.

A senior judge has decided to sleep next to a small dairy farm to help resolve a dispute over the sound of cowbells throughout the night. Judge Johannes Nagorsen suggested that he and his colleagues spend a night listening to cows to help bring an end to the farm's long-running dispute with its neig

Three litigants who claimed that the introduction of a permission stage in judicial review procedure in Scotland was “incompatible” with human rights law because it meant that cases could be dismissed without an oral hearing have had their legal challenges dismissed. The three

A Northern Ireland woman has successfully appealed the decision of the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal to order a stay on her application for damages for the state’s failure to carry out a prompt investigation into the circumstances of her son’s death, in violation of Article 2 ECHR. Fi

A case can be made for allowing all prisoners to vote in elections in Scotland, including any future referendum, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government is proposing that only prisoners on short sentences should be given a vote. The current blanket ban has been held to be inc

Academics, advocates and solicitors to advise on approach to reviewing legal aid fees. Experts from across the legal profession have joined a Scottish government panel to advise on an evidence-based approach for a review of fee levels for legal aid services.

MacRoberts has announced the appointment of two female partners to its management board on International Women’s Day. Commercial dispute resolution partner Gillian Craig, who has been with MacRoberts since 2002, and construction partner Jennifer McKay, who joined the firm in 2001, ha