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Via Jack Kerr, a senior solicitor at Morton Fraser: Together with seven intrepid colleagues and an excitable cockapoo, I (just about) made it through the Edinburgh Kiltwalk yesterday, trudging 24 miles to raise funds for the amazing work done by SAMH [Scottish Association for Mental Health]. If any

Police officers responding to reports of machine-gun fire and screams arrived to find a children's birthday party in the middle of a foam pellet gun battle. Oliver Green, who was celebrating his eighth birthday, told BBC News he "put my hands up and dropped my gun" when officers arrived at

One third of Scottish solicitors who took part in a recent survey have been victims of violence or threatening behaviour in connection with their work.  The survey undertaken by the Law Society of Scotland, following an editorial in Scottish Legal News, of over 1,100 solicitors has revealed tha

The cost of a home in Scotland has soared to a record high after a summer market heatwave inflated prices in almost every part of the country. Research for Aberdein Considine’s Property Monitor report shows the average Scots property changed hands for a record £169,450 during Q2 2018 (Ap

The Scottish government has been criticised for its failure to implement elements of legislation intended to help victims, five years after it was enacted. Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Liam McArthur MSP chastised the Scottish government for “neglecting” its commitments to

A shipping magnate is launching another lawsuit against former RBS boss Fred Goodwin for as much as £3 billion, accusing him of using the firm's cash to help keep RBS afloat before its collapse. Taiwanese billionaire Nobu Su, 59, the chairman of Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT), has accused Mr Goodw

A man has been imprisoned for threatening that he would rise from the dead and kill a sheriff. Becklyn Mindjou, 27, was found guilty of various charges, among them breach of the peace, by Sheriff Gerard Bonnar at Glasgow Sheriff Court on March 29.

The number of claims lodged with the Employment Tribunal alleging discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has nearly doubled over the past year, The Times reports. There were 203 such claims in 2016/17 compared to 377 in 2017/18, which experts suggested was driven by changing social atti

This week the EU Parliament adopted a new revised draft of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Market. The proposed EU legislation includes some significant changes to the copyright regime and a couple of surprise additions introduced at the last minute by the EU Parliament, explains Ron Mosco

Congratulations to Emily Ross on winning the Shepherd & Wedderburn Prize for the best student in property law at Aberdeen University. Emily is pictured here being awarded the prize by Dr Susan Stokeld.

The public image of lawyers is all too often a distorted one: fat cats, divorced from the realities of life and absorbed with self-interest. As a consequence, certain aspects of legal life – and life at the bar is perhaps the clearest example – are often thought of as the preserve o

A campaign to have this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the world’s human rights defenders has received backing from the Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee. Peace Brigades International, a non-governmental organisation which supports human rights and p

A restaurant owner has been fined around £190 for putting up a sarcastic window sign asking people not to let their dogs pee on an outdoor flower pot. Duc's Place, a Vietnamese restaurant in the US state of Connecticut, put up a sign reading: "Attn: dog owners. This is a pay-per-pee flower pot

Morton Fraser has struck two deals to better position itself in the Scottish legal market. The firm has taken on the private client team from Addleshaw Goddard and has transferred its residential property team to Coulters, as it takes a minority stake in the estate agency.