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Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has posted record financial performance for the 12 months to 30 April 2025, with an eighth consecutive year of revenue and profit growth. Total revenues at the firm were up 11 per cent from £495.6 million to £5

A teenager who prepared to commit racially motivated acts of terrorism after being radicalised online has been sentenced to a total of 10 years' detention and eight years' extended licence period. The 17-year-old had planned to set fire to a Muslim centre in Greenock after befriending the Imam and m

A litigant in person has been criticised by a judge for relying on an AI chatbot that fabricated three legal precedents in a tax dispute. Marc Gunnarsson appealed after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sought to reclaim £12,918 in coronavirus self-employment support payments he had received. Repr

A group of tartan-clad legal professionals hit the streets to support a children’s charity.

The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on two judges and two deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, French judge Nicolas Guillou and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan, from Fiji, and Mame Mandiaye Niang, from Senegal, are the lat

A German neo-Nazi will begin serving an 18-month sentence in a women’s prison after using new gender recognition laws to register as a woman. Marla-Svenja Liebich, formerly, Sven Liebich, a far-right activist photographed at rallies in Nazi-style uniforms and armbands, was sentenced in July 20

Sheriff Alastair Carmichael, who uses technology that allows him to continue to work despite having motor neurone disease, has been profiled in a new article by The Daily Mail.  "The 15 men and women selected for the jury file into the courtroom to find the bewigged figure on the bench pro

Muslim men who skip Friday prayers face imprisonment for up to two years under new rules introduced in part of Malaysia. The harsh new penalties were introduced in the state of Terengganu – home to 1.1 million people – this week, The Guardian reports.

Terra Firma Chambers in conjunction with SOLAR (The Society of Local Authority Lawyers & Administrators in Scotland) will host a Common Good Conference at The Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close on Monday 29 September 2025. The event will be chaired by Terra Firma’s stable director, Ala

The Lawscot Foundation has increased its annual bursary. As the latest intake of Lawscot Foundation scholars are set to start their university studies in September, the charity’s trustees have agreed to provide existing and future Lawscot Foundation students with an annual bursary of £3,

Former shareholders of oil and gas company YPF have failed in a bid to enforce a $16.1 billion US court judgment against Argentina in the largest claim of its kind ever brought before the Irish courts. Ms Justice Eileen Roberts this week refused the High Court application for enforcement of the reco

University of Edinburgh alumnus Ben Kemp is to deliver the Opening of the Academic Year Alumni Lecture at Edinburgh Law School next month. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.

Gilson Gray has appointed Claire McNaught as legal director in its Glasgow private client team. She brings extensive experience from senior roles at Blackadders LLP and Fulton’s Solicitors, with expertise spanning wills and trusts, estate administration, and tax and succession planning.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) is celebrating the success of its first year sponsoring the Nairn Half Marathon.

Strathclyde Law School is offering scholarships to talented current or prospective mature students studying any taught course in the law school, whether full-time or part-time, undergraduate or postgraduate, who are in acute financial need. You must be 25 years or older at the point of the deadline