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Glasgow firm Miller Samuel Hill Brown LLP (MSHB) has appointed Marie Macdonald as its new chairman, succeeding founding partner, Michael Samuel, who continues as a consultant. Ms Macdonald becomes the first woman to chair MSHB, one of Scotland’s longest-established legal practices.

Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court of Justice of the European Union should limit the scope of the dereferencing that search engine operators are required to carry out to the EU. By decision of 21 May 2015, the President of the French Commission nationale de l’informatique et des

At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Lord Arthurson sentenced a 17-year-old girl to detention for life with a punishment part of 16 years after the accused was found guilty of the murder of 18-year-old Connor Cowper. On sentencing, Lord Arthurson made the statement below in court. At some time

President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale has said in a rare political comment that austerity has made life more difficult for the poor. In a speech delivered last month at the Isle of Man Law Society, but only published yesterday, the judge said: “While some families are fighting for legal rec

Chartered legal executives in England and Wales are pushing to be recognised as lawyers on par with solicitors and barristers as part of any post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the European Union. The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has argued the lack of recognition for legal

The Welsh government has been accused by opposition parties of breaching devolution legislation by appointing its independent legal adviser as its Brexit minster. Jeremy Miles, Assembly Member for Neath, will continue in the role of Counsel General for Wales, which he has held since November 2017, a

A new exhibition will give an insight into the history of some of Scotland's most famous criminals, the Press and Journal reports. Mugshots from the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives dating from the nineteenth century will be displayed as part of the crime writing festival Granite Noir.

A man caught on camera licking the doorbell outside a family home for three hours in the dead of night has been charged with criminal offences. Roberto Daniel Arroyo, 33, was filmed leaning his head against the front door intercom and licking the doorbell from different angles for three hours.

A man found guilty of rape who claimed that the evidence of the complainer’s distress, which was exhibited more than a day after the incident, was “too remote” to corroborate her account of lack of consent because she did not show any signs of distress in the intervening period has

Anderson Strathern has launched a commercially focused Brexit Group with director Neil Amner, former president of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and current board member of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, at its helm. The law firm was the first in Scotland to launch a dedicated Brexit unit in July 2016

Harper Macleod has recruited Fiona Neilson, one of the Highlands' best known corporate and commercial lawyers, as a partner in its Inverness office. Ms Neilson, for many years a partner at Ledingham Chalmers, has joined the team advising businesses and organisations of all sizes on all of their corp

Specialist law firm Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP (RTALS), which provides legal services as Motorcycle Law Scotland, Cycle Law Scotland and Pedestrian Law Scotland, has further consolidated its operations in the West of Scotland with a key new hire and a new office in Glasgow. The company

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An immigration ‘cliff edge’ would be a real problem for the many sectors which currently rely on large numbers of EU migrant workers. Transitional arrangements are essential to ensure ‘business as usual’ is possible for many of our clients post-Brexit, writes Steven Dunn 

Donald Findlay QC has narrated an audio book on the life of Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, The Herald reports. Manuel was executed in 1958 at the age of 31 following one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history and a killing spree that saw at least eight people die.