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A defence lawyer has condemned the recent review into Scotland's legal aid system, suggesting its author lacks a “basic understanding of the realities of business”. Writing in The Journal, Ken Dalling, a member of the Law Society of Scotland Council, said Martyn Evans had made the m

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Irish High Court was justified in delaying the extradition to Poland of a man suspected of drug trafficking because of concerns about political interference with the Polish judiciary. The court found yesterday that domestic courts mu

Pictured (L-R): Back - Steven Drake, Colin Graham, Thomas Redpath, Stuart Mackie, Anneli Spence. Front - Lynsay McFarlane, Megan Sweeney, Chris Gardiner, Joanne Clancy, Lynne Macintyre Thorntons has made 10 promotions – two senior solicitors have been promoted to associates and nine solicitors

Scotland has a new Public Guardian and Accountant of Court with the appointment of Fiona Brown, who succeeds Sandra McDonald. Ms Brown has been Deputy Public Guardian and Accountant of Court (AoC) since 2015 having moved to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) after a career in the court service

A family from Paisley has secured damages of £247,000 after losing their mother to the asbestos disease mesothelioma. This is the first time in Scotland in which a case has been successfully pursued on behalf of someone who suffered from secondary exposure to asbestos from their spouse’s

The latest statistics from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) for the first quarter of 2018-19 show total personal insolvencies, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs), rose by 11.8 per cent relative to the first quarter of 2017-18. Bankruptcy awards are down 6.5 per c

A recent widely reported settled claim by a hospitality worker highlighted the controversy that continues to persist with Zero Hour Contracts (ZHC).  Kenny Scott considers the issues that often surround this form of employment arrangement and highlights why ZHC’s still have an import

The judgment in the English case of Owens v Owens was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs Owens sought a divorce from her husband on the basis of his behaviour. She said that his behaviour was such that she could not reasonably be expected to cohabit with him. Unusually, Mr Owens sought

More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed for possible miscarriages of justice amid concerns that evidence casting doubt on prosecution cases has not been fully disclosed. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has announced it will look at 306 convictions made between April 2016 and

The total raised for charity at the 2018 Tumbling Lassie Ball and Seminar has been confirmed as an incredible £27,300.

Plans to tighten the legal framework around Scottish limited partnerships have been supported in the main by the Faculty of Advocates. The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has proposed reform in the wake of evidence that limited partnerships, particularly

Top road traffic lawyer Graham Walker has been injured in a cycling accident in France, The Herald reports. Mr Walker, 60, of roadtrafficlaw.com, was in intensive care after he fell from his bike in a "freak accident" in which he hit a root on a woodland cylce path and landed on his head, a family f

Pictured (L-R): Claire Thornber, Nicola Gonnella and Claire McCracken. Weightmans has appointed three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.