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Brodies LLP chairman, Christine O’Neill has been re-elected to serve a third consecutive term in the role. Partners voted unanimously for Ms O'Neill, who was first elected to the position of chairman in 2013, to continue to guide the firm through the next three years.

Oil and gas lawyer Martin Ewan has been appointed president of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. The society promotes legal professional expertise in Aberdeen and the north east and its origins can be traced back to the 16th century. Its members include lawyers, members of the judiciary, su

EU law expert Professor Tobias Lock has joined Maynooth University Department of Law from Edinburgh Law School. At Edinburgh, Professor Lock was lecturer and then senior lecturer in EU law from 2013-18, having previously lectured at University College London, the University of Surrey and the Univers

The Scottish woman who became the UK's first female solicitor is being honoured by her alma mater. Madge Easton Anderson was a graduate of Glasgow University who joined the profession in 1920.

Solicitors are to be honoured for their contribution to society as part of the Law Society of Scotland's 70th anniversary celebrations. The society is inviting nominations for honorary membership for outstanding service for the public good by a Scottish solicitor.

“No negligence where the doctors disagree” used to be the approach of the courts to expert evidence in medical cases.

The US Navy has finally abandoned an archaic practice of locking misbehaving sailors up with only bread and water to eat. The punishment was scrapped by the British Navy in 1891 but has only now come to an end in the US.

A woman who was injured in a road traffic accident when a car she was travelling in was struck by a police van is suing Police Scotland for damages. Anji Mannas claims that although the physical injuries she sustained were “modest”, she suffered “severe and continuing psy

Dr Greg Gordon of Aberdeen University pays tribute to Professor David Lessels, who passed away on 28 December 2018. Prior to his retirement in 2013, David spent 40 years as a lecturer and senior lecturer within the Law School. Upon retirement, he was appointed an honorary professor, a tribute which

Before the festive break, Rachael Kelsey did her first update on the implications of Brexit for family law, giving a general overview of where we are with the three most likely political outcomes. Things are moving apace and there was a significant, if under the radar, development on 28th

A consultation on charity law setting out options to change the current regulatory system in Scotland has been launched by the Scottish government. Options in the consultation include:

Corporate law firm Rooney Nimmo has appointed Grant Docherty as a partner in its UK operations. He will be responsible for running the banking team at the firm and will be based in Edinburgh. Mr Docherty has nearly three decades of banking sector law experience having previously served as partner an

Police Scotland is failing to refer suspects to prosecutors timeously, according to figures obtained by Scottish Labour. Between 2015/16 and 2017/18 there has been around a 20 per cent increase in the number of cases that are not prosecuted because they are time barred, data supplied

Judges are the main source of bullying in the legal profession while sexual harassment and propositioning remain a problem, a survey for The Times has revealed. More than half of 1,500 barristers surveyed by the Bar Council thought there was still a problem with bullying and older male barristers se

Harper Macleod is helping to bring digital education opportunities to African schoolchildren by supporting the work of The Turing Trust. The firm has donated IT equipment to the charity, set up by relatives of Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence,