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CMS has announced it will double this year’s number of Scottish bursaries to support two aspiring law students. As part of an annual UK-wide initiative, the firm awards £2,500 each year to a high-performing Scottish state school pupil from an economically disadvantaged background while t

As plans for legal apprenticeships gain steam, Scottish Legal News is asking readers whether they think apprenticeships ought to be introduced in Scotland as an alternative route to qualification as a solicitor. Holyrood’s Justice Committee has called for the introduction of legal ap

Digby Brown Solicitors has said it has heard from twice as many alleged survivors of child sexual abuse since the three-year limitation period on claims for damages was lifted last year. The Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017, which was commenced last October, abolished a long-standing

Lord Wilson, a justice of the Supreme Court, returned to Northwestern University in Chicago this week to urge US law students to "strive tirelessly" to secure the protection and development of human rights. His speech, titled Our Human Rights: A Joint Effort?, looked at the "historical development"

Complainants in rape cases in some parts of England are being asked to hand over massive amounts of personal information in order to progress police investigations into their allegations, The Guardian reports. Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt, lead for adult sexual offences at the National Polic

An intriguing character from Scotland’s legal past will be brought to life for visitors to the Faculty of Advocates this weekend on Doors Open Day. A small exhibition about Peter Williamson, also known as "Indian Peter", is to be a feature of a tour of the Advocates Library as it welcomes the

The 32nd annual James Wood Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jo Shaw LLD FRSE AcSS, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, on the topic “Integration, Dis-integration and Citizenship in a Troubled European Union”. The lecture will examine the impa

Staff at Turcan Connell have raised over £8,000 for their nominated charity of the year, Down's Syndrome Scotland, at a charity hockey tournament.

A restaurant is under investigation over its practice of giving lobsters marijuana to relax them before they're killed and cooked. Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound owner, Charlotte Gill, who is a licensed medical marijuana giver in Maine, cannot currently serve her "smoked" lobster mea

Pinsent Masons has signed a lease for 25,000 sq ft of prime office space in Edinburgh’s Capital Square development. The project being developed by BAM Properties, in partnership with Hermes Investment Management, is under construction in the Exchange business district.

As plans for legal apprenticeships gain steam, Scottish Legal News is asking readers whether they think apprenticeships ought to be introduced in Scotland as an alternative route to qualification as a solicitor. Holyrood’s Justice Committee has called for the introduction of legal ap

A former Aberdeen lawyer has been struck off the roll of solicitors for committing numerous breaches. Ian James McDougall, who had run his own firm of McDougall & Co, was suspended in June 2015 and was sequestrated in November of that year.

Recorded crime in Scotland has seen a slight increase in the past year but is still at its second lowest level in more than 40 years. There were 244,504 crimes recorded by the police in Scotland in 2017-18. This is the second lowest level of recorded crime since 1974.

The recent English case of Williams Tarr Construction Limited v Anthony Roylance Limited and Anthony Roylance [2018] EWHC 23 highlights the importance of taking time at the commencement of a project to set out the basis on which parties intend to contract with each other, write David Arnott and Sara