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Members of Westwater Advocates have been awarded an impressive 23 individual recommendations in 8 categories in the newly published 2019 edition of the Chambers Directory and a ...

Watermans Legal has appointed Jacquie Sandison as property sales consultant. Ms Sandison will be based in the firm’s Leith office and has over two decades of experience ...

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has today published a new report into models of incorporating international human rights standards into law, authored by Dr Katie Boyle, associate ...

Referring to the upcoming consultation on smacking, a recent newspaper headline declared: “Scots parents will face jail for smacking their children under new laws unveiled at Holyrood.” ...

A solicitor who failed to pay advocates thousands of pounds in legal aid money has been struck off the roll. Jeremy Cram, 38, retained sums paid to ...

A cheesemaker's produce has been ruled safe to eat by a judge. Humphrey Errington, 74, previously succeeded in a legal case against South Lanarkshire Council, which wanted his ...

The Co-op has announced a partnership with McClure Solicitors, which will see the law firm offer Co-op clients fixed fee prices, as well as a guarantee to ...

British broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has reached a confidential settlement with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over an abandoned investigation into sex abuse allegations against him. Mr Gambaccini was arrested in 2013 ...

Terra Firma Chambers will host its 9th Annual Local Government Conference on Wednesday 28th November 2018, in Edinburgh. Chaired by James Findlay QC, this half-day conference will ...

Netflix is facing a lawsuit from The Satanic Temple over its alleged use of a copyrighted design of an evil deity. The Satanist organisation claims that the ...

A couple who are suing the former owners of their home for damages over an alleged misrepresentation that they had no experience of flooding at the property ...

Holyrood’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee is launching a call for views on proposed changes that would remove the defence of "reasonable chastisement" from Scots law. Without ...

This week the Supreme Court handed down a judgement in the case of Dooneen v Mond, upholding the judgments of the Inner House and the Lord Ordinary ...

The Edinburgh office of Shoosmiths has announced three new appointments within its real estate, litigation and employment teams. With 18 years of legal expertise in real estate ...

Axiom Advocates is delighted to announce another outstanding set of rankings in the Chambers UK Bar Guide. Axiom members have obtained a substantial 118 individual rankings in the 2019 ...