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Pictured (clockwise): Tom Swan, Lauren McLeod, Elaine Hunter, Stuart Greenwood and Ben Pilbrow

The Law Society of Scotland’s Council is proposing to increase the cost of solicitors’ practising certificate (PC) fee by 2.3 per cent. It is the first increase in the fee in nine years and will mean the PC costs 20 per cent less in real terms compared to 10 years ago, the Law Society said. Soli

Graham Matthews Trainee solicitors in Scotland should receive a pay increase in 2018/19, according to recommendations made by the Law Society of Scotland.

The UK Supreme Court sat in Belfast for the first time this morning to hear Siobhan McLaughlin's challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent's Allowance.

A parent who challenged court orders which were imposed upon him after he subjected a retired head teacher to a 10-year campaign of harassment has had his appeal dismissed. The Sheriff Appeal Court upheld the interdicts and non-harassment orders imposed after rejecting the appellant’s claim that t

Janette Speed, partner and head of Shoosmiths Edinburgh office, welcomes Jim Gray (consultant for Watkins Jones) to Shoosmiths’ Spring Drinks Event held last night in its Saltire Court offices in Edinburgh.

The High Court in London has ruled that a coroner's "cab rank" policy of dealing with bodies on a first-come, first-served basis was unlawful, irrational and discriminatory. The protocol issued last October by Mary Hassell, senior coroner for inner north London, has now been struck down and quashed.

Lord Justice Singh The High Court has today ruled part of the UK government’s flagship surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, is unlawful – following a legal challenge from human rights campaigning organisation Liberty.

Stephen McGowan (left) with former president Andrew Lawrence, sales and operations director for Scotland at Molson Coors Stephen McGowan, partner and head of TLT's licensing team in Scotland, has been named president of the Benevolent Society of the Licensed Trade of Scotland (The BEN).

Is the law fair to asylum seekers? That is the question posed on the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Unreliable Evidence series. Host Clive Anderson asks his expert guests if the law makes it too hard for people to prove they have a legitimate claim to asylum.

Roseanna Cunningham Proposals to reduce plastic pollution through a ban on the manufacture and sale of plastic-stemmed cotton buds in Scotland have opened for public consultation.

Jamie Gardiner An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors.

Thursday, 10 May 2018 from 6pm at SSC Members’ Lounge, Edinburgh As we continue into a new era of technological advancement, with clients increasingly demanding tangible results for the money they are paying their lawyers, an ability to effectively and efficiently work with and lead a team of prof

Roddy Dunlop QC The Faculty of Advocates has responded to criticism by the Society of Solicitor Advocates (SSA) in relation to the Faculty’s submission to the Independent Review of the Regulation of Legal Services in Scotland (the Roberton Review).

Amanda Jones Amanda Jones, partner in Dentons' UK employment team, has been appointed chair of the Women and Girls in Sport Advisory Board.