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Millions of documents held by organisations including offshore law firm Appleby have been stolen in what has been dubbed the Paradise Papers leak. The firm said in a statement that its computers were hacked by an intruder “who deployed the tactics of a professional hacker and covered his/her track

Commercial disputes specialist Philip Sewell has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner, bringing 25 years’ experience to the firm’s commercial disputes and regulation division. Mr Sewell advises on contentious commercial matters, including insurance, professional negligence, shareholder di

An American woman who challenged a sheriff’s decision that a dispute with her former husband over the care of their child should be determined in the United States rather than in Scotland has successfully appealed against the ruling. The Sheriff Appeal Court held that the sheriff “erred in law�

Mhairi Richards QC Mhairi Richards QC received more in legal aid fees than any other advocate in 2016-17, the latest Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) figures show.

Scottish Legal News has learned that vulnerable adults are being put at a disadvantage because of severe delays in lodging guardianship orders in court due to a shortage of mental health officers. A guardianship order is sought where a person has no capacity and may be very vulnerable

Douglas Mill Just when you thought that good old Civic Scotland had got over the Parliament Building Fiasco, along came the Edinburgh Trams Farce. Another opportunity to display ludicrous amateur incompetence at public expense. Oh how the contractors laughed yet again. Years late. Many small busines

Sarah McWhirter Travelling the country is no problem for Scottish-borders born solicitor and keen hill runner Sarah McWhirter.

Only specialist legal software supplier with offices in all four countries of the UK LEAP, the world’s leading cloud software provider for small law firms, announces it has relocated its offices in Edinburgh to larger premises to accommodate a team which has expanded from seven to sixteen during t

A team from Shepherd and Wedderburn will be sleeping out in Festival Square on 3 November 2017 to raise money for the Rock Trust.Partners Patrick Bell and Fiona Buchanan, associates Peter Alderdice and Neil Campbell, solicitor Lucy Mulreany and business development executive Hazel Thomson will be s

Rollos Law LLP and well established Glenrothes based law firm Brady Legal have announced their merger that took effect on 1st November 2017. Combining highly skilled resources, the merged practice, trading as Rollos, will offer a comprehensive legal service for private and business clients.Ken Smit

A prisoner who is seeking to challenge a decision to the effect that he would not progress to the open estate but had yet to be granted permission to proceed has had a motion to allow a minute of amendment dismissed as “incompetent”. The petitioner was seeking to amend the petition to bring his

More work is needed to address judicial diversity and issues with recruitment that threaten the UK’s world-renowned legal systems, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned today. The committee states in a report today that It is deeply concerned about the dispute between the UK governm

Fern Mapp Digby Brown Solicitors has successfully settled all its civil claims following the Clutha helicopter tragedy.

Members of the Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) are to enjoy free contempt of court cover provided by senior members of the Faculty of Advocates as part of their membership. This means any GBA members who find themselves in possible personal contempt of court situations in the course of their professio

An Irish man who claimed his conviction for selling drugs was unfair as it was based on evidence obtained by police entrapment has had his application unanimously declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights, which concluded that the role of the police in the case had been essentially