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Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported a strong year for deals activity, with a 41 per cent rise in the number of completed deals and a 12 per cent increase in the overall value of transactions. The team, whose clients include banks, funds, financial ins

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf is to chair a dedicated task force to improve victims and complainers' experiences of the justice system. The task force aims to ensure complainers' voices are heard, to streamline their journey through the criminal justice system, and to provide wide-ranging support a

First year law students at Aberdeen University were welcomed with a dinner held in the impressive Elphinstone Hall on Friday. Aberdeen Law School tweeted: Matriculation Dinner for our new first years! Thanks to Paul Dickson of Slaughter & May for speaking (and sponsoring). Our M&aacut

Last month advocate Robert Sutherland completed a trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro as part of a team raising money for the Scottish children’s charity Children 1st. Here he describes what this involved. Mount Kilimanjaro is 5,895m (19,341ft) high and is the largest f

On Wednesday 3 October the Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) held its 2018 annual lecture, delivered by Sir Anthony Seldon and sponsored by CMS. ALP hosted a capacity audience for the address of Sir Anthony Seldon, award-winning political author, contemporary historian and educator.

A local authority is under pressure to reveal the full cost of a court battle it fought against a cheesemaker. South Lanarkshire Council's legal department has admitted it spent almost £600,000 in the case against Errington Cheese and it is thought the final bill will exceed £1 million a

Agents for Britain’s security service are authorised to commit serious crimes, on British soil, without informing prosecutors, under a secretive MI5 policy, a court has been told. Reprieve, Privacy International, the Pat Finucane Centre and the Committee on the Administration of Justice a

Licensing chiefs are calling for answers from the Scottish government after it sent out legal papers riddled with errors to trade bodies. Official accreditation documents, which were described as being “full of errors in terms of basics in law”, were sent out on September 26, detailing t

Campaigners against Brexit have announced their intention to sue the Electoral Commission unless it reopens an investigation into a £435,000 donation to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham QC, sent a formal pre-action letter to the electoral wat

Between July and September 2018, average selling prices in east central Scotland rose by 6.2 per cent to £250,991 compared to the same period last year. In Edinburgh, the average selling price rose by 7.8 per cent to £272,241. As with last month, two-bedroom flats in Leith, the Shore and

The Court of Appeal has ruled that thousands of people may have been unlawfully held in immigration removal centres in recent years. In a case brought by five asylum seekers who were challenging the provisions of the Dublin III regulations, judges ruled that detained people could not be held indefin

A new trailer for On the Basis of Sex, an upcoming drama about the life of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been released ahead of its cinema début.

A man has become the first person to be jailed under new modern slavery laws after he used children in a "county lines" operation. Zakaria Mohammed, 21, a drug dealer, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court for his drug operation which he ran between Birmingham and Lincoln

One of the largest law firms in Ireland, Matheson, has launched an app that advises companies on what to do if they are raided as part of a white-collar crime investigation, The Irish Times reports. Dawn Raid explains to companies how to prepare for raids by the authorities and has contacts for a "r