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Plans to tighten the legal framework around Scottish limited partnerships have been supported in the main by the Faculty of Advocates. The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has proposed reform in the wake of evidence that limited partnerships, particularly

Top road traffic lawyer Graham Walker has been injured in a cycling accident in France, The Herald reports. Mr Walker, 60, of roadtrafficlaw.com, was in intensive care after he fell from his bike in a "freak accident" in which he hit a root on a woodland cylce path and landed on his head, a family f

Pictured (L-R): Claire Thornber, Nicola Gonnella and Claire McCracken. Weightmans has appointed three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, head of the Scottish judiciary and Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division in England & Wales, have agreed a new judicial protocol which will provide for the direct exchange of information between judges in intra-UK cross-border cases involv

Harper Macleod has continued the growth of its Inverness office with the arrival of a new senior associate. Kenneth Campbell has joined the firm from DWF in Edinburgh and will enhance Harper Macleod’s presence across the Highlands, particularly in relation to commercial disputes.

Nestlé's attempts to trademark its four-finger Kit Kat shape have been dismissed by judges in the European Court of Justice, in the latest judgment of a decade-long saga. In a ruling today, the court said the company had failed to show its shape was sufficiently distinctive in all the countri

Anderson Strathern has hired communications industry stalwart Beth Cameron to a newly created communications and public relations manager role. Ms Cameron brings over 20 years of public relations and communications experience to the firm, having started her career in advertising and brand management

If the bar continues to fail to attract women it will "wither from the roots up", Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC has said. In an interview with the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG), Ms Grahame said that while 65 per cent of law students are female across Scotland's

A lawyer’s lifelong passion for helping the careers of others will be commemorated in a scholarship set up to encourage students from less advantaged backgrounds to enter the legal profession. The Kirk Murdoch Memorial Fund will offer financial support, professional mentoring, work placements

The University of Glasgow has been ranked second in the UK for law in the Complete University Guide 2019.

The next Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill QC, has promised to “restore public trust in the Crown Prosecution Service” following a series of high-profile disclosure failings leading to collapsed trials. Mr Hill's appointment to the post was announced yesterday by the Attorney Gen

President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has delivered a lecture on the use of empirical research in the justice system. The lecture, entitled "Challenges in the justice system and the contribution of empirical research", was the inaugural Nuffield Foundation Annual Lecture and was delivered on 14

CLT Scotland’s advanced offer for the next event in the Scots Law 2018 Exhibition/Conference Series ends on Tuesday. The event will take place at BT Murrayfield on 29 & 30 October and all bookings received on or before Tuesday 31 July will attract an advanced offer price sta

A woman who was sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of four has won a case against the "same roof" rule which denied her the right to compensation. The rule denied payouts to victims who lived in the same home as their attackers before 1979.