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A property management company has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision that a burden requiring homeowners in a housing scheme to contribute to the costs of maintaining open ground in the estate owned by the maintenance company was void because it created a “monopoly”. The S

Solicitor advocate Lesley Anderson has opened a new law firm in Falkirk, Lesley Anderson Law. Ms Anderson has spent the last decade in the town as a solicitor advocate with Russel + Aitken.

Laura McIntosh has joined CMS as a partner after 12 years at Dickson Minto. Ms McIntosh, who is based in CMS’s Edinburgh office, specialises in mergers & acquisitions and private equity deals.

Boyd Legal Solicitors announced the appointment of Kelly Matthews as an associate at the firm's new Kirkcaldy office.

Scottish-American law firm Rooney Nimmo has announced a new partnership with a Chinese law firm to expand its global reach. The firm, formed in the 2015 merger of Edinburgh-based Nimmo WS and Manhattan-based Rooney PC, is teaming up with Beijing Zhongjian Law Firm, The Scotsman reports.

We hope you enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day quiz on Friday. We received 122 responses, of which 44 were correct.

Brenda Mitchell, senior partner at Motorcycle Law Scotland, writes on issues with current practice around collision investigation reports. On 29 April 2017, Michael Cloy was killed whilst riding his motorcycle on the A711 close to Dumfries. A driver, Mr James Kiltie, turned across his path. Michael

The Scottish government is considering plans to make private parking fines fully enforceable in Scotland by extending keeper liability to private car parks. The measures may form part of the Transport (Scotland) Bill which is at stage 1 in the Scottish Parliament, The Courier reports.

Professor Lorne Crerar is set to be recognised with a lifetime achievement award at a ceremony in Glasgow this week. The head of Harper Macleod and a distinguished academic, Professor Crerar will be handed The Times Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scottish Legal Awards in Glasgow.

The Lawscot Foundation will benefit from cash raised by a London Marathon runner for the first time this year. Sarah Johnston, 39, is completing the 26.2 mile course to raise funds for the social mobility charity, which supports law students who have faced obstacles whilst growing up.

One of Scotland's leading experts in forensic science will discuss the role of science in the courtroom with a senior member of the Australian judiciary at a conference later this month. Professor Niamh Nic Daeid, director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the Univers

A family judge was forced to step in after a couple named their child "Griezmann Mbappe" after the famous football stars. The judge in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in southwest France, stripped the name from the five-month-old boy, AFP reports.

The owners of the former McEwens of Perth department store will not have to disclose the legal advice they were given before signing a personal guarantee granted to them by a bank in their action for reduction of the contract, a judge has ruled. John Bullough and his wife Georgina Bullough raised an

Two innovative judges from the US made a big impression with talks on "therapeutic justice" at a Faculty of Advocates seminar - and it seems Scotland made a big impression on them. Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren spoke of pioneering America’s mental health courts, while Judge Victoria Pratt discussed

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has invited solicitors to contribute to a research project looking at whether legal aid for discrimination cases provides effective access to justice for people who have suffered discrimination in Scotland. The equality body also wants to hear from any