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In response to a blog in SLN yesterday giving the author's opinions on a recent damages case that followed a criminal rape case, three solicitors have responded with their criticisms. On reading the inflammatory and often inaccurate blog piece entitled ‘Blog: Do civil rape cases mark ‘de

Pictured: (L-R) Michael Ellis, Claudia Duffy, Andy Harris, Stuart Hendry MBM Commercial recently welcomed two new European patent attorney consultants to the team as part of a strategic partnership with entrepreneurial patent attorney firm Ellis IP.

Peter Coghlan has joined Gilson Gray as finance director. Mr Coghlan has more than 16 years’ experience in the Scottish legal sector and will work closely with senior management to mould the firm’s future finances.

The average price of a property in Scotland reached £153,309 in August 2018 – an increase of 4.1 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 0.3 per cent when compared to the previous month. The latest publication of Registers of Scotland's monthly UK House Price Index&nbs

A book on partnership law authored by Harper Macleod's Stephen Chan has been released. Mr Chan, a partner at the firm, has penned A Practical Guide to Partnership Law in Scotland, which is published by Thomson Reuters.

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Numerous criminal barristers are going broke as a result of the shrinking legal aid budget, The Times reports. The Bar Council, which represents more than 15,000 barristers, has told the UK government that the profession is “at a pivotal point”.

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced it will be supporting art workshops for residents at Hillside View Care Home in Paisley this autumn.

Following the annual Patience and Buchan bake sale to raise funds for Alzheimer Scotland, the firm is pleased to announce a donation of £1,418 for the charity.

A dedicated team of walkers from Miller Hendry have raised a total of £3,325 after completing a special charity trek in memory of two former colleagues who passed away.

Austria's Supreme Court has ruled that a Turkish man, who is anonymous, gave up his right to Austrian nationality when he registered to vote in Turkey, setting a precedent for 20,000 naturalised Turks to be deprived of Austrian citizenship. The right-wing Freedom Party, which is in control of the in

Students have been given a list of offensive costumes they have been told not to wear for Halloween, including cowboy outfits. Also in the list of proscribed dress, issued by Kent University's student union, are the clothes of priests, nuns, Nazis, Crusaders, ISIS bombers, Native Americans, Israeli

A man whose wife made a false rape allegation against him and moved away with their children has been granted a divorce and a contact order in a case in which the sheriff found the children's negative views of their father were not independently formed and that the mother's witnesses,

TLT has acquired Glasgow-based commercial real estate firm Leslie Wolfson & Co. The deal adds three partners to TLT in Scotland: senior partner Howard Beach who advises on a wide range of commercial real estate work including investment purchases, sales, leasing and bank

Gillespie Macandrew has promoted experienced corporate and commercial lawyer Chris Gibson to partner. Mr Gibson manages a broad range of corporate and commercial work and is a member of the Scottish Legal Awards’ newly recognised Corporate Deal Team of the Year 2018.