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Three newly qualified members of the Scottish legal in-house community have been shortlisted as finalists of the 2018 Law Society of Scotland In-house Rising Star Award. The finalists are: Victoria Davidson, Royal Bank of Scotland; Sarah Haig, Glasgow City Council; Oksana Orlova-Farre

A team of staff from Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCC&W) embarked on a demanding 75 mile cycle around their branch network in Aberdeenshire over the weekend to raise funds for the firm’s chosen charity, Friends of Roxburghe House, a purpose built specialist palliative care unit in

Trustees of the Scottish Solicitors Staff Pension Fund who raised an action against a legal firm and its former partners to recover a £90,000 deficit in the fund have successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to dismiss their claim. The Inner House of the Court of Session allowed

Scotland would move to a soft opt out system for organ and tissue donation under legislation introduced to the Scottish Parliament. The Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill will change organ and tissue donation from the current ‘opt in’ system to an ‘opt out’ system.

A proposed bill on transport will bring forward the most radical measures since devolution, the Scottish government has said. The Transport (Scotland) Bill aims to empower local authorities and establish consistent standards in the transport system.

Online memes could disappear if copyright rules proposed by the EU come to fruition, an expert has warned. The Copyright Directive, which the European Parliament will vote on this month, has incurred the ire of digital rights groups.

Gilson Gray has announced the promotion of Keith Anderson to partner within the litigation and dispute resolution team. Mr Anderson joined in 2015 as part of a move which saw the whole of Morisons LLP commercial litigation team transfer across to the firm.

McVey & Murricane (MM) has announced the lateral appointment of Robin Craig as director of commercial property. Mr Craig brings with him more than 25 years' commercial property experience and knowledge, having been a director at Frederick & Co, Solicitors, Glasgow. He arrives as MM business

Malcolm Combe, a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and chair of the Scottish University Law Clinic Network, discusses the most recent gathering of law clinic experts. On 6 June 2018, students and staff from seven of Scotland’s universities met at the University of Dundee for the se

The British and Foreign Bible Society has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after its computer network was compromised as the result of a cyber-attack in 2016. Between November and December 2016, the intruders exploited a weakness in the society’s ne

Former Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has called on the Prime Minister to set up an independent, judge-led inquiry into the UK’s role in torture and rendition – in the wake of her apology to torture victims. Former Prime Minister, David Cameron, promised an inquiry as one of his fir

Elizabeth Comerford discusses the strategies cybercriminals use against lawyers and some of the precautions firms can take. Cyber fraud is a continuing, ever-evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat to the legal profession. In December 2016, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the regulator i

Nearly two thirds of judges recruited last year hailed from state schools, The Times reports. In 2017-18, 66 per cent of judicial applicants were state educated while 28 per cent had attended fee paying schools and six per cent schools abroad.

A court in Austria has ruled that internet giant YouTube can be held liable for copyright breaches in videos its users upload. In a judgment published last week, Vienna's commercial court said YouTube had played an active role in the dissemination of such content and as such could not claim "neutral

A request for a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a ruling on the question of whether the United Kingdom can unilaterally revoke its notice of intention to the leave the EU has been refused. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the question being asked was “hypo