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The administrators of collapsed Pagan Osborne have secured approval from the former law firm’s creditors to sell off the firm’s assets. With a history stretching back 250-years, Pagans was one of Scotland’s most high profile small law firms when it collapsed at the start of September.

New rules coming into effect next month will require legal aid applicants to give the Scottish Legal Aid Board advance notice of intention to apply for an award of expenses out of the Legal Aid Fund. The new rules affect applications under section 19(1) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (applicat

Alan McIntosh, senior money adviser in Inverclyde Council, writes on the Common Financial Tool. In the first year of implementation of the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act 2014 (BADAS), the number of sequestrations in Scotland dropped by 44%; Debt Payment Programmes dropped by 50%; and alth

Andrew Green QC The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed to the Treasury Committee’s proposal for a legal adviser to study its report into misconduct at 73 per cent state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland’s now notorious GRG restructuring unit.

Joe Boyd An Edinburgh-based solicitor has spoken out about being a lawyer with a stammer in the run up to International Stammering Awareness Day.

Lord Matthews The Boundary Commission for Scotland has published its Revised Proposals for UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland as part of its 2018 Review.

Cat MacLean One of Scotland’s leading legal authorities on banking misconduct has said only a tiny fraction of the businesses affected by the RBS Global Restructuring Group scandal are likely to ever have any real prospect of compensation due to the extraordinarily stringent rules the bank has app

Pictured: Lawyers at last year's Society of Advocates annual dinner Gordon Jackson QC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, will address the Society of Advocates' annual dinner in Aberdeen next month.

David Snell Law firms are embracing commonplace, but not cutting edge, technologies, according to a new study by PwC.

Dr Dirk Voorhoof Dr Dirk Voorhoof of the Human Rights Centre at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at Ghent University addresses a recent European court judgment.

David Sanders The former chief marketing officer of Edinburgh-based law firm Maclay Murray & Spens has joined the Board of Directors of Lex Mundi.

Members of Terra Firma Chambers are to participate in Sleep in the Park, the world's largest ever sleep-out to end homelessness in Scotland. Team Terra Firma, comprising Andrew Bowen QC, Graham Dunlop, Roddy MacLeod and clerks Emma Potter and Andrew Veitch, will be part of a 9,000 strong gathering s

The second Highland Noir novel from Inverness solicitor Helen Forbes will be released on Thursday. Madness Lies, the long-awaited follow-up to In the Shadow of the Hill, follows DS Joe Galbraith on a new murder investigation and moves between Inverness, North Uist and London, reaching a terrifying d

Lord Keen of Elie QC A major campaign to promote the UK's legal services internationally will also benefit Scotland, the Advocate General, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has said.