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Janet Rieu-Clarke Over 400 Law Society of Scotland registered paralegals have become known as, ‘Accredited Paralegals’ this week. The name change is intended to reflect the professional status of paralegals accredited under the scheme.

A partner at a Dundee law firm swapped the office for the obstacle course after running the Rough-Runner course in aid of Cancer Research UK. Kris Gilmartin, of Finlay, MacRae, Gilmartin and Warden, ran the course over the weekend with friends from his university days.

An organisation advocating assisted dying has called on Scotland's law reform body to consider the practice in its next programme. Friends at the End, a UK membership organisation campaigning to change the law to legally allow assisted dying in Scotland, has urged the Scottish Law Commission to incl

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS), which threatened legal action against a business over its use of the name ‘Glencoe’ has struck a more conciliatory tone after stating it would like to find a "mutually-agreeable solution". Lawyers for the charity, which owns the majority of the glen, asked

Scott Williamson Blackadders has become one of the first firms in Scotland to receive an accreditation recognising its work in family inheritance and succession planning.

Parliament House: The Hidden Gem exhibition in the 17th century Parliament Hall is back for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The free exhibition provides an intriguing look back through Scotland’s legal and political heritage telling the remarkable story behind Scotland’s highest courts.

Former Ross Harper lawyers Alan Miller and James Price have been struck off the roll of solicitors in Scotland after the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal found them guilty of professional misconduct. The findings against Mr Miller and Mr Price were made inter alia in respect of their tenur

The first judgement issued by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland, which clarifies the definition of "homeowner" has been published. A new structure for tribunals in Scotland came into effect on 1 December 2016 with the launch of the Housing and Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland a

Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen QC The Sheriff Appeal Court is to sit in Glasgow for the first time on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 August 2017.

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Catriona Reid As part of the UK government’s international commitment to improving transparency over who actually owns and controls UK companies, from 24 July 2017 this requirement has extended to eligible Scottish partnerships under the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant C

Gillian Craig looks at the risk attaching to ownership in an imperfect registration system. It’s not often that the Daily Mail reports on boundary issues in Edinburgh but the plight of homeowners, some of whom are on limited incomes, being landed with a £600,000 bill (or £6,000 eac

Appellant bulk importers have had their interlocutory appeal in a criminal case unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who have ruled grey market goods are caught by the criminal offence in s.92(1) Trade Marks Act 1994. This is an interlocutory appeal in a criminal case in which the

Martin Gill

Robert Holland A ruling that people providing team foster care are classed as council employees is "a significant decision reflecting the valuable service that foster carers deliver", according to a Scots lawyer involved in the case.