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The court system south of the border is facing a potential crisis as criminal barristers leave the profession for better-paid roles, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has warned. Mary Prior KC, who leads the CBA, highlighted how young barristers entering criminal law out of a sense of

The legacy of the Post Office scandal shows the rules around legal professional privilege need urgent reform, a new report shows. Ethical standards and rules about corporate governance should be strengthened to prevent abuse of privilege, experts from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter have said.

Professor Chloë Kennedy has been awarded over £372,000 from the Leverhulme Trust for a new research project entitled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The four-year project will be led collaboratively with co-investigators Dr Alice Krzanich (University of Aberdeen) and

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Pinsent Masons has announced it has agreed to lease more than 31,000 sq ft of Grade A office space in the Aurora building at 120 Bothwell Street, Glasgow.

The Moon has been named as a threatened heritage site in anticipation of future commercial lunar landings. The World Monuments Fund (WMF), a charity founded in the 1960s, named the Moon among 25 sites on its 2025 watchlist – the first time that it has included a site in outer space, The Art Ne

Boutique  Edinburgh firm Connell and Connell has promoted solicitor Chloe Davidson to associate. Ms Davidson, a specialist in Scottish residential property, joined Connell and Connell from D J Alexander Legal and has been with the firm since 2020.

SJ Macdonald, who works across WJM's Scottish offices as part of the firm's wills & trusts disputes team has been elected as a committee member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Contentious Trusts and Estates Global SIG Steering Committee. This follows her appointment as v

Glasgow City Council has succeeded in an appeal against a ruling that permitted motorists who received a low emission zone (LEZ) penalty by untracked post to have their fines overturned. The Transport Appeal Tribunal for Scotland ruled in October 2023 that LEZ fines which the council had failed to s

Sheriff Simon Collins KC has issued his determination following a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths by suicide of Katie Allan and William Brown, which occurred at HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Polmont. Katie, 21, was found dead in her cell on 4 June 2018. William, 16, was found dead

Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris KC, has acknowledged the conclusion of a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths in custody of Katie Allan and William Lindsay following the publication of Sheriff Simon Collins KC's determination and detailed reforms to the FAI regime. Ms Charteris said

Dr Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA), has written an opinion piece for legal publication JURIST news on the consequences of abandoning Ukraine. In the article he states the rules-based international legal order could suffer a devastating, and perhaps irreversi

Justice Secretary Angela Constance has announced the reappointment of Pauline Aylesbury as a member of Community Justice Scotland (CJS). Ms Aylesbury is a senior civil servant who is the deputy director for marketing, insight, brand Scotland and Internal Communications in the Scottish government.&nb

Average house prices in Scotland increased by 2.2 per cent in the 12 months to November 2023, figures from Registers of Scotland show. This was up from 0.5 per cent in the 12 months to October 2023 and was faster than the average UK house price annual inflation of negative 2.1 per cent in the 12 mon

Mackinnons Solicitors LLP has announced recent promotions across the firm. Gillian Smith becomes a senior associate within the private client department while Cameron Milne is elevated to the role of senior solicitor within the commercial department.