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A drinks reception to celebrate the achievements of Dame Margaret Kidd KC, as well as those of all other female members of the Scottish bar, will be hosted by the Faculty of Advocates in Parliament Hall later this month. Margaret Kidd was the first woman to call as an advocate in Scotland, in 1923.

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The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) has launched an online charity auction to raise funds for Ukrainian lawyers in a difficult situation as a result of the war.

A man who allegedly robbed a shop wielding Nintendo's iconic 1980s Zapper as a weapon has been arrested. David Joseph Dalesandro, 25, allegedly painted the video game controller most strongly associated with Duck Hunt and threatened a shopkeeper with it.

The number of cases concluded in 2022/23 rose by 15 per cent from 2021/22, according to the latest statistical bulletin from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service.

Digby Brown hosted another successful round of head injury information days (HiiD) in Edinburgh and Glasgow last month.

Gillespie Macandrew is to retain seven of its trainees as newly qualified solicitors. They will be joining the firm’s commercial property, dispute resolution, energy, family law, land & rural business and private client teams. Beth Hancock, Miles McKay, Fiona Reid, Rachael Burke, Alasdair

Children and young people in the justice system will soon be able to benefit from "coordinated, comprehensive support under one roof" following a £6 million investment in setting up Bairns' Hoose test sites. The creation of Bairns’ Hoose test sites aims to ensure a range of trauma-inform

Advocates cannot act in the juryless trials pilot without the participation of solicitors, contrary to a rumour endorsed by politicians that betrays "complete ignorance" of the legal system, a senior lawyer has told Scottish Legal News. Vice-Dean of Faculty, Ronnie Renucci KC, said that, since

The next few months are set to see two important cases making their way through the Court of Session, both of which concern the meaning of sex within the Equality Act. The first is the appeal of Petition of for Women Scotland [2022] CSOH 90 and the decision of Lady Haldane that sex means sex as modi

A new national strategy to help cut violent crime further has been published. Backed by more than £2 million of Scottish government investment this year, the Violence Prevention Framework is the first co-ordinated strategy for Scotland to tackle the issue.

The High Court of Justiciary has allowed the consideration of a late application to raise matters excluded by the “rape shield” provisions of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 after finding it was in the interest of justice to allow it. Appellant Edward Doran was indicted to a p

A Scottish Parliament committee wants to understand what impact the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill will have on legal regulators, service providers and consumers in Scotland. The bill will update the regulation of legal services in Scotland and provides for a modernised regulatory fram

A suspected drug dealer who jumped into a river to escape police was apprehended after slowly floating downstream for six hours. Michael Cortez, 31, jumped into the Cache la Poudre River in the US state of Colorado while pursued by police who identified him as a wanted man.

The Scottish Law Commission has published its Eleventh Programme of Law Reform. The programme will form the basis for most of the commission’s work for the five year period from 2023 to 2027.