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Following on from yesterday’s news that Inksters Solicitors has been ranked third in the UK for the quality of its Twitter account, the firm has now been ...

The Law Society of Scotland’s new three-year equality strategy aims to improve equality in the legal profession and support solicitors as they progress through their careers. Published ...

Research covering 5,000 law firms across the UK has found that 55 per cent of respondents see improving profitability as the biggest challenge of 2015, The Lawyer ...

Perthshire property bosses are reflecting on ‘a year of stability’ in the local market, and predicting a similar theme to 2015. Recently collated statistics from Perthshire Solicitors ...

A planned new regulator of the UK’s oil and gas reserves could face conflicts of interest in its work and “robust” measures will be needed to eliminate ...

A number of new sheriffs have been appointed in Tayside, Central and Fife. Gillian Anne Wade QC (pictured right) and Simon Geoffrey Collins QC have been appointed ...

Scottish ministers have been warned by lawyers to be careful over moves to make it incumbent on social care and medical staff to disclose medical blunders to ...

A landlord who was forced to go to the Inner House of the Court of Session to defend his property rights has been awarded expenses from the ...

A body comprising Scottish lawyers, family consultants and financial specialists has found that businesses in Scotland are suffering as a result of divorce and separation. Consensus Collaboration ...

Two new commissioners were recently appointed to the Scottish Law Commission (SLC). The SLC was established under the Law Commissions Act 1965 for the purposes of promoting ...

Sheriff Graham Cox has died aged 81. Sheriff Cox was born in Newcastle in December 1933 and was brought up in Cambuslang until he moved to Dundee ...

The parents of a man who was killed after being struck by a car as he walked across a zebra crossing have failed in an appeal over ...

The next series of "Parliament Days" have been announced, with three more locations across Scotland set to host the Scottish Parliament over the coming months. Parliament Days ...

Glasgow City Council has appointed lawyer Annemarie O'Donnell its new chief executive to replace George Black, who retires next month. Ms O'Donnell was chosen by the appointment ...