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Subscribers to the free daily newsletter from our sister publication Scottish Housing News, the news service for Scotland's social housing sector, have exceeded 9,000 for the first time with 113 new readers last month taking the figure to 9,087. Unique visitors to the SHN website over the last three

CMS and the Fraser of Allander Institute have launched a new campaign aimed at bringing together Scotland’s business community, government and policy groups to maximise the nation’s economic growth potential. The International Scotland initiative begins with today’s release of a ne

The Stair Society website has been redesigned to freshen the appearance and ensure it can be viewed on mobile devices. All of the content from the old site has been transferred, including lectures and publications and an Open Access section highlighting content that is publicly available has been in

Dear Editor, The Scottish Legal News [headline] from 3 November on the publication of our 2021-22 report to the Scottish Parliament ["Abject failure of Scotland’s FOI regime highlighted by irritated public"] isn’t reflective of the text in the article that follows and isn’t support

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association will hold its Aberdeen Launch Party on Thursday at The Albyn. The event will kick off at 6:00pm. Drinks tokens will be provided to attendees. This is a great opportunity to meet, network and socialise with other SYLA members.

A Stornoway sheriff has allowed a proof in a dispute between an Aberdeen firm of solicitors and their commercial landlord over whether they had validly terminated the lease of their business premises. Iain Hingston, the sole director of Hingston’s Law Ltd, along with employees Graeme Murray an

Hastings Legal has promoted Tim Taylor to director with effect from 1st September 2022. Mr Taylor initially joined the Borders firm’s Duns office as a trainee solicitor in 2016 and was later made an associate.

A prestigious US university has evicted a man who pretended to be a student and roved from dorm to dorm for almost a year. The man, who has not been named, had been living on campus at Stanford University since at least December 2021, university officials said.

A multi-million-dollar project to protect a person’s online identity is enlisting help from a team of University of Dundee experts. Experts from the university’s Centre for Argument Technology are to develop software capable of detecting and disguising trademark linguistic patterns used

The School Mock Court Case Project is to host senior European judges. While visiting Scotland, the judges will visit secondary schools to give talks to students about their roles and experiences, with a focus on current events.

American law firms in London demand 12-hour work days from junior solicitors, a survey has shown.

On October 11, 2022, the Court of Session found against the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), not for the first time. Yet the cost of this latest litigation will be borne not by its lay members but by the lawyers so inadequately represented by it, writes Andrew Stevenson. The SLCC is a cr

An NHS clinical support worker at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary who was injured by a patient brought in by the police has lost a personal injury case against the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland. Beverly Gilchrist, aged 57, argued that her injuries were the responsibility in law of the

Highland solicitor and honorary sheriff Michael Burns has passed away at the age of 90, the Press and Journal reports. "Michael John Burns was born in the Shieling, Ferry Road, Dingwall where he lived for more than 80 years before moving to Maryburgh.

Tackling climate change should be a top priority for the UK government after addressing the cost-of-living crisis and NHS waiting lists, according to a new survey of nearly 6,000 adults in the UK.