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Brodies LLP has been reappointed to the City of Edinburgh Council's new Legal Services Framework where it will provide support in four out of the six available lots. The result of a competitive tender process run by the council but creating a framework that can be used by many local authorities acro

Neil Crockatt has been appointed as partner and head of residential property at Blackadders. Mr Crockatt has been a property solicitor for 29 years and has worked at partner and director level for firms in Perth, Glasgow and Dunfermline.

Glasgow University has introduced the world's first master's degree in reparatory justice. The degree has been established in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) and comes amid a global campaign for financial reparations stemming from the transatlantic slave trade.

Harper Macleod has been appointed to all six available lots on Edinburgh Council’s new legal services framework. Following a competitive tender process, the firm was appointed to the two-year framework on all six lots: commercial, property & planning, litigation, employment, major projects

A photographer groomed young women into taking part in modelling shoots in order to sexually assault them, a jury has found. Simon Scott, 44, from Aberdeen, was jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of offences against five victims.

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has accepted instructions in an environmental justice case over the proposed industrialisation of St Fittick’s Park in Torry, Aberdeen. A petition for judicial review of a decision of Aberdeen City Council to lease and develop the park for industrial purposes was lodged

The Dundee Legal Walk will be held later this month in aid of the Access to Justice Foundation. The walk, now in its second year in Dundee, will take place on Sunday 22 October and will be followed by a reception where there will be a short speech.

The Scottish legal sector has welcomed 49 new solicitors at an admissions ceremony held at the historic Signet Library in Edinburgh.

Customs officials have confiscated giraffe faeces from a traveller who said she planned to make a necklace from the droppings. The small box of ball-shaped droppings was declared by a woman returning from Kenya to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in the US.

Mercy killings will not always be prosecuted, new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service states. Cases in which the victim had a clear and informed desire to end their life or in which the suspected killer acted under significant emotional pressure could make prosecution unlikely.

Eighteen new devils at the Faculty of Advocates settled into their foundation course training at the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh this week.

A leading barrister, arbitrator and shipping expert will address some of the challenges facing the shipping sector at a special event in Aberdeen. James Turner KC, has decades of experience in energy, shipbuilding, and shipping disputes and has a focus on decommissioning, ship recycling and decarbon

The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law will host a symposium to discuss the monograph Claiming a Promised Inheritance: a Comparative Study by Edinburgh Law School's Professor Alexandra Braun. The book examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, la

Home Secretary Suella Braverman acted unlawfully by using a statutory instrument to give the police more powers to impose restrictions on protests that cause ‘more than minor’ disruption, human rights organisation Liberty has claimed. Liberty argues that Ms Braverman was not given the po

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN-backed probe into Ethiopia's abuses is set to end. No one has asked for it to continue