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President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, is to deliver the Aberdeen Law Project's Annual Lecture this month. The subject of Lord Reed's lecture will be 'success in the law'. The event will take place in King's College Conference Centre at the University of Aberdeen.

Apple is no longer facing an EU investigation over whether its imposition of its own in-app purchases system on app developers breaches competition law. The European Commission this week sent a revised statement of objections to Apple in relation to a complaint raised by music streaming service Spot

Ukrainian lawyer Larysa Zhdankina writes about her journey to Scotland last year following the Russian invasion. Our house in Kyiv is located 20 minutes from Zhulyany airport and Vasylkiv military airfield. These objects were attacked in the first minutes of the invasion. The remains of the fir

A New York lawyer who defended drug kingpin El Chapo and Jeffrey Epstein has launched a new career as a musician. Mariel Colón Miró's debut single La Abogada – Spanish for "The Lawyer" – tells the story of a young woman lawyer who falls in love with her client.

Scottish Legal News is delighted to wish our sister publication Scottish Construction Now many happy returns as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Burges Salmon has announced appointment of five new partners, including Claire MacLean in Edinburgh. Ms MacLean was one of the original team members who joined Burges Salmon when the firm launched in Edinburgh in 2019.

Lawyers from BTO are taking part in the LandAid SleepOut tonight in Glasgow to raise money to help support young people who are homeless. The team – Mark Colquhoun, Peter Graham, Carly Mills, Charlie Eadie and Lucy Ferguson – are raising funds for these young homeless people so that they

JUSTICE has been granted permission to intervene in the Court of Appeal case: U3 v Secretary of State for the Home Department. The case concerns the deprivation of UK citizenship of a woman – U3 – and refusal to allow her to re-enter the country, both for reasons of national security. U3

The Supreme Court will be sitting at the Manchester Civil Justice Centre next week, from Monday 6 to Thursday 9 March 2023. This visit will be the first time that the court has sat outside of one of the four UK capital cities, having previously sat in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.

A judicial review petition seeking declarator that a decision of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs prohibiting UK-registered fishing vessels from catching sandeel for commercial purposes in the North Sea for the entirety of 2022 has been refused by a Lord Ordinary. Sunbe

A police officer tracking a suspected spy balloon was left red-faced after discovering it was cack on his windshield. The community police officer in the Dutch town of Boxtel said he noticed a "spy balloon above my neighbourhood" during his rounds.

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised high-street retailer Ann Summers on the opening of a new store in Glasgow. The new shop is located within Buchanan Galleries and becomes the retail giant's third city centre store. The WBD team was led by partner Nikki Powell and managing associate Clare Lamon

TLT has appointed corporate lawyer Douglas Roberts as a partner. Previously a corporate partner at Lindsays, his portfolio includes over 20 years of M&A, equity investments and corporate advisory work across a broad spectrum of clients, including SMEs, family businesses and start-ups.

The skills and knowledge required to be ‘The Complete Conveyancer’ will be the focus of CLT Scotland’s Conveyancing Conference taking place exclusively in-person on Monday 6 March at the Hilton Glasgow.

Jacqueline Moore, one of Scotland’s leading immigration solicitors, has joined Thorntons. She is accredited as a specialist in immigration law by the Law Society of Scotland and is top ranked as an individual practitioner by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.