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Letters discovered in a lawyer's cupboard in Galashiels are casting a light on Borders life in the 1800s. The books of correspondence from lawyer George Craig were discovered at the back of cupboards in the historic offices of Iain Smith and Partners in 2015.

DWF has relocated its Edinburgh team – which includes four new senior hires – to Grade A office space in the heart of Edinburgh. The legal business has moved from No. 2 Lochrin Square to 2 Semple Street in the city's business district.DWF has leased the second floor at 2 Semple Street, w

Dear Editor, Andrew Stevenson of the Scottish Law Agents Society, in his article of 7 November 2022, noted a period when the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission Board had fewer than the intended legal members on it.

Park authorities in the US have urged members of the public not to lick their psychedelic toads. The National Park Service took to social media last week to discourage visitors from searching for and licking Sonoran Desert toads, also known as Colorado River toads.

Balfour and Manson chairman Elaine Motion took part in a panel discussion at the annual JUSTICE Human Rights Conference. The discussion focused on five aspects of constitutional law, including devolution, whether the UK should have a written constitution, and House of Lords reform.

Lefevres trainee solicitor Louis Bendle is raising money in aid of Movember by running from Dundee city centre to Edinburgh. All donations great or small will help Movember to change the face of men's health, tackle prostate cancer, testicular cancer, male suicide and mental health conditions.

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