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Magnus Mackay has joined Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, where he will specialise in private client work including wills, estate planning, inheritance tax, trusts and powers of attorney. Mr Mackay will work with the private client team to advise individuals and families on their legal affairs.

A hidden luxury property market is thriving in Scotland as agents offer exclusive homes on private lists, The Times reports. The number of properties being publicly marketed has declined, with the latest Registers of Scotland figures showing a 6.5 per cent year-on-year fall.

A new toxicology laboratory for Scotland is to be created to provide state-of-the-art testing capabilities for police and prosecutors. The Scottish government is providing more than £6 million for the new purpose-built centre that will be able to test for a wide range of substances, including

Old police stations number among 100 properties sold by Police Scotland that have netted the single force more than £28 million since 2013. The former Strathclyde Police headquarters at 173 Pitt Street, Glasgow, was the most lucrative, selling for £9.6m in 2018. The police training schoo

Pictured: Katrina Hall and Alexander Owen and their coach Linda Fyffe, who is a partner in Laurie & Co. Aberdeen University DPLP students Katrina Hall and Alexander Owen have placed third in the International Negotiation Competition last week, hosted by the National University of Singapore and S

Just Employment Law has partnered with Partick Thistle Football Club to unveil a special edition goalkeeper kit for the 2021/22 campaign, which carries the logo of its charity partner, Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland (PCAS).

A group of alleged fraudsters who dressed up as cardinals in order to dupe people out of millions of euros have been caught in an undercover police operation that saw officers themselves disguised – as priests. The accused were said to have tricked victims into meetings at the pontifical Grego

A man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering the partner of his ex-wife’s new boyfriend’s mother in 2019 has had his appeal against conviction refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Paul Smith argued that the trial judge had erred in withdrawing the defence of p

Arnot Manderson Advocates has welcomed Stephen Hughes to the stable. Mr Hughes' legal experience at the bar spans almost 25 years. He has extensive experience in criminal trials and employment law. He frequently represents national and multinational companies in employment tribunals a

Hugh Olson has been appointed director of training and education for the Faculty of Advocates. Mr Olson takes over from Neil Mackenzie QC.

Cairn Energy claims to have effectively seized Indian state-owned properties in Paris in an attempt to force the country to pay $1.7 billion awarded last year by an international tribunal in The Hague, the Financial Times reports. Its application in France is the first to succeed and the compan

Andrew Scott takes a look at the value of search orders when enforcing intellectual property rights. Most companies are now aware of the value to their business of intellectual property (IP) and the various ways in which to protect those IP assets. However, protecting the asset is only half the stor

Stephen Farrell takes a look at whether sports governance bodies are doing enough to tackle issues of diversity and inclusion. As the countdown begins for the Tokyo Olympics 2021 it has been reported that FINA, the International Swimming Association, has made a decision that could have damaging

Too many drug addicts are "cycling in and out" of prison without hope of rehabilitation or recovery, according to a UK government review. The Review of drugs part two: prevention, treatment, and recovery, by Dame Carol Black, sets out recommendations for drug treatment and recovery.

Home Secretary Priti Patel's laws to thwart asylum seekers attempts to cross the Channel were dealt a blow yesterday after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would no longer prosecute migrants. The agreement made between prosecutors, police, Border Force, the National Crime Agency and the H