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Gibson Kerr has made a number of appointments and promotions. Nadine Martin, who joined the firm in 2021 as a senior associate, has been promoted to legal director, which coincides with her being certified by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in trauma-informed practice.

An event featuring three women lawyers will be held online tomorrow. Edinburgh University society Future Lawyers: Law Society for Non-Law is hosting the event, which will hear from:

Solicitors from the Aberdeen Bar Association have warned that the north-east’s most vulnerable people will suffer from the Scottish government's refusal to adequately fund Scotland's legal aid system. Defence lawyers in the city and Aberdeenshire have withdrawn from the duty scheme in protest

Innes Clark writes about a case in which the Court of Appeal held that a worker was entitled to holiday pay going back through his whole period of employment. Having succeeded in persuading the Supreme Court that he was a worker, the claimant in Smith v Pimlico Plumbers had less success when his cla

Boyd Legal has acquired the clients of Musselburgh firm Somerville & Russell, which has closed after more than 30 years of operating in the town. The closure of the firm's Bridge Street premises resulted in a number of redundancies.

Representatives from across Scotland’s third sector have condemned the UK government’s Nationality and Borders Bill. MSPs have been asked to withhold the consent of the Scottish Parliament to the proposed legislation in a statement signed by over 60 organisations.

Shoosmiths has been appointed to the Lovell Partnerships Limited (Lovell) legal services and plot sales panels in Scotland, England and Wales. Work for the residential development expert commenced in January 2022 for three years. The appointment of Shoosmiths will assist Lovell’s housebuilding

An Edinburgh man who was convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner after he entered a flat one floor above his own one while naked has had his conviction quashed after the Sheriff Appeal Court accepted his appeal by stated case. It was argued by KWM that the sheriff had erred in conv

I am delighted to have been asked to provide a review for David Flint’s latest book – his 23rd publication, and that includes Stair and Halsbury. Even for a full-time academic that would constitute an impressive body of work; for a busy solicitor like Mr Flint it is nothing short of incr

A nearly 140-year-old copy of writings by Friedrich Engels, the lifetime brother-in-arms of Karl Marx, has been returned to a library decades after it went missing. The 1883 collection of Engels' writings went missing in the 1960s after being borrowed from the city library in Mönchengladbach in

At the age of 12, Elaine Motion, chairman of Balfour and Manson, knew she wanted to be a lawyer. She admits to being slightly embarrassed about having that ambition at such a young age, and she isn't completely sure if it was a film or her father who most influenced her decision. “I always wan

Thomas Ross QC writes about a proposed private prosecution of David Goodwillie and David Robertson that he and solicitor Melissa Rutherford are seeking for the rape of Denise Clair It is very difficult to read Lord Armstrong’s judgment in the civil case, without coming to t

Virginia Giuffre could be required to disclose the details of her recent settlement with Prince Andrew in a separate legal battle with Jeffrey Epstein's former lawyer Professor Alan Dershowitz, who denies her accusations of rape. Ms Giuffre alleges that she was forced to have sex with Professor Ders

Julian Assange should be taken out of prison and placed under house arrest, according to a United Nations expert. Mr Assange has been held at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London since his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy in April 2019, where he had spent seven years in order to avoid extradition.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is investigating former Post Office lawyers over the Horizon scandal – the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. The SRA has applied to the High Court to obtain documents relating to its investigation into potential solicitor misconduct.