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Miners who are to be pardoned for historic convictions will receive no compensation, Justice Secretary Keith Brown has said. Mr Brown dismissed calls for compensation to be paid to miners pardoned over strike action in the 1980s.

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Insurance risk and commercial law firm BLM is expected to hike NQ pay across the UK, according to reports. The firm, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, currently offers newly-qualified solicitors a starting salary of £45,000 (roughly €53,400) in London and £32,000 (€38

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Farrah Mahmood and Nick Harbison have both been promoted to the position of associate director at Scullion LAW in Glasgow. Ms Mahmood said: “I am absolutely delighted to be promoted to associate director at Scullion LAW. It is an incredible opportunity in recognition of my achievements, effort

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Thorntons has bolstered its Dundee conveyancing team by merging with Kim Barclay Solicitors. Founder Kim Barclay began her career at Thorntons, later launching her own successful residential property and will and executory practice – and two decades on she is rejoining the team. Paralegal Fion

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Scotland's justice sector is to be "transformed", the Scottish government has announced. Its new strategy will ensure sure "victims' voices are heard" and will place women and children "at the heart of service delivery" in addition to reassessing the role that prisons and the use of imprisonment sho

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The Scottish legal system can be a mystery to English lawyers and there are plenty aspects of Scots law which are (understandably) entirely alien to our friends south of the border. One area of practice on which Scots and English lawyers can agree is the principles applicable to the interpretation o

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