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Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan has been appointed as Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman ever to hold the highest judicial position in Northern Ireland. She will be sworn in as successor to the incumbent Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, at the start of September 2021 &

A senior prosecutor in Utah has apologised after telling an elected politician to "die and go to hell" for disturbing his nap. Utah's Assistant Attorney General Steven Wuthrich sent a tirade of abuse to Salt Lake City councillor Darin Mano after "the interruption to my tranquillity", he admitted.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has determined that the former executive of a housebuilding company who was made redundant should be entitled to bonus in respect of projects completed after his redundancy. Gavin Loudon was employed by Stewart Milne Group Ltd&nb

Dorothy Bain QC is to be Scotland's next Lord Advocate, while Ruth Charteris QC will take up the role of Solicitor General. If the Scottish Parliament approves the nominations, Ms Bain will replace James Wolffe QC who will demit office once Her Majesty The Queen has signed the warrant appointin

HMRC was wrong to refuse a backdated claim for child tax credits for asylum seekers who had been granted refugee status, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled in the first successful social security test case for asylum seekers and tax credits in the UK. Although tax credits were abolished and r

The Scottish government has confirmed judges will be forced to register their financial interests. While judges must declare relevant interests in a case before them they are not required to register them before a case arises, unlike the practice in some other jurisdictions.

Scott Styles suggests how reform of the offices of Lord Advocate and Solicitor General might be achieved. It is a long-standing but nevertheless unsatisfactory feature of Scots law that the Lord Advocate performs two quite incompatible roles. On the one hand, the Lord Advocate is the head of the Sco

In-house solicitor Angus Niven has been crowned the Law Society of Scotland in-house rising star of 2021. Law Society of Scotland president Ken Dalling announced the winner at the In-house Annual Conference today.

The average price of a property in Scotland has increased by 6.3 per cent in 12 months to reach £161,401 in April 2021 but has fallen by 4.1 per cent compared to the previous month, according to the latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index. The UK average house price was &po

MacRoberts has advised BAM on the Atlantic Square development in Glasgow City Centre. The firm acted for the developer, BAM TCP Atlantic Square Limited, a joint venture between BAM Properties and Taylor Clark Properties, in the development and letting of 1 Atlantic Square to HMRC.

Thousands of judgments from the English and Welsh courts will be made available online for free through The National Archives, the UK government announced this morning. There is currently no single comprehensive archive of court judgments, though a wide selection are published by the British and Iri

A motorist caught driving with 99 licence suspensions has been arrested. Police in the state of New York pulled over Gilbert Cantres, 55, on Tuesday morning after he made a turn without indicating.

Two former residents of a home for the children of seafarers in Rhu, Argyll, have had their actions for damages against the operators of the home dismissed after a judge concluded that it would not be possible for there to be a fair hearing. The anonymous pursuers, B and C, were resid

A trainee paralegal with a gambling addiction who embezzled more than £220,000 from Aberdein Considine has been jailed for 16 months, The Press and Journal reports. At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Callum Scott, 23, admitted stealing the sum from the law firm in order to deal with a number of payday

A significant milestone will be reached for the Law Society of Scotland later this year when long-standing chief executive Lorna Jack steps down. The professional membership body for Scottish solicitors announced that Ms Jack will be retiring at the end of 2021. She has been in post for almost 13 ye