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Tributes have been paid to Professor Robert Rennie, who has passed away following a sudden illness. Harper Macleod chairman, Professor Lorne Crerar, said: "I can’t think of a more popular partner and well respected member of the legal profession than Robert. He was a lovely man about whom

Robert was a first-class person. He was at the University of Glasgow at the same time as I was. He graduated with an ordinary degree in law, but went on to do a PhD, (on floating charges) part-time during his apprenticeship, and under the supervision of Jack Halliday. Robert admired Jack and, I thin

A new category of membership has been created for the UK to preserve its standing in the Council of European Bars and Law Societies (CCBE) after the end of the Brexit transition period. Fears that the UK delegation would be relegated to a lower status have been allayed with the announcement of 'affi

Regulations to improve Scotland’s parole system have been introduced to Parliament. The proposed changes include:

Malcolm Cannon, director of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland, has quit the role for a new post with Simpson & Marwick in Edinburgh, after less than 18 months in the job. Mr Cannon has been appointed as the new managing director of Simpson & Marwick's property services in Edinburgh.

Barristers should be included in the "key worker" category for the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Bar Council of Ireland has said.

UK law firm TLT has entered into a strategic alliance with Belgian law firm GSJ advocaten. The firms have significant expertise in common across a number of sectors including real estate, financial services, retail and the public sector, enabling cross border support for clients operating in the UK

Claire Mitchell QC and solicitor Ian Moir are to speak at an event hosted by the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) to raise awareness of legal aid issues in Scotland.

JUSTICE Scotland’s Annual Human Rights Day Lecture will return on 21 January 2021 with a discussion on the Human Rights Act. Twenty years of the Human Rights Act: a Scottish Perspective will feature a panel of four top speakers, chaired by Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court.

Benjamin Bestgen gives readers an overview of smart contracts this week. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Part of being a lawyer in the 21st century is the necessity to develop a degree of digital literacy, whether you like it or not. The legal world, it is often said, tends to be conservat

A woman declared dead by a court is still struggling to undo the ruling more than three years after pointing out she's still alive. Jeanne Pouchain, a 58-year-old from a town near the French city of Lyon, was ruled dead in 2017 during a long-running dispute with a former employee.

A sheriff in Dumbarton has granted a crave for division and sale of a property in Bearsden jointly owned by two feuding former sisters-in-law following several years of legal correspondence between them with no agreement.  Mridu Marwaha raised the action against her former sister-in-law&nb

Two Scottish judges are among a group that will sit in the Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) this term.

There are advantages to having a bit of age on you when you’re a family lawyer – quite apart from the fact that you are less likely to be trying to home school your own children. If you are 40 plus you will remember family law pre-Brussels II, which is going to be useful in this post-Bre

When Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf announced plans for increased fees and a series of grants in the dying days of 2020, he said he was offering up a “significant package of support” for legal aid practitioners who had “worked hard since the Covid-19 outbreak to help maintain acces