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Gilson Gray has promoted two of its team to partner. Sally Nash has been promoted within the family law team while John Fulton has been made partner within the firm’s real estate department.

Shoosmiths has announced two promotions and a senior level lateral hire within its real estate and corporate teams. Sheelagh Cooley, a specialist in real estate finance who joined Shoosmiths as a senior associate in 2014 has been promoted to partner.

Clyde & Co recently announced the latest round of promotions to legal director and senior counsel across the globe. Amongst the international promotions was Edinburgh-based casualty lawyer, Andrew Tolmie. Mr Tolmie has over nine years' experience assisting insurance, commercial and public sector

In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal has unanimously agreed the Royal Opera House (ROH) Covent Garden failed to take reasonable steps to prevent injury to viola player Christopher Goldscheider during a 2012 rehearsal of the Wagner opera, Die Walkure. As a result of his injury, Mr Goldscheider

Four Scottish law schools have made the top 10 in this year's Complete University Guide. Glasgow University fell a place to third this year, trailing Cambridge and University College London, and was followed by Oxford in fourth.

Court closures across England and Wales are "putting justice in danger", the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has warned. The professional body for legal executives said the HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) was putting "the cart before the horse" by going ahead with court closu

A powerful sketch by Nelson Mandela, The Cell Door, Robben Island, has been sold at Bonhams' modern and contemporary African art sale, in New York for $112,575. The wax pastel crayon work, which the South African revolutionary and president created in 2002, was one of the few that the statesman kept

A burglar who was stabbed to death by a pensioner was lawfully killed, a coroner has ruled. Henry Vincent was stabbed to death as he burgled the home of Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, in southeast London last April.

A judge in Virginia has ruled that the Confederate statues in Charlottesville are war memorials protected by law and that they cannot be removed. Judge Richard Moore made the decision in a case against city council members who voted two years ago to take down a statue of Confederate General Robert E

The Scottish committee for Cancer Research Racquet – the international group of US, UK & EU legal professionals who raise money for cancer research – has announced details of its 2019 Scottish fundraiser: a Champagne Garden Party, to be held in Edinburgh on the evening of Friday 24 M

Director Joe Berlinger's new Ted Bundy biopic arrives in cinemas and on Sky Cinema today amid a storm of controversy over its casting of former teen heart-throb Zac Efron as the notorious murderer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least 30 women in the 1970s. The film, described by Berlinger as a

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. TfL Tube chiefs ban adverts from 11 countries over poor human rights

A shocked motorist protested his innocence after failing a roadside breathalyser test because he had eaten a durian fruit. The notoriously stinky fruit apparently registered a false positive for alcohol, and the man was cleared after submitting a blood sample.

Donald Findlay QC has narrated an audiobook on the divorce case of the Duchess of Argyll – Allan Nicol’s Three Strand Pearl Necklace. The book recounts a tale that scandalised and shocked the country in 1963.

A mother who was found guilty of assaulting two police officers who unlawfully entered her home and tried to detain her has successfully appealed against her conviction. The High Court of Justiciary ruled that the sheriff’s decision to convict, which was upheld by the Sheriff Appeal