Legal news

TLT appoints two to Scottish real estate team
Legal director and solicitor appointments add experience

Thorntons appoints two Dundee partners
Loretta Maxfield and Robbie Francis promoted

Partner promotions bring female majority to Balfour+Manson
Three appointments result in 13 women out of 24

Society adds online version to mentor scheme
Platform allows mentors and mentees to choose own matches

Ministers open consultation on defamation law reform
Government acts on Scottish Law Commission proposals

Child in Scotland for medical reasons became habitually resident
Judge refuses father's petition under Child Abduction Act

Social security charter seeks to spell out Scottish practice
Ministers' blueprint laid before MSPs for approval

Fees review and Taylor review documents published by SCJC
Committee finds no clear evidence to support hourly rate rise

Three solicitors join as Gibson Kerr recruits to expand
Firm sees "significant growth" in family and personal law

Society names new Regulatory Committee chair
Business school lecturer Craig Cathcart to succeed Carole Ford

Mackinnons takes on practice of Iain Smith Solicitors
Aberdeen firms combine under Mackinnons name

Scottish Women's Rights Centre project listed in Knowledge Exchange Awards
Collaboration supports women affected by abuse

New chairman for Miller Samuel Hill Brown
Marie Macdonald to succeed Michael Samuel

Naomi Pryde to head DWF commercial litigation in Scotland
Society Council member joins from Dentons

Foxhunting law to be tightened up
Bill will put further controls on dogs, following Bonomy report

Inverness partner appointment for Harper Macleod
Fiona Neilson joins from Ledingham Chalmers

Road Traffic Accident Law opens in Glasgow
David Adams joins as associate to set up new base

Scottish Government concedes error in Salmond investigation
Permanent Secretary apologises "to all involved" as decision annulled

Society invites nominations for honorary membership
"Outstanding service for the public good" criterion

O'Neill re-elected as Brodies chair
Partners back third three-year term

Bail supervision guidance revised
New version for local authority supervision services

Pinsents partner becomes President of Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
Martin Ewan takes over at 500 year old body

Charity law review opens with consultation
Ministers set out options for more accountable system

Solicitor struck off after embezzlement conviction
Paul O'Donnell took £21,485 of clients' money