Legal news

Strathclyde academic joins Commission homicide project
Dr Claire McDiarmid to help develop discussion paper

Brodies makes corporate tax partner hire
Karen Davidson joins from EY

Lindsays welcomes seven new trainees
Firm increases intake of future solicitors

Bill to ban smacking introduced to Holyrood
Government declares support for Green MSP's measure

Energy partner appointment at TLT
Nick Shenken joins from Pinsent Masons

Burness Paull wins Dealmakers award
"Legal Adviser of the Year" vote by Scottish Business Insider

CJEU takes hard line on motor insurance
Vehicle on private land must be covered unless formally withdrawn from use

Indian Supreme Court strikes down gay sex penal provision
Colonial era prohibition "unconstitutional"

Brodies signs deal to move Edinburgh HQ in 2020
Firm taking three floors in new development

Society opens new round of committee recruitment
Places available on 30 committees and panels

LSEW welcomes Court of Appeal privilege ruling
High Court disclosure order reversed following intervention

Litigation partner leads 16 promotions at Anderson Strathern
Gillian Jamieson recognised for Glasgow growth

Sturgeon sets out new legislative programme
Technical bills dominate as ministers focus on services

Offender reconviction rate continues downwards
Latest figures confirm trend of past decade

Six new summary sheriffs appointed
Five solicitors and one advocate join bench

Promotions and trainee moves at MacRoberts
Nine promoted, five retained and eight new starts

Charity benefits from Scullion free wills offer
200 wills created in scheme targeting over-55s

Immigration cases with media interest handled faster, report claims
Fast tracking system set up under Amber Rudd

Faculty welcomes bill bringing damages reforms
Periodical payments power "long overdue"

Review of miners' strike policing issues call for evidence
QC chair calls for people's experiences

Specialist immigration lawyer joins Burness Paull
Jamie Kerr moves from Thorntons

Two promoted to partner at WJM
Joanne Ockrim and Martin O'Neill make top table

Tribunals took wrong approach to asylum seekers' faith claims: Inner House
Too much weight placed on falsity of evidence on other matters

Solicitor joins listening body for child abuse victims
Moira Ramage one of three appointed to National Confidential Forum