Trainee numbers show legal sector’s record growth continues
Dec 6, 2024 · Growth for the Scottish legal sector has been maintained for a fourth consecutive year, with 764 new solicitor traineeships commencing in the past 12 months to the end of October 2024. The Law Society of Scotland data for the 2023-24 legal practice year is the third highest number of new trainees re
Solicitor Stuart Murray under investigation over financial activity
Oct 23, 2024 · Aberdeen solicitor Stuart Murray has had his practising certificate withdrawn by the Law Society as a probe into financial irregularities gets underway. The former Aberdeen Bar Association president and vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association is being investigated over his financia
Claire White: Additional charges in Scottish courts – a guide to the ...
Oct 9, 2024 · The First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has issued welcome guidance on the assessment of “additional charges” payable on solicitors’ fees in judicial accounts, writes Claire White. This is a percentage uplift on solicitors’ fees which is allowed where th
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5 days ago · The Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Alice Leggat as a director of the board and Laura West as a member of its court. Ms Leggat, a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales, is head of legal at SSE Thermal, a key business of SSE plc, where she advises on all manner of c
Ahmed Khogali: Supreme Court rejects Article 6 challenge against ...
Nov 21, 2024 · Ahmed Khogali gives an overview of Daly v HM Advocate. Criminal appeals to the UK Supreme Court are rare due to the High Court of Justiciary’s status as the final court of appeal in Scots criminal law. Under the Scotland Act 1998, such appeals are only permitted to the Supreme Court where devo
New legal members for Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland
Dec 6, 2024 · Sixteen lawyers have been appointed as legal members of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. The new appointees are Eric Baijal, Katharine McKerrell, Bruce Beveridge, Colin Neilson, Joe Boyd, Ruth O’Hare, Stephanie Carr, Bobby Reid, Edward Christie, Ann Ritchie, Claire Currie, Amanda Snedd
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Frozen foods supermarket loses appeal against £9,500 damages …
5 days ago · Pursuer and respondent Tracey Thomson had offered to prove before the sheriff that Iceland Foods Ltd was in breach of the Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 1960 and the common law. It was nonetheless accepted that her action could only succeed if the maxim applied, with the sheriff finding that the maxim applied and that Iceland had not offered an explanation to displace the inference of ...
Raft of promotions and appointments at MML solicitors
Nov 29, 2024 · MML Law, the prominent Dundee solicitors’ firm, has announced a raft of new appointments and promotions. Jay Lawson, a solicitor in MML’s busy employment law practice, has been promoted to partner and Natalie Menzies, a lawyer in the firm’s expanding private client department, has
Surge in parents representing themselves in Scottish family courts
5 days ago · The 2024 Shared Parenting Scotland annual user survey of clients who have received the charity’s help in the past year has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of parents representing themselves in Scottish courts because they cannot find a solicitor to represent them. Twenty per cent of