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Scullion LAW has welcomed Darren Fleming to its road traffic and criminal law team. ​Kris Buchanan, head of the team said: “Darren brings to the team a wealth of knowledge and experience from the High Court, having acted as junior counsel to some of the country’s leading KCs, and in so

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Aberdein Considine has appointed Marianne McJannett as a partner in the firm’s Glasgow office. Ms McJannett, who qualified as a solicitor in 2012, joins Aberdein Considine from Bellwether Green, where she was head of employment.

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Livingstone Brown has announced the promotion of both Robbie Brodie and Stephen Smith to legal director. Mr Brodie has been with the firm since 2017 and has played a key role in growing the firm’s personal injury department. Mr Smith joined the firm in 2020 and heads the firm’s employmen

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Lindsays has appointed Ken Dinneen as its head of finance. He succeeds Jim Kinloch, who is retiring after seven years with the firm, and brings with him decades of experience of working in legal services, most recently as finance director of Balfour and Manson.

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Burness Paull has appointed Nicola Scott as a partner in its energy team. Ms Scott advises clients in the renewables sector on real estate matters having spent her career working in both private practice and in house with a ‘big six’ energy company. Her experience includes acting for cli

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Solicitors employed on the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s emergency helpline have backed strike action over changes to shift patterns, The Scotsman reports. Sixteen solicitors working on the Solicitor Contact Line voted for industrial action following complaints that management had imposed 12-hour

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Hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales have had their personal data stolen in a cyber-attack. The Ministry of Justice today announced that hackers had "accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital s

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Calls for the establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley will not be enough to solve the region's "legal aid desert", Scottish Legal News has been told. Earlier this week, a new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) raised co

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Public law faces a puzzle prompted by the rise in populism and political polarisation in recent times: on the one hand, the values of public law including the rule of law, fundamental rights protections, the separation of powers and democratic government generally celebrate and provide structures to

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How willing would you be to hand over your mobile phone to the police if they asked to examine its contents? Why are many suspicious of facial recognition technology, yet happy to use this to unlock their digital devices? These are themes that University of Dundee and Open University experts are hel

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A local newspaper has successfully defended a lawsuit brought by a father who complained that it had failed to cover his son's high school basketball games. Vermont man Robert Lafayette sued the Burlington Free Press and two of its journalists, alleging that its coverage of high school sports was no

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A Twix advert has been banned in the UK for encouraging dangerous driving. The minute-long advert shows a race between two cars, one of which tumbles down a cliff and lands upside down on the other, becoming joined sunroof to sunroof.

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A senior corporate lawyer has come forward to claim a mysterious pile of cash seemingly abandoned near rubbish bins. Thai lawyer Thaweewat Sengkaew turned up at a police station to claim ownership of the 12 million baht in cash (around £272,300).

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A runaway zebra has been caught by police and airlifted back to his owner after absconding for over a week. Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said the zebra, named Ed, was finally tracked down on Sunday after several sightings.