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Neilsons Solicitors and Estate Agents has formed a new partnership with The Spartans FC. The Spartans FC is one of Edinburgh’s most respected local football clubs, competing at a high level in Scottish League Two.
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It has been suggested that the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, should recuse herself from any investigation into the malicious prosecution of Rangers FC's administrators due to her involvement in the saga. Ms Bain had claimed that prosecutors involved in the malicious prosecutions did not understand
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The Scottish Football Association has lost an appeal against the grant of an interdict preventing them from appointing an arbitral tribunal in a dispute between Rangers FC and the Scottish Professional Football League. Park’s of Hamilton (Holdings) Ltd, a sponsor of Rangers since 2015, raised
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A businessman who was at the centre of a botched police probe into the takeover of Rangers FC has had an appeal date set for his case against the authorities. David Grier, 61, a consultant with Duff & Phelps, took the Lord Advocate and Police Scotland to court, alleging wrongful arrest.
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On Saturday 25 June 2016, 16 brave souls from the BLM Glasgow office took part in the mammoth challenge of a 26-mile marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support along Hadrian’s Wall. The hike along Hadrian's Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site took the team past old Roman forts, settlements and stunning sc
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Complete Clarity Solicitors and Simplicity Legal has promoted four solicitors. Sinead Machin has been promoted to senior associate in the firm, while Siobhan Brown, Scott Stevenson and Linzi McQuade have all been promoted to senior solicitor.
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Thomas Ross The SLN Spotlight this week falls on Thomas Ross, advocate and president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association.
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A request from the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) for £4 million to fund facial recognition technology at stadiums has been rejected by the Scottish government. The SPFL had pursued the idea as a way of tackling sectarian singing and the use of smoke and flares.
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It could be tempting after two decades of establishing a successful reputation in a particular sector of the law to continue to plough the same furrow and enjoy the degree of regularity that brings. Not so for Neil Hay who pivoted, as he puts it, from 20 years working in legal aid defence toward a n
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Ampersand’s Aidan O’Neill QC and Laura-Anne van der Westhuizen were in attendance at the Legal 500 UK 2020 Awards winner’s event in London to celebrate their successes in winning “Scottish Bar Senior of the Year” and “Scottish Bar Junior of the Year” respect
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A guide aimed at making Scotland’s laws clear, accessible and easy to understand has been republished. First published in 2016, Drafting Matters! aims to help the lawyers who draft legislation understand the important factors which underpin every single word of a bill.
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The latest novel in Willie McIntyre's Best Defence series hits shelves next month. In the ninth book in the tartan noir series, Stitch Up, everything is coming up roses for Robbie Munro, newly married and living in the country with wife and child.
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Scott Milne Thorntons has been named as one of the country’s top performing legal companies in this year's Chambers UK Legal Directory.
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Pictured: chairman Jack Robertson (front centre, holding award) with the team from Thorntons after winning the title of Best Scottish Employer 2016.
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