Inksters has grown its consultant solicitor practice during the pandemic and opened a new office on the Isle of Eigg. The firm recently celebrated 22 years in business and now focusses solely on the consultancy model, which sees all of its solicitors benefit financially directly from the fruits of t
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Lindsays has welcomed Mike Piggot to its team in Dundee as a solicitor offering dispute resolution and litigation services to businesses and individuals. Mr Piggot studied and trained in the city before entering the profession. He also worked for several years with the Dundee Citizens Advice Bu
Pinsent Masons has announced an employee rewards package for the last financial year and confirmed repayment of the UK government furlough money, The Lawyer reports. The firm said it was restoring salaries to the 98 per cent of staff who took part in its reduced working hours scheme in 2020 and that
The long-awaited relinquishment and assignation procedure in respect of 1991 Act agricultural tenancies came into force on 28 February 2021. Simon Boendermaker explains the details. Relinquishment
Thursday 3 June 2021, 7.30 – 8.30pm The Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship in Scotland is delighted to welcome Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness to an evening of questions and discussion.
A student from the Aberdeen Law Project has helped a client whose stepfather died intestate to find an heir. Stepchildren do not inherit on intestacy in Scotland which meant that, as no known relatives could be identified, the Crown had a right to the stepfather’s estate.
James Wolffe QC and Alison Di Rollo QC are to resign once replacements for them are found. A survey by Scottish Legal News in March found that a majority of lawyers would like to see the Lord Advocate's dual role split so that his political and prosecutorial functions are entirely separate.
Terra Firma’s Robert Sutherland has been appointed as the Scottish editor for Garner’s Environmental Law. Garner's is the leading environmental law loose-leaf publication containing a comprehensive collection of UK acts, statutory instruments, Scottish acts and Scottish statutory instrum
We humans are never lacking in our enthusiasm for crazy ‘investment’ ideas. Around four hundred years ago the Dutch managed to work themselves into a frenzy over tulip bulbs. At the height of the hysteria one bulb of Semper Augustus apparently changed hands in exchange for 12 acres of la
Pinsent Masons has appointed Glasgow-based corporate oil and gas specialist Rosalie Chadwick as global head of oil and gas. With a 20-year track record in leading multi-million-pound mergers and acquisitions and capital markets deals in the UKCS and across international energy hubs, Ms Chadwick will
The Lord Justice General, Lord Carloway has appointed Sheriff Iain Fleming of the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin to become the new sheriff member on the Scottish Sentencing Council. Sheriff Fleming was appointed as a part-time sheriff in 2005 and as a full-time sheriff in 2014, following a c
Lawyers Janet McIntyre and Colin Brown have been elected president and vice president respectively of the Fife Chamber of Commerce. Ms McIntyre, a commercial property partner at Thorntons, was elected at the group’s AGM yesterday.
With most of Scotland’s hospitality sector reopened after lockdown, employers will need to consider what impact new ways of working will have on the mental health of the workforce, writes Audrey Ferrie. Employers should be looking to put in place support mechanisms and creating a culture
Advocate Niall McCluskey has raised concerns over lockdown restrictions, questioning whether current measures are proportionate. Speaking to STV News, he said: “People who are in Glasgow at the moment can’t travel to a level two area so they’re actually worse off than when everyone
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 imposed a temporary halt on the use of statutory demands and winding up petitions where the tenant is unable to pay its bills because of coronavirus. As a result two uniquely Scottish remedies available to landlord creditors have come into the spotlig
