Balfour and Manson has promoted Adelle Walker to senior associate and Lauren Smith to associate. Ms Walker joined the firm in April 2019 as an associate, before which she was a senior solicitor with Digby Brown and a solicitor with Thorntons. She has significant experience in personal inju
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Immigration specialist John Vassiliou has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn amid rising demand from clients for business and personal immigration advice following the UK’s departure from the European Union. Mr Vassiliou, who joins the firm from McGill & Co, where he was a partner, brings 10 y
Animal welfare campaigns charity OneKind has welcomed the introduction of legal protection for mountain hares. As of today, it will be illegal to intentionally kill, injure, or take mountain hares at any time unless a licence is obtained.
With a father who was a procurator fiscal and two older siblings who had entered the legal profession too, meal-time conversations in Calum MacNeill’s childhood home were very much focused on the law. Given that background, it is perhaps unsurprising that the young Mr MacNeill was determined t
Dentons has appointed Claire Armstrong to the newly-created role of Scotland managing partner. Working alongside Glasgow's Alison Bryce and Edinburgh's Kirsti Olson, she will drive forward the firm's strategy to be the leading international law firm in Scotland.
New research co-authored by Strathclyde University's Professor Cyrus Tata shines light on the sentencing of causing death by driving offences. Published by the Scottish Sentencing Council, the report of the research study, the first of its kind in Scotland, investigates public knowledge and attitude
A medical law expert is challenging a Scottish government mesh review amid fears patient records could be changed, The Sunday Post reports. Alison Britton, professor of healthcare and medical law at Glasgow Caledonian University, has spoken of shared patient concerns over government plans to modify
Everyone's world was turned upside down in 2020, with unpredictable events throughout the year. The uncertainty has impacted on the work of personal injury lawyers. While the country has been in lockdown with fewer cars on the roads and many employees no longer attending at their places of work, you
Solicitor David George Frew has passed away at the age of 66. Mr Frew's career began as a detective constable with Strathclyde Police and the Scottish Crime Squad. He then obtained an LLB and diploma from the University of Strathclyde before eventually founding his own firm, Frew and Co Solicitors.
Innes & Mackay has appointed Laura Cormack as a director. She takes up the post after joining the firm over a decade ago as a legal secretary.
As solicitors come to terms with the new guidance on price transparency which finally came into effect on 31 January 2021, there’s a certain unease about its impact on solicitor estate agents. You see, the guidance requires firms to publish their fees and other costs of carrying out estate age
The Scottish Land Commission’s National Student Award 2021 has opened for entries. Designed to encourage young people to get involved in land reform and contribute to the commission’s work, the single award of £1,000 is open to all students studying at a Scottish academic instituti
Financial services specialist Caroline Stevenson has joined Burness Paull as head of its dedicated FS regulatory team. The firm has recruited Ms Stevenson to take advantage of a market in Scotland that has continued to perform strongly throughout the pandemic, but which is facing a new regulatory la
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has made two senior promotions. Richard Pike has been made a partner while Fiona McLaughlin has been promoted to senior associate.
If the past few months have taught us anything it is that the right medicine can change everything – so who better than a lawyer with a background in immunology to experiment with a new practice model developed to benefit the community? Blair Melville, 33, is the solicitor behind Teneu Legal,
