Macdonald Henderson has advised Inspire Scotland, the Glasgow-based residential childcare group, on a £4.5 million refinancing and growth package. Inspire Scotland has agreed £4.5 million in refinance and growth funding with ThinCats, the alternative lender to mid-sized businesses.
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Denise Laverty has been promoted to partner in the family law team at Gilson Gray. Ms Laverty, who joined Gilson Gray as a legal director in June 2019, has over 29 years’ experience in all aspects of family law with particular experience in cross UK border jurisdictional issues. She has a spec
Solicitor Anne McSherry has been appointed as Cairn Energy's first new company secretary in 22 years. Duncan Wood retired from the role after having served in it since the 1990s.
Digby Brown Solicitors last night won the prestigious Catastrophic Injury Team of the Year award. The firm was shortlisted alongside seven other firms at the 2020 Personal Injury Awards – an annual event that recognises the efforts and success of the UK’s top law firms.
A youth programme unique to Scotland has helped transform the lives of 106,000 young people in the past three years. The CashBack for Communities scheme reinvests seized criminal assets into community projects which support young people into positive destinations, diverting some away from potentiall
Benjamin Bestgen takes a look this week at robotic weapons and the law. See last week's primer here. Killer robots, or “Lethal Autonomous Weapons” (LAWs), have been in our popular conscience for decades. Science fiction fans are familiar with Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics and mos
So, today it’s the beleaguered staff at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service balloting on strike action. Yesterday, it was the hard-pressed members of the Edinburgh and Glasgow bar associations taking action. Both of these actions, to which Scottish Legal News is entirely sympathetic
International lawyers are drafting a plan for a new offence of ecocide. The panel organising the initiative is chaired by Professor Philippe Sands QC of University College London and Florence Mumba, a former Internation Criminal Court judge.
Dr Joe Morrow QC, Lord Lyon, has been appointed Squadron Colonel of the 32nd Signal Regiment, 2nd (City of Dundee) Signal Squadron. His new role is to promote the work of the Signal Squadron and in particular its presence in the Dundee area.
Richard Pike has been promoted to partner at Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) in Edinburgh. Mr Pike is a dispute resolution private client lawyer, focusing on disputes about trusts and inheritance. He trained with the firm and qualified in 2008.
A group of lawyers in Myanmar was given a first-hand account of how the Scottish criminal justice system has adapted to Covid-19. The Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Ronnie Renucci QC, spoke to more than 50 lawyers in a virtual event, part of the MyJustice programme which aims to improve acce
The independent public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh will be “thorough and fearless”, its chair has said. In a video statement to mark the opening of the inquiry, Lord Bracadale set out the background to the inquiry, its purpose, how it will be carried out and how people can keep
A number of changes have been made at the Scottish Criminal Bar Association, where Tony Lenehan has taken over as president. The senior position had been held by Ronnie Renucci QC, who was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in August and stepped down from the SCBA after two years.
Dundee-based solicitor Murray Etherington has been nominated as a future president of the Law Society of Scotland. The nomination covers a three-year term, beginning as vice president from 31 May 2021, becoming president the following year, and then serving a third year as past president.
Roz Boynton details the key compensation points in a case in which the claimant was severely injured in a road traffic accident in 2013. As a lawyer specialising in complex and serious injury cases, I was delighted to read the landmark judgment of the English Court of Appeal in Swift v Carpenter (20
