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Dear Editor, The Faculty of Advocates is, understandably, opposed to the suggested independent regulator for legal services in Scotland. I am not and never have been a member of Faculty and so I am independent in the true sense. I am not in the Dean’s pocket, nor is he in mine.

Burges Salmon has announced the appointment of Amy Cornelius as director and Gregor Hayworth as senior associate in the firm’s dispute resolution team based in Edinburgh. Prior to joining Burges Salmon, Ms Cornelius held a range of senior roles, including senior associate, commercial dispute r

A doctor fighting for the rights of children, a nun helping destitute women and a Zambian man looking to end marginalisation are all in the running for this year's Robert Burns Humanitarian Award (RBHA).

Shoosmiths has opened an office in Brussels and recruited experienced lawyer Kiran Desai to meet growing client demand for European Union competition, regulatory and trade law advice. Dual-qualified in Belgium and in England and Wales, Mr Desai was previously the EU competition law leader at EY Law

Gilson Gray has appointed Richard Shepherd as a partner in its property team. Based in Aberdeen, Mr Shepherd joins the firm from James & George Collie, where he has been the managing partner since 2014.

EY Law is planning to treble in size in the UK and Ireland in the coming three years in a move that could see it recruit some 800 extra lawyers, Law.com reports. The legal division of the accountancy giant currently has 200 UK lawyers but Philip Goodstone, head of EY Law in the UK and Ireland, said

Paman Singh, of WorkNest, has been recognised as an accredited specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland. Mr Singh has obtained the accreditation in the shortest time on record – it is usually reserved for solicitors who have at least five years’ standing. However, due

Hundreds of Kenyans will be allowed to take legal action at the Court of Session against one of the world's major tea producers. Current and former employees of Finlays, whose roots lie in 18th century Glasgow, allege they suffered severe health problems as a result of working on farms operated by J

Levy & McRae has launched L&M MediLaw, a new offering focused on bringing expertise to medical negligence claims. The venture will be led by senior associate Elizabeth Rose who is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in medical negligence claims. Ms Rose and her team wil

A court in Hong Kong relied on a ruling by judges including Lord Reed to jail a member of the territory's parliament. Fernando Cheung, 64, a former Labour Party member of the Hong Kong legislative council (LegCo), was imprisoned for three weeks over a 45-minute anti-Beijing chant he delivered in 202

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, has appointed Sheriff Pino Di Emidio as director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland. Sheriff Di Emidio will take up the post on 1 April 2022 for a period of three years.

The recent changes to the Highway Code have been widely reported. However, the initial worries of chaos on UK roads, gridlock as city traffic is paralysed by cyclists hogging the roads, or pedestrians making a dive in front of traffic in crash for cash bids have all gone unfounded. Quite frankly, no

Julian Assange should be taken out of prison and placed under house arrest, according to a United Nations expert. Mr Assange has been held at HMP Belmarsh in south-east London since his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy in April 2019, where he had spent seven years in order to avoid extradition.

I am delighted to have been asked to provide a review for David Flint’s latest book – his 23rd publication, and that includes Stair and Halsbury. Even for a full-time academic that would constitute an impressive body of work; for a busy solicitor like Mr Flint it is nothing short of incr

A preschool in north-eastern Ukraine was hit on Friday morning with widely-banned cluster munitions while civilians took shelter inside, killing three of them, including a child, and wounding another child, Amnesty International has said. The attack appears to have been carried out by Russian forces