Burges Salmon’s corporate finance team has advised the majority shareholders of market-leading UK timber producer BSW Timber on its sale to private equity firm Endless. With its headquarters located in Earlston, BSW is the UK’s largest integrated forestry and sawmilling business, with ei
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Pinsent Masons has been crowned Scottish 'Diversity Champion' for a second year by equality campaign charity Stonewall. Construction sector specialist and senior associate Craig Macphee collected the award on behalf of colleagues at a celebration dinner at the Virgin Money Banking Hall in Glasgow la
Huda al-Sarari has been named as the 2020 winner of the Martin Ennals Award for her work exposing a network of secret prisons in Yemen. The award recognises the work of outstanding human rights defenders. Since 2015, UAE-backed Yemeni security forces have carried out thousands of human rights violat
When Pinsent Masons was last night crowned Stonewall Scotland’s Workplace Diversity Champion for the second year running, it was in no small part down to the work done by senior associate Craig Macphee. Indeed, with the construction sector specialist promoting the firm’s LGBT inclusion w
A photographer who said his reputation has been damaged in a fight over a nude photoshoot at a castle in Aberdeenshire has failed in an attempt to take the case to the Supreme Court. Howard Kennedy had wanted to sue the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) for up to £50,000 after claiming stateme
Some of Scotland’s most experienced lawyers working in the field of EU citizens rights will be speaking at a seminar in Edinburgh next month. The seminar aims to provide lawyers and others with essential training and updates about the rights that EU citizens in Scotland now have after Brexit.
The climate emergency has risen to the top of the UK’s political agenda in recent years, with green issues set to become one of the biggest political hot potatoes of the decade. Last year, the UK legislated for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This was recommended by the Committee on
Lord Woolman has been appointed to the Inner House of the Court of Session. The judge has been appointed to the Second Division while Lord Pentland and Lord Doherty will also be appointed to the Inner House and will begin sitting in July and December respectively.
A new judge has honoured his late mother by taking her maiden name for his title, Lord Harrower. Sean Smith QC was sworn in as a Senator of the College of Justice at a ceremony led by Lord Carloway, the Lord President in Parliament House.
A mere "one-and-a-half cheers" for the Inner House's five-judge ruling in Pert v McCaffrey, in which there was "no need" to invoke a doctrine of enrichment's subsidiarity in an analysis that was "much less sophisticated than it needed to be", writes Professor MacQueen. One cheerThe decision of a cou
Judge Tim Eicke will be delivering the 2020 Macfadyen Lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 26 March at 6:00 pm. The lecture will outline the existing Convention caselaw in relation to the environment and consider its potential and its limitations – both substantive and procedural &ndas
The Roman delict of iniuria is the focus of the first lecture in a three-part series delivered by Paul du Plessis, professor of Roman law at the University of Edinburgh. The Civil Law in Three Acts is the subject of this year's Alan Watson Memorial Lecture series.
The journalist and legal commentator, Joshua Rozenberg QC (hon), will launch his new book in Scotland at an event chaired by the Faculty of Advocates' Mungo Bovey QC. Mr Rozenberg is guest speaker at a Literary Lunch by BOOKMARK book festival at Ballathie House Hotel, Perthshire, on Sunday, 14
John Campbell QC has been appointed as Scotland’s only representative panel arbitrator at the newly formed Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA), in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has grown out of a series of conferences and discussions within the Authentication in Art Mediation Board and the
Some 58 per cent of women in the legal profession say they or women they work with have experienced inappropriate comments from male colleagues relating to their gender, new research has found. Almost half, 46 per cent, reported that either they or one of their colleagues had not complained about di
