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Scottish Conservative MSP Professor Adam Tomkins has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson must resign if he is unwilling to follow the law. A bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed on Friday.
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MacRoberts welcomed 10 new trainees to the firm last week on the same day it announced a raft of promotions across the business. Banking lawyer Fiona Armour has been promoted to legal director and Dawn MacPherson, Jamie Duff and Victoria McMurray have all been promoted to senior associate.
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Increased levels of transactional work, coupled with strong activity in ports and demand for risk management and dispute resolution services is driving growth for shipping and transport specialists at Brodies LLP. Recent work has included advising on funding the construction of new vessels, with a c
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New legislation is to be introduced to provide more protection for service animals such as police dogs and horses, otherwise known as Finn's Law in honour of police dog Finn who was attacked by a suspect. Rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon met Finn and his owner police handler David Wardell.
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The Scottish government is to extend a seven-day limit on unsuitable temporary accommodation to protect people at risk of homelessness. Under new legislation, anyone facing homelessness will spend no longer than a week in accommodation like bed and breakfasts.
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Thorntons is celebrating the appointment of eight newly-qualified solicitors following a two-year traineeship. There will be four new faces in the Dundee office as Katy Williams joins the intellectual property team, Vicki Alexander joins commercial property, Katie Fulton joins the family law team an
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Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported another strong year for deals, with the value of transactions rising by 10 per cent (£13.4 billion) in the 2019 financial year to 30 April. The team completed 167 deals with a combined value of £145.4bn, up from 162 de
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Rooney Nimmo has announced the appointment of Agne Zasinaite. Ms Zasinaite, who obtained her LLB from Dundee University and the diploma from Strathclyde University, joined the team as a trainee solicitor in February 2019.
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Three solicitors from Shoosmiths' office in Edinburgh swapped their desks for trainers on Friday when they headed to picturesque Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway to participate in the annual Buccleuch Property Challenge. The event this year raised funds for the Seaman School, a charity com
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Scotland’s first black professor, a Windrush generation Jamaican who grew up in the racist Britain of the fifties and sixties, has told an audience of lawyers and other professionals in Edinburgh that they must have a "sense of belonging" in order to succeed. Sir Geoff Palmer, an eminent brewi
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Lindsay Darroch, one of Scotland’s most respected property lawyers, has joined Aberdein Considine to lead its expansion across the Tayside region. Mr Darroch has taken up a new role as partner with the firm, with responsibility for the firm’s existing Tayside office and its expansion int
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The corporate team at Harper Macleod has advised on the sale of wind turbine installation business Windhoist Group to European fund manager STAR Capital for an undisclosed consideration. Windhoist, an owner-managed business which is headquartered in Scotland but has subsidiaries in Morocco, Ireland,
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In Aberdeen this week more than 36,000 global oil and gas professionals have gathered to debate, lecture, promote and celebrate the achievements of the energy industry at the biennial SPE Offshore Europe conference and exhibition. Offshore Europe is being hosted for the first time in the city’
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Zoe Calderwood and Dario Demarco have been made senior solicitors in Blackadders' Glasgow office. Ms Calderwood works in the firm's commercial property team while Mr Demarco is part of the corporate and commercial team.
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Franchise lawyer Andrew Fraser has established a new boutique practice – Albany Fraser Solicitors – in Glasgow. The firm aims to be one of the leading sources of professional franchising advice in the UK both for people looking to grow their business through franchising and for those loo
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