Pictured (L to R): Douglas Roberts (Corporate Partner at Lindsays ), Dr.Dayna Galloway, Kate Wyatt, and Iain Penman (dispute resolution and litigation director at Lindsays) Lindsays has been announced as a key sponsor in Abertay University’s Dare Academy games design competition.
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Ledingham Chalmers' Linda Tinson and colleagues are tackling the Great Glen Challenge in aid of RSABI next month. Established as a one-day team challenge for rural businesses and organisations, teams of four people will compete against each other along designated stages between Fort Augustus and For
A defence lawyer has condemned the recent review into Scotland's legal aid system, suggesting its author lacks a “basic understanding of the realities of business”. Writing in The Journal, Ken Dalling, a member of the Law Society of Scotland Council, said Martyn Evans had made the m
Pictured (L-R): Back - Steven Drake, Colin Graham, Thomas Redpath, Stuart Mackie, Anneli Spence. Front - Lynsay McFarlane, Megan Sweeney, Chris Gardiner, Joanne Clancy, Lynne Macintyre Thorntons has made 10 promotions – two senior solicitors have been promoted to associates and nine solicitors
Scotland has a new Public Guardian and Accountant of Court with the appointment of Fiona Brown, who succeeds Sandra McDonald. Ms Brown has been Deputy Public Guardian and Accountant of Court (AoC) since 2015 having moved to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) after a career in the court service
A family from Paisley has secured damages of £247,000 after losing their mother to the asbestos disease mesothelioma. This is the first time in Scotland in which a case has been successfully pursued on behalf of someone who suffered from secondary exposure to asbestos from their spouse’s
A recent widely reported settled claim by a hospitality worker highlighted the controversy that continues to persist with Zero Hour Contracts (ZHC). Kenny Scott considers the issues that often surround this form of employment arrangement and highlights why ZHC’s still have an import
The judgment in the English case of Owens v Owens was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs Owens sought a divorce from her husband on the basis of his behaviour. She said that his behaviour was such that she could not reasonably be expected to cohabit with him. Unusually, Mr Owens sought
Top road traffic lawyer Graham Walker has been injured in a cycling accident in France, The Herald reports. Mr Walker, 60, of roadtrafficlaw.com, was in intensive care after he fell from his bike in a "freak accident" in which he hit a root on a woodland cylce path and landed on his head, a family f
Pictured (L-R): Claire Thornber, Nicola Gonnella and Claire McCracken. Weightmans has appointed three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.
The Lord President, Lord Carloway, head of the Scottish judiciary and Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division in England & Wales, have agreed a new judicial protocol which will provide for the direct exchange of information between judges in intra-UK cross-border cases involv
Harper Macleod has continued the growth of its Inverness office with the arrival of a new senior associate. Kenneth Campbell has joined the firm from DWF in Edinburgh and will enhance Harper Macleod’s presence across the Highlands, particularly in relation to commercial disputes.
Anderson Strathern has hired communications industry stalwart Beth Cameron to a newly created communications and public relations manager role. Ms Cameron brings over 20 years of public relations and communications experience to the firm, having started her career in advertising and brand management
If the bar continues to fail to attract women it will "wither from the roots up", Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC has said. In an interview with the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG), Ms Grahame said that while 65 per cent of law students are female across Scotland's
A lawyer’s lifelong passion for helping the careers of others will be commemorated in a scholarship set up to encourage students from less advantaged backgrounds to enter the legal profession. The Kirk Murdoch Memorial Fund will offer financial support, professional mentoring, work placements
