Leading players in Scotland’s property industry have joined forces to demand government action to protect jobs and ensure the nation’s housing market can recover strongly from the coronavirus crisis. Representing a cross-section of the industry supporting the buying and selling of proper
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A couple of months ago, the biggest issues William Grant and Sons general counsel Greg Bargeton had to deal with were enforcing the company’s intellectual property rights and coming up with ways to prepare the business for whatever Brexit might throw at it. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit an
Macdonald Henderson has advised EHC Energy Limited, the distributor of electric heating and hot water products, on the employee buyout of the company from existing shareholders/directors, Bill Walters and David Stevenson. The transaction was supported by acquisition finance from Clydesdale Bank.
Robert Pirrie WS, chief executive of the WS Society, tells the story of William Roughead, the Edinburgh lawyer who became the father of the ‘true crime’ genre and the celebrated trial for murder of Miss Madelaine Smith. Amongst the many remarkable collections of the Signet Library,
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has welcomed a recent Court of Session decision on an appeal case regarding an eligibility determination. The lawyer was appealing against the SLCC’s decision to accept issues of complaint against him for investigation. The appellant submitted th
Holyrood's Justice Committee is backing Scottish government plans to change the law on deciding parent-child contact in family breakdown cases, but is warning that it may make little practical difference to the lives of children unless it is properly resourced. The Children (Scotland) Bill was intro
Tributes have been paid to Derek Ogg QC, who has passed away at the age of 65. Tony Graham QC, director of Optimum Advocates, Mr Ogg's stable, looked back on his career, noting that he took silk after only 10 years in practice.
An advocate who was alleged to have acted inappropriately in commercial proceedings regarding location-based dating apps has succeeded in having one of four complaints made against him quashed, with the other three remaining eligible for investigation. Andrew Smith QC appealed against a decisio
Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee have launched a call for views on the Scottish government's plans to update hate crime laws. MSPs want to know whether the public, including groups who may be directly impacted by the new law, support the proposals, or whether some parts o
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been successful in defending a ‘leave to appeal’ case in the Inner House of the Court of Session. The complainer sought leave to appeal against the SLCC’s decision to reject both issues of his complaint against a solicitor as tota
Criminal barrister Joanna Hardy shares her experience of remote courts in England. “I haven’t met the defendant, Your Honour,” I tell a screen in my kitchen. Silence. “Can… can you hear me?” My words echo through the judge’s laptop in a courtroom three mile
Regulations to allow a limited number of short-term prisoners nearing the end of their time in custody to be released early have been laid in Parliament to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme is limited to those sentenced to 18 months or less and who on 4 May have 90 days or less left t
Brodies LLP has announced eight new partners in its latest round of promotions and appointments.
Gilson Gray has appointed commercial property expert Mark Sabey as legal director in the firm’s Glasgow real estate division. Originally from London, he is an English-qualified solicitor with more than 17 years’ experience in commercial property, land management and renewables.
Ruth Croman, managing partner of Macnabs, has recently been accredited by FLAGS as a family law arbitrator. A well-respected family lawyer, she is a member of the Family Law Association, Consensus Collaboration Scotland and is accredited as a specialist in both family law and child law.