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Two new members have been appointed to fill vacant positions on the Scottish Sentencing Council. Dr Hannah Graham has been appointed as a lay member of the council, replacing Professor Neil Hutton. Dr Graham is a senior lecturer in criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at

Michelle Essen outlines what the election manifestos have in store for the VAT Reverse Charge, the Apprenticeship Levy and Skills Shortage, and Modern Methods of Construction.  The political parties have published their manifestos for the December 2019 General Election, setting out their stalls

The Trump Organization has paid a £225,000 legal bill with the Scottish government after losing a court battle over a windfarm near the company's Aberdeenshire golf course. US President Donald Tump's firm agreed to settle the legal bill before a dispute over the costs went to adjudication.

Morton Fraser has been reappointed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide legal services in Scotland for the next three years. The reappointment follows a competitive tendering process and will see Morton Fraser provide services in various areas including litigation, property, employment, plann

A contractor which claimed the Scottish government acted unlawfully in giving taxpayers' money to a competitor in the purchase of a Highland industrial yard has had a £25 million damages action dismissed. LC Management Services (Scotland) Ltd claimed that the financial awards to Global En

The last day to buy tickets for the Tumbling Lassie Ball is Thursday 26 September 2019.

Downing Street was yesterday forced to repudiate comments made by a Number 10 insider questioning the impartiality of Scotland's judiciary in the wake of the Inner House's judgment in Cherry. An anonymous Downing Street source told The Sun: "We note that last week the High Court in London did not ru

Lindsays has announced that its contract with Scottish Athletics to support the cross country season has been renewed for the next four years.

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,

Yvonne Brady, head of restructuring and business advisory at Shepherd and Wedderburn, has been named best professional in business at the Scottish Women’s Awards 2019. Ms Brady, who earlier this year was also appointed as the firm’s head of diversity, development and inclusion, was recog

Glasgow firm set to take on the Great Scottish Run for local hospice charity.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has been appointed to all six lots of the new Scottish Government Legal Services Framework following a competitive tender process. The four-year framework will be open to Scottish government public sector organisations, and is effective from 1 August 2019.

Back in March, my colleague Tom Stocker discussed the findings of a House of Lords select committee which reviewed the 2010 Bribery Act, and specifically how businesses self-report suspected cases of bribery and corruption. While describing the act as “international gold standard” with l

A reception has been held at the Scottish Land Court to mark the donation by Lord Gill of his agricultural law library to the court. Even in retirement, Lord Gill remains the foremost authority on agricultural law in Scotland, with his magisterial work on the subject now in its fourth edition.

After almost a decade of constant change, the evolution of the Scottish liability claims landscape shows no signs of slowing down, according to Clyde & Co's annual Scottish Liability Conference in Glasgow. The conference explored liability issues affecting UK insurers and their insureds. Chaired