Search: Me/cfs

Pinsent Masons has launched an Armed Forces Network (AFN) to support veterans, reservists and service families, underlining the firm’s reputation as a supportive and inclusive employer, writes Iain Brown. As an army reservist, it is an issue close to my heart and I was delighted a proposal to

Cameron Wong McDermott (lecturer in social change, University of Glasgow) and Nicole Marshall (GO Justice Centre manager) write about the university's collaboration with The Marie Trust.  At the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice), part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Law, w

More than three quarters of people (77 per cent) who shared their experiences with the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry said the scandal impacted their health significantly, according to a newly published paper. The stories, published as part of In Your Own Words, the inquiry’s listening project

Baroness Harman KC has warned that LinkedIn is being used as a “dating app” by predatory barristers. The former Labour deputy leader and ex-chair of the party conducted an independent review into bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the English bar, commissioned by the Bar Counc

Burges Salmon has announced the appointment of Lillian Mackenzie as a partner in its projects department, based in the firm’s Edinburgh office. Ms Mackenzie's practice spans infrastructure finance, major outsourcings, and public-private partnerships (PPP/PFI), with a track record of advising s

A group of homeowners in Motherwell have been successful in an action before the sheriff seeking to interdict the owners of a neighbouring corner property from erecting a boundary wall and electric gate at the front of their driveway after establishing the continued existence of a real burden over t

More people impacted by drugs have received support after the Scottish government funded 225 community-based projects across the country. The National Drugs Mission Funds distributed almost £13 million in grants in 2024-25 through the Corra Foundation. In 2024-25, there were more than 51,000 i

Thorntons has welcomed 19 new trainee solicitors.

The English legal press had their knives out for the Law Society of Scotland this past week. This was on the back of its announcement of a deferral of at least a further two years (to add to the existing 15 years since the introduction of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010) in bringing about alt

A UK tax tribunal judge has confirmed that he used artificial intelligence to help draft a ruling on a disclosure application, in what appears to be the first published UK judicial decision of its kind. The case, VP Evans (as executrix of HB Evans, deceased) & Ors v The Commissioners for HMRC [2

In almost 15 years at the helm of Lindsays, Alasdair Cummings has overseen impressive growth. Six mergers have made it a firm of four cities, with turnover tripling to almost £30m. The statistics are strong. Amongst them, though, is one of which he is particularly proud. “On October 1, w

A sheriff has awarded £3,216 in damages to a lorry driver who was injured when a learner motorcyclist collided with the back of his lorry and he fell from the steps outside the cab after he rejected an argument that the force involved in the crash was too small to cause any injury. Pursuer Joh

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) is saying farewell to partner Andrew Wilson who has announced his retirement following nearly four decades of service. Mr Wilson has been with WJM since 1988, becoming a partner in 1992, and serving the firm for 37 years.

NHS Fife’s legal team acted negligently in handling a legal argument in the board’s tribunal battle with nurse Sandie Peggie, a panel has ruled. The case, already running for two months at a cost of at least £220,500, was thrown into further wrangling earlier this month when the bo

A lord ordinary has ruled that a claim by an Indian national seeking asylum in the UK on the basis of his homosexuality could not be regarded as clearly unfounded for the purposes of section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 after finding that it was not impossible that a tribun