Pinsent Masons has completed a move into new offices in the centre of Edinburgh’s financial district. More than 200 lawyers and business operations colleagues will have access to the 25,000 sq ft premises in Capital Square in Morrison Street where Pinsent Masons continues to adopt an agile app
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Shoosmiths is to move its Edinburgh office to a new landmark development, marking 10 years of success in Scotland. The firm has been based at Saltire Court, Castle Terrace since 2012 and has expanded its practice significantly in that time. It is now to relocate to the contemporary mixed-use Haymark
Anderson Strathern has been re-appointed to the new APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges) Legal Services Framework. Anderson Strathern’s position as first ranked supplier means universities and colleges in Scotland are required to approach the firm first for direct contract
Legal and estate agency Pacitti Jones has acquired Dennistoun estate agency Tip Top Homes.
Solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Scottish Ballet. Ms Ahmad-Ali was recently made head of legal for Europe at UnitedHealthcare, part of the UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 500 company. Before this, she worked at The Weir Group PLC and Cigna, wher
Balfour Beatty has been awarded the contract for the first stage of the Scottish Prison Service’s (SPS) project for the design and construction of HMP Highland, designed by BakerHicks.
Geoff Clarke QC Geoff Clarke QC of Compass Chambers has passed away.
The start of February marks the beginning of LGBT+ History Month, and this year’s theme is ‘Politics in Art: The Arc is Long’. To celebrate, members of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s LGBTA+ Focus Group will highlight one piece of iconic LGBTQ+ artwork each week, whether television
TLT has appointed Karen Hunt as a legal director. She joins from Pinsent Masons and is based in Glasgow. Ms Hunt has over 25 years’ experience in commercial property. She has worked on many high profile investment and development deals. She also has extensive experience in managing large
Women have been banned from the front seats of trucks in Uganda after being branded a road hazard. Ugandan authorities have claimed male truck drivers are liable to be distracted by women wearing revealing clothing in their driver's cabin, Kenya's The Star reports.
Legislation to end the harmful practice of setting ‘glue traps’ is to be brought forward by the Scottish government in order to protect animal welfare. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWC) undertook a review of the use of glue traps and concluded that there are significant anima
Harper Macleod has been appointed as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Debt Resolution Services framework. CCS is an executive agency of the UK government, and is the UK’s largest public procurement organisation. It supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial va
Professor Conor Gearty, of LSE, has surveyed the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Lord Reed's leadership, suggesting that it has "reverted to an approach rooted in legal formalism, an extremely narrow reading of the rule of law, while displaying an old-school lack of interest in the lived ex
A woman who travelled from London to the Isle of Mull to take the UK's easiest driving test has admitted she still failed. Constance Kampfner wrote in The Times this week of her mission to take an easier test after failing the first time in London.
Peers in the Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill to scrap the Vagrancy Act across England and Wales. Already repealed in Scotland, the 1824 legislation is still used to criminalise people for rough sleeping or begging.
