Addleshaw Goddard has bolstered its corporate and commercial team in Aberdeen with three new senior recruits this summer. Jennifer Cham, who comes in as a managing associate, and new legal directors Gemma Hills and Emma Sinclair have all joined the office, strengthening the firm's coverage in the ci
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Levy & McRae has made new appointments to its property team. Paul Kenneth, who has worked in major UK and international firms joins as a partner. He has particular expertise in commercial work, real estate, finance and renewables. He will be working across both Levy & McRae&r
Councils and education providers are now legally required to make period products available free of charge to anyone who needs them after the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act came into force today. Since 2017, the Scottish government has invested more than £27 million to fund ac
The rule of law in Hungary is under serious threat as Viktor Orbán’s government constantly abuses its authority to influence the courts, a senior judge has told The Observer. Csaba Vasvári, a senior judge at the Budapest metropolitan court, said that he and other members of the j
The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, visited Safe Harbour Inverclyde last week, a charity which supports people to improve their emotional wellbeing.
Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed six new lawyers to its rural team, including accredited agricultural law specialists Petra Grunenberg and Ellen Eunson. Ms Grunenberg, who previously led the rural team at Blackadders, will join as a partner in September, while Ms Eunson has already joined as a
A tool designed to mitigate risks for solicitors has won the Law Society of Scotland's 2022 Innovation Cup. Mary-Jay Morton, a senior associate solicitor at Laurie & Company in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, has won with an easy-to-use key dates calendar. It is designed to save time, stress, and worry
Morton Fraser has reported an increase in net profit of over 40 per cent in a record-breaking year that saw the independent law firm record revenues of £23.9 million, a 16 per cent increase on the previous year. The record results allowed the firm to deliver a staff bonus pool of over £6
A judge of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has quashed a First-tier Tribunal decision that a letting agency was in breach of the Letting Agent Code of Practice by not carrying out a check on a prospective tenant’s right to reside in the United Kingdom. Countrywide Residential Lettings Ltd, tra
Aberdeen staff at CMS have welcomed a new addition to the team this week: a colony of bees within their own beehive. The new honey-producing friends have been sited on the grounds of the firm’s Queen’s Road office after CMS announced it would set up hives across UK and other internationa
Douglas J. Cusine comments on the "bizarre" suggestion of academics that juries should no longer be directed to take into account the body language of witnesses. My premise is that we should approach conclusions drawn from mock trials with caution, and governments, in particular, should be wary of c
UK businesses can expect a crackdown on furlough fraud after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) revealed that almost 14,000 whistleblowers had come forward with information about misuse of the scheme. In total, officials received 13,775 tip-offs from employees about fraud against the furlough scheme co
Govan Law Centre (GLC) comments on the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill. We are grateful to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee to be invited to give evidence in person on 20 September 2022 at Holyrood.
The man who was appointed as Scotland's first period officer is to take legal action after he was removed from his post, The Courier reports. Jason Grant, who took up the role only two weeks ago, is instructing Dundee firm MML Legal.
France violated the rights of French women it refuses to repatriate from detention camps in north-east Syria, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Grand Chamber judgment, the court held by a majority that there had been a violation of Article 3 § 2 of Protocol No