Burness Paull has appointed real estate lawyer David Stewart as a partner, bringing the firm's total to 86 partners across its Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. Mr Stewart joins the firm from Morton Fraser and brings more than 20 years of experience, with a particularly strong background in i
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Projects supporting young people are to receive up to a total of £20 million of funding recovered from the proceeds of crime.
An Edinburgh-based paralegal is the first to be awarded the Law Society of Scotland’s accredited paralegal status specialising in immigration law. Lily Li Pryde, a paralegal with John Pryde & Co SSC in Edinburgh, received the accreditation earlier this month. Successful applicants must dem
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has refused an appeal by the assignee of a company that supplied halal chicken meat to restaurants against the dismissal of its claim that a former director had misappropriated money from the company. Manolete Partners Plc, the liquidator of claims against de
The importance of optimising land use to electrify the economy and meet the UK’s net zero ambition has been revealed in a report from TLT and real estate consultancy Gerald Eve. Competing land use priorities, from renewable generation and green infrastructure to industry, affordable housing, f
A robot lawyer is facing a class action in the US for attempting to practise without a licence. The chatbot's creator, DoNotPay, is being sued for providing “substandard” and “poor legal advice” to the plaintiff on various matters, among them drafting demand letters and a sma
A Deputy Judge of the High Court of England and Wales has granted permission for a Ukrainian father to withdraw an application under the Hague Convention of 1980 under which he sought the return of his two children to Kyiv. Applicant NW had remained in Ukraine under the requirements of martial law w
Burness Paull has appointed media, entertainment and sports specialist Fraser MacKinven as a partner in its technology and commercial division. Mr MacKinven, who worked in Burness Paull’s corporate finance team earlier in his career, re-joins from Abu Dhabi-based Flash Entertainment, where he
Applications are now being invited for scholarships offered through the Faculty of Advocates which can help ease financial tensions during the training period for the bar. Those hoping to begin devilling in 2024 should submit their applications by no later than 28 April this year.
Blackadders LLP has announced a series of promotions across its Scottish offices. Dario Demarco becomes legal director, Richard Wilson, Robyn Lee and Susan Currie all become associates whilst Blair Duncan and Stefan Docherty take up the roles of senior solicitor.
Balfour and Manson has doubled its private client team in Aberdeen with the hire of new senior associate, Greg Lawson, and secretary, Barbara Stephen, as the Albyn Terrace-based firm gears up for further expansion this year. Amy McKay, who joined the firm as an associate in 2017, has also been promo
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has today laid its budget for 2023-24 at Holyrood. The organisation has confirmed that, following "two years of cuts, rebounding complaint numbers and rising energy, staffing, legal and court costs", the levy will rise by nine per cent to just below pr
Researchers have released a short film featuring testimonies from victims of domestic abuse and stalking. The animated short is informed by a Glasgow Caledonian University study of women's experiences of the Scottish criminal justice system after reporting stalking and coercive control.
Humza Yousaf was sworn in by the Lord President as Scotland’s sixth first minister and keeper of the Scottish Seal, at the Court of Session yesterday.
I’m following with interest the current debate around a declaration of around 291 English barristers and solicitors refusing to prosecute climate change protesters and further refusing to act for clients in the fossil fuel industry on new projects. The Daily Mail made this declaration the subj