The Scottish Child Law Centre has been awarded £25,000 in funding thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The award is timely given the increased demand for the centre’s services and a growing complexity of cases. Last year, a pilot community clinic in Govanhill identified
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A simple question: do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? Seeking an answer formed the basis of a course by the author on leaders and leadership in history at Harvard University. The debate in understanding leadership is said to be deciding between those (like Machiavelli) who believ
Morton Fraser MacRoberts has announced its first round of promotions since merging. The firm has announced 27 promotions across its five divisions – nine in corporate & commercial, six in litigation, five in real estate, four in private client and three in construction & projects.
A global networking and community group for in-house legal professionals is hosting its next Aberdeen-based in-person event on Thursday 20 June. Supported by Pinsent Masons Vario, the Crafty Locals Aberdeen – part of the Crafty Counsel group – was so encouraged by its initial get-togethe
Two young Iraqi women can claim asylum in the Netherlands on the basis that they have become "westernised" during their stay in the country and could be persecuted if forced to return to Iraq, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The two women are sisters of Iraqi nationality
Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of new office accommodation in Dundee for the city’s Crown Office staff. Around 80 COPFS staff moved into the new office, in Compass House on Riverside Drive, in March after relocating from the previous COPFS prem
An early-career solicitor for a global technology company has been named the Law Society of Scotland’s 2024 In-House Rising Star. Cameron Ramage, legal counsel at Cirrus Logic, was announced as winner by Law Society of Scotland president Susan Murray yesterday.
Despite improved transparency, a Holyrood committee has found that inconsistency, bureaucracy, and inflexibility are still creating challenges for small businesses and third sector organisations looking to participate in public procurement. A decade on from the introduction of the Procurement Reform
New proposals to "improve the planning and regulation" of public processions and marches are to be introduced. An action group set up to consider how to better facilitate processions, has set out six recommendations in a newly published report, which have been accepted by the Scottish government, th
Solicitors should support alternative business structures at the AGM of the Law Society of Scotland on Thursday, writes Brian Inkster. Section 47 to 49 of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 allowed for the creation of licensed legal service providers (commonly referred to as alternative business
The growing importance of AI and technology for the legal sector has been examined at a conference hosted by the Law Society of Scotland. Legal technology experts told attendees at the annual Legal Tech Conference, held in Edinburgh yesterday that the Scottish sector must be willing to adopt AI and
Ampersand has welcomed Louise Jardine, Kirsty Shaw, Amelia Mah and Sean White to the stable, following their call to the bar on Friday. Ms Jardine calls to the bar after working as a solicitor for a large public sector organisation.
Ross Crawford, Donald Mackay and Rebecca Osborne have been welcomed to Compass after all three called to the bar today. Prior to calling to the bar, Mr Crawford worked with Clyde & Co and typically handled an interesting and complex range of matters involving fatalities and complex injuries. He
On 18 September 1961, a plane transporting Dag Hammarskjöld, then the secretary-general of the United Nations, flew across the Congo on a long route to avoid a vast area that had seceded from the main part of the country. The fatal flight ended at Ndola in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasala
A team established to consider how the recommendations in the Cass Review might apply to NHS services in Scotland has submitted its findings to the Scottish Parliament, including a recommendation that the use of puberty-suppressing hormones be paused. A senior clinical team, commissioned by the chie