DWF has announced a market capitalisation of £366 million ahead of its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. The offer price for the recently-incorporated DWF Group Limited has been revealed today as 122p per share.
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Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has been accused of a "direct attack on the rule of law" after telling MPs that killings by military and police during the Troubles "were not crimes". Solicitor Darragh Mackin of Belfast firm Phoenix Law told our sister publication Irish Legal News that
The son of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has said his father was killed to "silence other lawyers", The Irish News reports. John Finucane, himself a lawyer with Belfast-based Finucane Toner Solicitors, spoke at an event at St Mary's University College in west Belfast on Saturday to ma
The Prison Service in England and Wales is considering plans to house transgender prisoners in separate prison wings, The Sunday Times reports. Justice minister Ed Argar confirmed that new guidelines would be issued after a trans woman who had not undergone gender reassignment surgery was convicted
Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon has won £30,000 in damages from a tabloid newspaper that claimed he had performed with a band which "delights in Nazi symbols". Mr Burgon, MP for Leeds East, launched the unusual libel proceedings against The Sun in connection with a story published in m
An accomplished US lawyer has received a $66 million compensation payout, among the largest in US history, after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a road traffic collision. Brooke Taylor, partner in the Seattle office of litigation firm Susman Godfrey LLP and a member of the firm's executive com
A local group aiming to bring the former Arbroath Sheriff Court building into community use has been given until the end of march to prove it has enough capital for its proposals, The Courier reports. The Arbroath Courthouse Community Trust (ACCT) has been given a final chance to prove it has the wo
Private companies which provide public services should be brought under the remit of Freedom of Information legislation, the UK's Information Commissioner has said. In a new report called Outsourcing Oversight?: The case for reforming access to information law, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Den
The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has been asked by an opposition MSP to set out his position on the Scottish government's competency to call another independence referendum without Westminster permission. Mike Rumbles, Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, has written to the top legal off
An MSP has cast doubt on the legality of key safe deposit boxes often installed on tenement doors in areas with a high proportion of short-term lets. Andy Wightman, housing spokesperson for the Scottish Greens, said it was "hard now not to notice" the number of key boxes appearing on the front of te
Human rights groups have called for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for "subverting state power". Mr Quanzhang was the last lawyer awaiting a verdict in connection with a 2015 crackdown which targeted nearly 250 human rights la
Children were booked into over 25,000 prison visits in Scotland in the last three years, according to new Scottish Prison Service (SPS) figures. Under-16s were booked into 8,945 visits in 2016, 8,578 visits in 2017, and 7,534 visits up to October 2018.
Former Lord Lyon David Sellar passed away on Saturday at the age of 77. The distinguished legal historian read history at the University of Oxford and law at the University of Edinburgh before qualifying as a solicitor in 1966 and working as a legal assessor at the Scottish Land Court.
Macdonald Henderson has advised social media video company Ground Level Up Productions (GLU) on its acquisition of rival Wandern Media. Director Fraser Morrison and corporate solicitor Laura McKnight advised the Glasgow-based company on the transaction.
A new exhibition in the members' reading room at the Faculty of Advocates explores the connection between the Faculty, Bob Dylan and a 17th century Scottish ballad. The display was written by Alistair Johnson, of the Advocates Library, and has its roots in a casual glance through a newspaper.
