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Addleshaw Goddard has recruited insolvency litigation specialist Sophia Harrison as a partner in restructuring, focusing on its insolvency dispute resolution (IDR) practice. Ms Harrison is dual-qualified in England & Wales as a barrister and in Scotland as a solicitor.
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A colony of beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them. Environmentalists had called for years for the construction of new dams in Czechia's Brdy mountains to reverse damage caused by the communist-era Cze
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Lawyers representing 3,500 claimants are preparing to sue Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over alleged links between its talcum powder products and cancer, in what could become one of the largest pharmaceutical group actions in England and Wales. Claimants allege that asbestos-contaminated talcum po
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A 61-year-old Aberdeen man who illegally kept and burned waste on a site near an Aberdeenshire village has been ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and placed under 18 months supervision. Derek McAllister was sentenced at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to a breach of the Envi
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A new modern prison in Glasgow to replace the 143-year-old HMP Barlinnie has been given the go-ahead. With the construction contract now signed, HMP Glasgow will have a capacity of 1,344 – adding 357 more places to the overall prison estate once completed in 2028. The total project cost is &po
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Holmes Mackillop has promoted Glasgow-based Robbie McAdam from solicitor to senior solicitor within its dispute resolution and litigation team. Mr McAdam joined Holmes Mackillop last August having qualified with a national personal injury firm the previous year before moving to a global commercial f
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called on the Scottish government to reduce the use of remand as new figures revealed that the cost of a prison place has risen by more than £10,000 per year since 2017. A freedom of information request to the Scottish Prison Service has revealed that the av
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The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that the required nine-month devilling period prior to becoming a fully qualified advocate does not interrupt the continuous 10-year period for which a person requires to be legally qualified in order to become a sheriff in Scotland. The question aro
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Lord Beckett has been sworn in as lord justice clerk. The installation ceremony took place at the Court of Session in Edinburgh yesterday.
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The UK government will lay legislation today that confirms a new national living wage of £12.21, and a new national minimum wage of £10 per hour from April.
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A law passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2017 has focused minds on work to reduce child poverty, but more collaboration is needed for the Scottish government to continue to make progress, according to a report from Holyrood’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee. The Child Poverty (S
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Lord Pentland was sworn in as lord president and lord justice general at the Court of Session yesterday. He said: “The solemn oaths I have just taken on my appointment as lord president of the Court of Session enshrine the fundamental values underpinning the judiciary: independence, impartiali
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The review body for alleged miscarriages of justice in England and Wales is to assess an application from Lucy Letby, the English nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more. Ms Letby, a former nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, is currently serving 15 whole
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