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Dickson Minto has announced the appointment of two new partners and a new finance director. Craig Roberts, Nicola Mitchell and Alex Smith have taken up the respective positions. Mr Roberts and Ms Mitchell are based in the firm's Edinburgh office and support clients across the firm. They both joined
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Austin Lafferty has been elected dean of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.
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Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has promoted four members of staff: two to associate and two to senior solicitor. Sarajane Drake, from the firm’s commercial property team in Glasgow and Kirstin MacDonald, in the corporate team at the Inverness office, have each been promoted to the r
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Burness Paull's Callum Sinclair is among a number of experts appointed by the Scottish government to help Scotland become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Scottish AI Alliance Leadership Circle will work to deliv
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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A pair of feuding neighbours have returned to court over an unwanted Facebook friend request. Mary O'Neill complained that she had received a friend request from her neighbour Peter Malcouronne, even though she is subject to a restraining order banning her from contact with him.
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A Crown appeal by stated case against a sheriff’s decision to uphold a no case to answer submission in a case against a teacher charged with assaulting children with additional support needs has succeeded in the Criminal Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court. The Procurator Fiscal for
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats have said they will use this Thursday’s justice debate to offer Parliament the chance to trigger reform of the fatal accident inquiry system. The party has called for inquiries to be removed from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service altogether and
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The Herald has published an obituary of Heriot Currie, who passed away in April at the age of 68. "A commanding figure in court, he could pick out the salient points in an argument and then comprehensively deliver the highlights to the jury. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of case law and was a ma
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Leigh Herd, an associate in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s construction disputes team, has been confirmed as vice chair of the Scottish branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in a brace of new appointments for the firm’s lawyers. Ms Herd's appointment as vice chair comes as
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Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace LLP (RCCW) has announced two promotions within its commercial property and private client departments, with the elevation of Craig Veitch and Gillian Smith to associate. Mr Veitch joined RCCW in March 2019, having attended Aberdeen Grammar School and graduated fr
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Lindsays has welcomed two new team members to its residential conveyancing teams in Edinburgh and Dundee. Alex McNeil has joined as a solicitor in Edinburgh and Natasha Vials has become the newest paralegal in Dundee.
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Dentons predicts a surge in activity in the vegan and plant-based food market after the law firm’s Scottish offices advised Bute Island Foods on their sale to Canadian dairy company, Saputo. Bute Island Foods, which employs around 180 staff, makes vegan cheese alternative Sheese, as well as ow
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Slovenia has become the thirteenth country in Europe to pass legislation defining rape as sex without consent. The new amendment to the Slovenian criminal code, debated for nearly three years, removes the requirement for evidence of use of force or the threat of use of force and violence to classify
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Lady Hale has advocated the use of caravan courts to restore local justice and spare participants long journeys. The former Supreme Court justice suggested mobile courts could compensate for the hundreds of court buildings closed by the UK government.
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