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David Gourlay David Gourlay explains the details of the Financial Conduct Authority's discussion paper on distributed ledger technology (DLT) (DP17/3) which closes for comment on 17 July 2017.

Lord McCluskey John McCluskey, Lord McCluskey, 87, is to be given the lifetime achievement award at the Scottish Legal Awards in Edinburgh tonight.

Lord Keen of Elie QC The Advocate General, Lord Keen of Elie QC, 62, has been charged with a firearms offence for allegedly breaching the Firearms Act 1968 s.2 after he failed to secure a shotgun.

Dominic Grieve A former Attorney General, Lord Chancellor and Director of Public Prosecutions have written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urging him to reconsider his approach to a British father on death row in Ethiopia.

Andrew Smith QC The landmark judgment by the Supreme Court on informed consent to medical treatment has been explored in an article by the Faculty of Advocates’ Andrew Smith QC, in the prestigious BJOG International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Burness Paull has recorded a successful three months, completing close to 50 corporate deals, worth more than £2.5 billion. Among a number of private equity deals, the firm advised long-standing client BlueGem, owner of fashion brand Liberty, in a deal that saw it team up with Jack Wills founder Pe

Joyce Cullen The University of Dundee is to honour a leading lawyer this month.

Shami Chakrabarti Former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti is set to become the shadow attorney general in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.

Lady Dorrian The Rt Hon Lady Dorrian, who made history this year on her appointment as the first female Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, will give the opening keynote speech at the Law Society of Scotland’s annual conference this month.

Petra Grunenberg Blackadders LLP has announced that partner and head of the rural land & business division, Petra Grunenberg, has been awarded accreditation in agricultural law.

TLT Solicitors, with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has reported a 15 per cent increase in turnover to hit £71.6 million for the 2015/16 financial year. This year's result comes at the end of the firm's current ambitious three year strategy, during which time the firm's revenue increased by 45 p

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Professor Jim Murdoch The University of Glasgow’s professor of public law, Jim Murdoch, is to receive the fifth annual "European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities".

British scientists from the Royal Society and Royal Society of Edinburgh are to teach the senior judiciary how to handle scientific evidence in court. Supported by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the scheme will launch with a “primer document” on DNA analysis

Philip Rodney Burness Paull LLP has secured its position as Scotland’s biggest and busiest transactional corporate law firm in Business Insider’s list of the top performing legal dealmakers.