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Brian Moore Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) advised QUIZ plc (QUIZ), the omni-channel fast fashion womenswear retailer, on its £200 million flotation on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), which takes effect today.

Brodies LLP has reported that in its financial year to 30 April 2017 revenues grew by 2.4 per cent to a record £66.7 million. Over the same period, profits before partner distributions rose by 2.6 per cent to £31.7 million and the firm’s cash balances increased by 14.4 per cent to £18.2 million

Lynda Towers Public law expert Lynda Towers surveys the latest bill on the path to Brexit.

Morton Fraser chairman Maggie Moodie (pictured), is making 'agile working' the focus of her three-year term at the firm's helm. Agile working is the practice of allowing employees to work where, when and how they want to, so long as doing so does not affect service or productivity.

Less than a month after a warning by Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, that the English legal system was facing a ‘ticking time bomb’ in its failure to recruit judges, Scottish Legal News can reveal that Scotland too is facing such a crisis with top qu

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Gavin Dewar Arnot Manderson Advocates has this week welcomed Gavin Dewar to the stable. Mr Dewar called to the bar in 2013 and since then he has been widely instructed by solicitors across a range of public law cases including judicial review and human rights related cases. He has gained an enviable

Aileen Campbell New statistics released today show that Scotland’s drug-related deaths continue to particularly affect an ageing group of drug users.

Liam McArthur The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called for a review of the Judicial Complaints Reviewer post following an admission from the previous incumbent that only a "poor" service could be offered.

Planned legislation aimed at improving access to justice could, ironically, hamper some litigants in family cases, the Faculty of Advocates has warned. In written evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee, which is examining the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scot

Liz MacKay Despite the use of English court terminology, Morton Fraser's Liz MacKay and Audrey Watson were impressed by a 'trial' that included an audience-picked jury.

Jamie Robertson Jamie Robertson looks at the pitfalls associated with a new trend in transferring heritable property.

Clan Childlaw has called for the revised Named Person proposals to be scrapped, The Herald reports. The charity said in a response to Holyrood’s Education and Skills Committee, which is currently scrutinising the proposals, that the legislation will only make the system more complicated.

Jamies Foulis Jamies Foulis looks at a judgment on summary divorce from India's Supreme Court and how Scots law would handle something similar.