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A Glasgow sheriff has ordered a licensing board to grant a provisional licence for a petrol station and convenience store to a company seeking to run premises in Cambuslang after it appealed a rejection decision. Certas Energy UK Ltd, which applied for a provisional premises licence from South Lanar

CMS has announced the appointment of new partners, Barry Edgar and Fenella Mason, who join its Glasgow and Edinburgh offices respectively. Mr Edgar is a commercial real estate lawyer with extensive experience in advising institutional and private equity clients on investment and development transact

Gillian Mawdsley, author of the recently released Sudden Deaths and Fatal Accidents Inquiries in Scotland: Law, Policy and Practice, looks at the differences between FAIs and inquiries. Bloomsbury Professional is offering SLN readers a special 25 per cent discount on the new book. Order today f

An annual mock trial supported by Scots lawyers to help promote legal education in schools will take place this weekend. The Edinburgh Schools MiniTrials will see children from eight local secondary schools taking part in mock criminal trials, which will be presided over by members of the Faculty of

The Scotsman has published an obituary of Alan Edward Boyle, who passed away on 14 September at the age of 70. "Professor Alan Boyle was among the most influential international lawyers of his generation. Perhaps best known for his pioneering work on international environmental law, Alan’s int

Addleshaw Goddard has recruited two new partners to its corporate team. Derek McCombe and Iain Sutherland, who join the firm from Dentons, will be based in the firm's Glasgow office, joining existing Glasgow-based corporate partners Murray Jack and Anna Brown.

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has accepted instructions in an environmental justice case over the proposed industrialisation of St Fittick’s Park in Torry, Aberdeen. A petition for judicial review of a decision of Aberdeen City Council to lease and develop the park for industrial purposes was lodged

Harper Macleod has been appointed to all six available lots on Edinburgh Council’s new legal services framework. Following a competitive tender process, the firm was appointed to the two-year framework on all six lots: commercial, property & planning, litigation, employment, major projects

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has announced a raft of promotions. In Dunblane, private client expert Mirella Marchini has been made partner and property specialist Karen Crothers has been promoted to legal director.

New evidence alleging a conflict of interest in a Supreme Court justice's involvement in legal cases over the collapse of Rangers Football Club has emerged. Lord Hodge, 70, led a panel of three judges who dismissed an appeal made by the businessman David Grier, who had been appointed as an administr

For only the second time, the Intellectual Property Court of the Court of Session has heard an appeal from a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), write Colin Hulme and Amy McSkimming. The IP Court re-affirmed the applicable standard of review. Burness Paull LLP was instru

A bill that seeks to improve disabled children and young people’s transition to adulthood would not fully achieve its aims, according to report from Holyrood’s Education, Children and Young People Committee. The committee has been scrutinising the Disabled, Children and Young People (Tra

An SNP politician has suggested a middle ground may be found in the juryless trials debate by including lay members with a judge. The party's former justice spokesperson, Stuart McDonald, broached the possibility at a fringe event during the SNP conference in Aberdeen, organised by the Law Society o

Tony Lenehan KC points out that the purpose of juryless trials, despite protestations to the contrary, is to raise the conviction rate in rape cases. Readers of SLN are likely tired of articles from me and my colleagues about the damage removing juries will certainly do to our criminal justice syste

Arnot Manderson Advocates has obtained 24 individual rankings including 8 in Band 1 across fourteen wide ranging practice areas in the recently announced Chambers and Partners listings. As well as the haul of individual rankings Arnot Manderson has achieved stable wide recognition in Private Client,