CMS has announced partner promotions within its Glasgow and Aberdeen offices. The newly promoted partners include Glasgow-based Fiona Letham, head of the CMS legal services unit (LSU), a key component of the firm’s alternative resourcing offering which features over 100 paralegals.
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At the end of January 2024, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) delivered its judgment in the action raised by Thatchers Cider Company Limited against Aldi Stores, finding that Aldi had not infringed Thatchers’ trade mark in relation to its cloudy lemon drink and also that it had
Katia Sher and Emma Kolbuc have won this year's Internal Mooting Competition at the University of Dundee. Throughout the competition, organised annually by the university's Mooting Society, participants tackle a range of complex legal issues, including topics such as duty of care and medic
Justice Secretary Angela Constance has said that the spike in hate crime reports in the first week of new legislation coming into force shows "how vital tackling hate crime is", despite the fact that only 3.5 per cent of reports had been recorded. Police Scotland has received 7,152 online hate
Former chairman of Blackadders Solicitors and Lord Dean of Guild of the Guildry Incorporation of Dundee, Scott Williamson WS, has died after being taken ill at home, aged 69. The only son of the late Hugh and Florence Williamson, Mr Williamson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1955 and spent his ea
The Faculty of Advocates’ mini-devilling scheme has been praised again this year, with participating students saying they would definitely recommend it to others. This is the second year a full 10-week programme has been available to students studying towards the diploma. It aims to encourage
Thorntons has announced the appointment of seven newly qualified solicitors, all of whom have completed the firm's two-year traineeship programme. Sean Lieder and Hannah Smethurst have joined the firm’s corporate team in Edinburgh, and Walter Buckman has joined the corporate team in Glasgow.
Addleshaw Goddard has announced that it is launching a Madrid office with the arrival in May 2024 of all 13 partners and their teams from KWM in Spain. The new office will be led by KWM Madrid managing partner Roberto Pomares.
Amnesty International is urging shareholders in Dow to consider withdrawing their investment from the US chemicals company if it fails to rapidly meet its human rights responsibilities towards more than 500,000 people still suffering from the Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s worst industria
Former lord president and Supreme Court justice Lord Hope of Craighead has called for Scotland's new hate crime legislation to be withdrawn, describing it as the result of “gesture politics”. The former judge said the legislation's aims could have been achieved by simply amending Scotlan
After much delay, the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill was published on 27 March 2024. Next, it will be scrutinised by a Holyrood committee and voted on by MSPs, probably later this year, writes Dr Mary Neal. Much can (and will) be said about whether this bill is safer for pa
Strathclyde University's Professor Elisa Morgera has been appointed as a UN special rapporteur on climate change and human rights. She will work closely with UN member states on climate change's impact on people’s human rights.
Former Supreme Court president, Lord Neuberger, delivered the Aberdeen Law Project's annual lecture on 28 March. His address on “Access to Justice and the Rule of Law” emphasised the need for the community to have access to legal guidance and the importance of ensuring that members of th
RSABI’s flagship annual outdoors team event, the Great Glen Challenge, is returning for 2024 and for the second-year running will be sponsored by Gillespie Macandrew. Last year’s event raised over £50,000 towards the work of RSABI which provides practical, emotional, and financial
A new prison for the Highlands is to arrive six years late and cost more than four times its original estimate. The cost of HMP Highland has risen from £92 million, the figure given in 2020, to £209m – quadruple the original figure of £52m.
