Edward Hunter, a partner in Burness Paull’s corporate finance team, has been recognised as a rising star in an industry benchmark. The Lawyer’s annual Hot 100 list, which it describes as “the crème de la crème of the legal world”, features “the most daring
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A Scottish government bill has come under fire for failing to define simple legal concepts. The Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill seeks to reduce the number of prisoners on remand but risks creating bad law, Scottish Labour has warned.
All we have heard from the Scottish government is "froth and rage" over the UK government's veto of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, a former Supreme Court justice has said. Writing in The Sunday Times, Lord Sumption says that "the suggestion that the UK government’s veto is an a
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill was introduced into the UK Parliament last week and makes provision for minimum service levels to be stipulated for health services, fire and rescue services, education services, transport services, decommissioning of nuclear installations and management of
Donald Trump has been fined almost $1 million by a judge in Florida for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Hilary Clinton and others in which he claimed they conspired to damage his reputation as part of the Russia investigation. Judge David Middlebrooks said in his judgment that Trump was "a prolif
One of Scotland’s leading commercial real estate lawyers has joined Aberdein Considine. Chris Richardson – a commercial property practitioner with almost 20 years’ experience – has left Anderson Strathern to join Aberdein Considine as head of commercial real estate for Englan
The looming constitutional court clash over Scotland's proposed gender reforms is the subject of a new article by writer and former practising lawyer Helen Dale. Ms Dale, who has law degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh, details the background to the bill and the rationale for the UK government's oppos
Local authorities have fined a man for “praying for [his] son, who is deceased” near an abortion facility in Bournemouth. Adam Smith-Connor stood still and silent on the public street for a few minutes before being approached by “community safety accredited officers”.
TLT has advised global private asset management firm Capital Dynamics on the sale of a 27.5MW operational onshore wind portfolio consisting of three assets located in Fife, County Durham and Bedfordshire. The sale formed part of Capital Dynamics’ realisation of Capital Dynamics Clean Energy an
An Inverness-based property company has been fined £80,000 after a 64-year-old asbestos surveyor died following an electrical explosion. Global Energy Nigg Limited pled guilty to a health and safety breach committed on 10 December 2020 at Tain Sheriff Court on 18 January 2023.
Squaring Circles founder and senior mediator, Rachael Bicknell, has been appointed to the Panel of Mediators for the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Arbitration Centre. The ADGM Arbitration Centre serves the international dispute resolution community through its panel of accredited and experienced me
Protesters in Sri Lanka have embarrassed police after responding to the deployment of water cannons by putting shampoo in their hair. Photos shared widely on social media show grinning protesters taking the novel move when confronted with water cannons at an anti-government protest in the city of Ja
The former lord chancellor who oversaw the introduction of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 has criticised the UK government's deployment of the "nuclear option" of vetoing Scotland's gender recognition reforms. Lord Falconer of Thoroton KC said the statement of reasons published yesterday by Scottis
Descendants of ECHR architect David Maxwell Fyfe sing in protest at corrosion of rights and freedoms
Members of the family of British champion of the European Convention on Human Rights, David Maxwell Fyfe, have sung in protest at UK government plans to withdraw from the Convention. In the wake of the ‘small boat’ crisis in the Channel, the UK government is threatening to take the UK ou
Lindsays has welcomed senior solicitor Omar Mohammed to the firm. Mr Mohammed has advised clients on all matters relating to residential property including the sale and purchase of property, transfers of title, new build purchases, government scheme purchases (LIFT, First Home Fund and Help to Buy),
