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Murray Beith Murray has appointed Alec Stewart as new partner. Mr Stewart will join Murray Beith Murray partners Ruthven Gemmell, Peter Shand, Andrew Paterson, Sophie Napier and Fraser Scott within the firm’s asset protection group in September.

Peter Nicholson, editor of the Law Society of Scotland’s Journal magazine, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Herald Law Awards. The tribute comes just a matter of months after he was conferred honorary membership of the Law Society of Scotland.

Shoosmiths has announced Kirsten Hewson as its new chair. She will take over from longstanding chair Peter Duff on 1 April 2024.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 76-year-old Peter Tobin. Peter Tobin died on 8 October 2022 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). Mr Tobin had been an inmate within HMP Edinbu

Paul McNaughton has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court in Glasgow for the murder of retired Edinburgh schoolteacher Peter Coshan in August 2022. The punishment part of the sentence is 22 years and will be backdated to August 18, 2022. McNaughton, 29, pled guilty to both charges at

Burness Paull has reported strong results for its financial year ended 31 March, a shortened eight-month reporting period following the firm’s decision to change its year-end following HMRC’s basis period reforms. Turnover for the eight months was £60.1 million and profit was &poun

Disney is being sued over its use of CGI to "resurrect" the late Peter Cushing in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Mr Cushing played Grand Moff Tarkin in the original 1977 Star Wars, in which he gives the order to destroy Princess Leia's home planet of Alderaan using the formidable Death Star.

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Matthew Peter Burden. Mr Burden, 36, who was employed as a gamekeeper by East Tillypronie Sporting Ltd, Tillypronie Estate, in Aberdeenshire, died on 6 February 2022, after an a

Burness Paull has appointed Mark Ellis as its new managing partner, working alongside Peter Lawson who will continue as chair. A highly-regarded corporate lawyer who specialises in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions, he trained with legacy firm Burness before spending five year

Ledingham Chalmers has announced senior leadership changes as it celebrates record turnover of £14.3 million, its highest since becoming an LLP in 2006. The Aberdeen-headquartered law firm broke its turnover record for a third consecutive year, with a seven per cent year-on-year increase from

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to commence the court process for a joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Francis Peter McCarthy and John Hay Angus. Francis Peter McCarthy, 59, died on 12 April 2020 in Glasgow Royal Infirmary after being transferred from H

A new book by a Scots lawyer examines comic legal fiction and the role it plays in the public’s understanding of the justice system. Retired judge and professor of law, Peter Robson, has produced a study of all the comic fictional lawyers over the past century, including the most famous, Old B

Brodies LLP has appointed seven new partners in its latest round of internal promotions. Private client lawyers Nadine Walton and Stewart Gibson step up to partner, as do construction law expert Amy Pairman, banking and finance lawyer Peter Brading, rural business and natural capital specialist Andr

A man imprisoned for almost four decades for a murder he didn't commit has been freed by an English court after he was exonerated by new DNA evidence. The Court of Appeal in London yesterday quashed the murder conviction of Peter Sullivan, who was found guilty in 1987 of the murder of Diane Sin

Distinguished figures in the field of family law will converge on Edinburgh from throughout the UK and Ireland for a major conference this weekend. The Four Jurisdictions Family Law Conference this will examine a host of issues, including child protection, legal aid, enforcing divorce judgments and