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Laura McCallum has been appointed general counsel of Aberdeen Football Club. She joins the club from Dundee United FC where she previously held the post of head of football administration and legal affairs, overseeing all legal and football regulatory matters.

The governments across the UK and local authorities should consider further reducing burdens, and extending supportive measures for the hospitality industry, to boost its fragile recovery from the pandemic, writes Audrey Ferrie. Many hospitality venues have been operating at reduced capacity, w

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has announced a number of promotions across its offices in Scotland. Planning expert Nicola Martin, who is based in Edinburgh, is stepping up to the role of partner. Ms Martin, who is dual-qualified, specialises in advising on residential and renewable energy pro

A new system of regulation claiming to promote "accountability, transparency and independence" is being proposed to "meet the needs of the legal sector and consumers". A consultation has been launched today and will run until 24 December to seek views on options to change the way legal services are

A new approach to interviews for vulnerable child victims and witnesses is to be rolled out across Scotland. The Scottish government is funding the £2 million initiative – which involves pre-recorded investigative interviews of children conducted jointly by police officers and social wor

Alastair Smith takes up his new role as a director at Lindsays from today, while Darren Lightfoot and Brian Pollock have become senior associates. Mr Smith’s directorship is in the corporate and technology team and he is based across the firms’ offices in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. H

Professor Donna McKenzie-Skene, of Aberdeen University's School of Law, has retired after 29 years of service. She joined the school as a lecturer in 1992 and was promoted first to senior lecturer in 1999 and to professor earlier this year. Before joining the university, she was a court lawyer for f

Charmaine Trainor has been promoted to executive director at Scullion LAW. Ms Trainor began her career at Scullion LAW nine years ago and has progressed from working in the firm's reception.

The Scottish government's 13-year delay in establishing an inquiry into childhood abuse in care was "woeful and wholly avoidable", a judge has said. Lady Smith, chair of the inquiry, made the comments in relation to the Scottish government’s response to a petition made to Holyrood in 2002 seek

Wayne Couzens, the police firearms officer who falsely arrested, kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, has been sentenced to a whole life order. Tom Little QC, prosecuting, had sought the order, which means Couzens, 48, will be ineligible for parole and will die in prison.

Scotland's vaccine certification scheme will come into effect tomorrow. It will require a person seeking entry to certain venues and settings to show that they have been fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated means vaccinated with an MHRA recognised vaccine in line with the MHRA recommended number of do

Shoosmiths has announced that three partners of the firm have been appointed to managerial roles within its operations. Janette Speed, real estate partner and previously head of Edinburgh has been officially named head of Scotland for Shoosmiths. She will assume overarching responsibility to spearhe

Businesses emerging from the Covid-induced cocoon of furlough payments used to retain their workforce since the pandemic struck are now facing the cold wind of scrutiny as HMRC gears up to claw back any cash that may have been handed over in error, writes Christine Rolland, forensic accounting

Climate leaders from the Global South have published a statement of their key priorities for COP26. Participants included communities impacted by the climate crisis, governments, non-governmental organisations, charities, and universities from countries including Malawi, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Tanzania,

DLA Piper is to agree a travel budget with its clients as part of a new series of measures to reduce its carbon footprint in the next two years. The move is part of a wider project of the firm's to commit to targets halving its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to pre-pandemic levels.