Appointments

The Scottish Council of Law Reporting has announced the appointment of four additional law reporters to the Session Cases team. The selection process involved an aptitude assessment as well as interviews conducted remotely by video link.

Clyde & Co has announced the appointment of Vikki Melville as managing partner for Scotland. Ms Melville is an insurance lawyer who has been with the firm for 17 years since joining Simpson & Marwick in 2003, which went on to merge with Clyde & Co in October 2015.

Rooney Nimmo has announced that Neil Anderson has joined the firm as a partner, based in its London and Edinburgh offices. Mr Anderson is a highly-experienced commercial lawyer who has spent his legal career focused on providing practical legal and commercial advice to public and private sector orga

Stacey Cassidy and Michael Spence have joined TLT in Scotland. Ms Cassidy joins the projects, infrastructure and construction team as a partner in Glasgow, bringing transactional construction experience and attracting clients to the firm in line with its strategic growth plan. She previously worked

Katherine McAlpine and Rhian Griffiths have joined Lindsays. Ms McAlpine, who joins the firm’s Dundee team as a senior solicitor, will be providing advice on a wide variety of commercial litigation matters including debt recovery, insolvency issues, contractual disputes as well as landlord and

Dr Sophie Flemig has been appointed to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Board. Dr Flemig is the chief executive of Cattanach, an independent funder supporting work with infants and very young children. Before this she was the director of public policy at the Scottish Legal Complaints Commis

Following the success of the Tayside Commercial Court, it is set to expand to cover the whole Tayside, Central and Fife Sheriffdom. This will mean the appointment of four further commercial court sheriffs across the region.

Dentons has hired Brian Hutcheson as a partner in its UK real estate practice. Mr Hutcheson will be based in the firm's Glasgow office and joins from Morton Fraser where he has been a partner since 2006. He specialises in development work, investment sales and purchases, property finance and leasing

Cat MacLean, partner and head of dispute resolution at MBM Commercial, has been appointed to the Law Society of Scotland's Pursuer’s Panel. The panel consists of seven solicitors selected by the Law Society on the basis of their expertise in dealing with professional negligence claims.

Levy & McRae Solicitors LLP has confirmed the appointment of Peter Anderson, one of Scotland’s most experienced commercial litigation lawyers. He has significant experience in cases involving professionals, particularly architects, engineers, surveyors, lawyers, accountants, and brokers; i

Andre Boyle has been awarded accredited legal technologist status by the Law Society of Scotland. Mr Boyle is head of technology at Millar & Bryce, the property search and information specialists. He becomes the first person from a non-traditional law firm to receive the accreditation in recogni

DAC Beachcroft has announced the arrival of a team of injury specialists from BLM. The latest additions to the firm’s Glasgow office include partner Keith Mathews and associate Ed Radford, both of whom previously worked at DAC Beachcroft.

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has promoted two of its lawyers to partner and four to legal director, effective May 1. The newly assumed partners are construction law specialist Lauren Thomson and corporate finance specialist John Morrison, both of whom have been with the firm since they were trainees.

Sheriff Principal Anwar has officially taken her oath of office before the Lord President, Lord Carloway and is now sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, replacing Sheriff Principal Ian Abercrombie. She was appointed as a part-time sheriff in 2011 and a resident sheriff at G

Robert Spano has been elected president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Judge Spano, who succeeds Greek judge Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, will take office on 18 May.