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A new inquiry looking at the performance of employee-owned businesses following a sustained period of growth in their number over the past five years has launched a call for evidence. At a time when there is a significant focus on UK productivity, corporate behaviour and Brexit, the Ownership Effect

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) confirmed this week that it has received a new application to review the conviction in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi. Mr Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murder of the 259 passengers and crew on board Pan American World Airways

Digby Brown Solicitors has supported Spinal Injuries Scotland (SIS) barbeque and activities day for the third year running.

MacRoberts is now accepting traineeship applications and will be attending university fairs throughout Scotland.The firm will be attending the following law fairs in the period leading up to our closing date for 2019 traineeship applications at 12.00 noon on Monday 9 October 2017.

Saudi Arabia has made a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabism across the Islamic world and the West, including the UK, where it has funded mosques and Islamic educational institutions which in turn host Islamist extremist preachers and facilitate the distribution of extremist literature, ac

Rangers has failed in its appeal to the Supreme Court against a decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session over the use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) in a case clarifying the question whether an employee’s remuneration is taxable as their emoluments or earnings when it is paid to a th

Leigh Kirkpatrick of the Royal Bank of Scotland won the Legal Adviser of the Year Award at the 2017 Women in Finance Awards.

A QC who sued the Scottish Government after resigning as chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has had a £500,000 claim for damages dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session dismissed a claim by Susan O’Brien QC that a decision by the Scottish Ministers to instigate the process for terminati

Lord Carloway The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) has published its annual report, detailing its key achievements as well as priorities in the year ahead.

A woman has been elected Dean of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow for the first time in its 349-year history.

Proposed Fourth Floor break out space with glazed rooflight

After many weeks of training and preparation, seven of Clyde & Co’s most adventurous employees took part in the Cateran Yomp to raise money for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity last month. The Yomp is an epic 54 mile walk in rural Perthshire; completed within 24 hours. Harry Boyle, Kirsten Thomson,

A Chinese woman who claimed she would be persecuted if returned to her home country having had two children out of wedlock has successfully challenged a decision to refuse her application for asylum. The Upper Tribunal had upheld a decision of the First-tier Tribunal to dismiss the woman’s appeal,

Ewan Alexander Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2016-17 which shows global turnover increased by 11 per cent to £423.1m.