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Sheona Burrow Cloch® has announced that solicitor Sheona Burrow has been promoted to associate within the firm, effective 1 July 2017. Ms Burrow, an academic lawyer and winner of the 2013 Cloch Prize for Intellectual Property in the Digital Economy at the University of Glasgow, started with the bou

Lindsays has announced the promotion of Peter Murrin (pictured) to partner in its private client team in Glasgow.Mr Murrin joined the firm in May 2016 as an associate and has significant experience in providing advice to individuals, families and businesses on private client matters. His expertise

Lesley Thomson Former Solicitor General Lesley Thomson is to take up the role of lay governor at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) along with three others.

Ken McEwan McEwan Fraser Legal has announced its intention to be the most visible business in Scottish football.

Robert Sutherland Terra Firma advocate Robert Sutherland is set to trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro next year to raise money for Team Children 1st, Scotland’s National Children’s Charity, who help Scotland’s families to put children first, with practical advice and with support in difficul

Michael Matheson Views are being sought on the best way to spare child witnesses from having to give evidence during criminal trials.

A paedophile convicted of two charges of rape who was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction has failed in an appeal against his sentence after appeal judges rejected his claim that the punishment imposed was “excessive and disproportionate”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ref

The Lord President has claimed that a register of interests for the judiciary would deter lawyers from joining the bench and would help disgruntled litigants exact revenge after losing cases. Lord Carloway told MSPs on Holyrood’s Petitions Committee that the creation of a register would b

Permission to appeal applications considered by the Supreme Court have fallen by 11 per cent over the past year according to the court’s annual report, laid before Parliament this week. The number of applications for permission to appeal considered by the justices decreased by 11 per cent to 192.

James Wolffe QC The police and courts will have greater powers to protect the public from perpetrators of human trafficking and exploitation from today.

Megan Briggs Megan Briggs comments on Morrisons' savvy reaction to a shopkeeper's pun in the wake of his David and Goliath encounter with a rival supermarket

Scotland has the chance to use a conference in Edinburgh to firmly establish the country as a seat of international arbitration, according to a leading world figure in alternative dispute resolution.

Pictured: Keeper of the Advocates Library, Mungo Bovey, QC (second left) with Lord Pentland (fourth from right) and his guests

Chris West Gillespie Macandrew LLP has reported an 8.4 per cent increase in turnover, worth £0.88 million in growth over the year.