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Laura McDowall Blackadders has announced that Laura McDowall has been accredited as a specialist in incapacity and mental disability law by the Law Society of Scotland.

A court officer and popular staff member at Perth Sheriff Court has retired at the age of 65, the Perth Advertiser reports. Colin Aldous began his 15-year career at the court in 2002 following a varied working life including six-and-a-half years with the RAF.

Malcolm McPherson Addleshaw Goddard will prioritise growth in Aberdeen when it takes over HBJ Gateley at the beginning of next month, The Herald reports.

Gordon Jackson QC Next weekend I'm going to a reunion to celebrate, if that's the right word, 50 years since going to Dundee to study law. There were four women in the class. Some years later I joined the Faculty. Four women there as well. The law clearly was the preserve of white men with the odd t

Professor Liz Campbell The preservation of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) scheme is preferable to a system of bilateral agreements, a new paper argues.

Changes should be made to the way the personal injury discount rate is fixed, to avoid “real injustice”, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. Earlier this year, the rate - a key factor in fixing damages awards and negotiating settlements - was reduced from 2.5 per cent to –0.75 per cent, th

Prosecutors have successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to desert simpliciter a case against a man accused of a catalogue of domestic abuse charges. The sheriff deserted the trial after the Crown had repeatedly failed to disclose the telephone records of the appellant and his wife, but the C

Claire Armstrong Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) earlier this month saw the bell ring at the London Stock Exchange for the IPO of Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust raising more than £55 million.

Advocate Niall McCluskey (pictured) has completed the Stirling Marathon, raising more than £1,900, including gift aid, for PBI a charity which assists human rights defenders. He said: “Peace Brigades International and the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk provide protection and support to human rights

Brandon Malone The Scottish Arbitration Centre has supported the London Centre for International Law Practice 2nd Annual Conference on Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa, held in London last week. Brandon Malone, chairman of the board of the centre, devised and d

Lord Neuberger In an address delivered at the Northern Ireland Personal Injury Bar’s Inaugural Conference in County Down earlier this month, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger reflects on shifts in the underlying principles in the law of negligence and the role of policy in deciding su

Whatever type of ‘Brexit’ is eventually agreed between the UK and the EU, legislation made by the EU and the case law of the European Court of Justice is likely to be important for Scottish courts for many years in the future. The way that EU law influences UK courts is likely to change however.

The fund-freezing measures imposed on Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, must be maintained for the period 2016-2017, the General Court of the European Union has confirmed. Since 2011, the Council has included Mr Rami Makhlouf on the list of persons covered by the restrictiv

David Gourlay MacRoberts has advised the shareholders of CLCB Holdings Limited, which includes CORGI HomePlan, in the sale of their business to the OVO Group.

A full bench is to review the procedure for challenging the validity of a police search warrant granted by a sheriff and the admissibility of evidence obtained from the search. Three judges of the High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court observed that there was “confusion” among the legal professio