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Lawscot Foundation trustee Laura Butcher got the bauble rolling when she made the first donation to the Lawscot Foundation as part of this year’s Baublefest campaign. For every donation made at the Law Society’s Edinburgh office or through the Lawscot Foundation website, a new bauble featuring t
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Two names in the sheriff officer profession have joined forces in a new venture; Fraser Irvine Sheriff Officers. The firm is a collaboration between Alex Irvine (pictured right) and Andrew Fraser (pictured below).
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Pictured: (L-R): Robert Phillips and Sandy Kemp
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A tenant who challenged a sheriff’s decision that he was liable to pay his former landlord two months’ unpaid rent has had his appeal dismissed. The Sheriff Appeal Court upheld the sheriff’s ruling that the landlord’s breach of certain statutory obligations did not render the lease agreement
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Mike Dailly Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly suggests a solution to the problem of competing governing clauses.
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Lucy Thornton The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association (SYLA) has announced a new committee for the remainder of 2017/2018 following a recruitment drive and changes to the Executive Committee. Laura Meldrum (Anderson Strathern) who has been president of SYLA since May 2016, has opted to step down f
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Anna Poole QC (left) and Leslee Udwin The award-winning film producer/director, Leslee Udwin, has thanked the Faculty of Advocates for a special screening of her controversial documentary, India's Daughter.
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A man who was sentenced to the minimum term of five years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of a stun gun has failed in an appeal against what he argued was an “arbitrary and disproportionate” sentence. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary upheld the decision of the
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Stephen McGowan Stephen McGowan, partner and head of licensing (Scotland) at TLT, has received a specialist accreditation from the Law Society of Scotland in liquor licensing law in recognition of his extensive and wide-reaching skills and experience in this area.
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Pictured: Ethel and former Law Society president Richard Henderson in 2009 when she was awarded honorary membership of the Law Society The Law Society of Scotland has paid tribute to Ethel Houston OBE, one of the first women to become a partner of a Scottish law firm, who died last week aged 93.
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The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal has found Torquil MacLeod, formerly of Torquil MacLeod & Co, in Inverness, guilty of professional misconduct after he charged grossly excessive fees to an executry and failed to render fee notes in respect of the fees taken. He has been fined £3,00
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