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Burness Paull has announced that its private capital team has been awarded "Platinum Employer Partner" status, the highest level of accreditation of the STEP Employer Partnership Programme. The team currently has four full members of STEP, with two more close to qualifying.

Ameeta Panesar The Scotland real estate team at DAC Beachcroft has advised Liberty Retirement Living (Chapelton) Limited on the acquisition of a site in Aberdeenshire, which closed at the beginning of September.

A FTSE 100 company which is seeking to enforce a contractual restriction preventing a former employee setting up a rival partnership business has had a motion for interim interdict refused. A judge in the Court of Session said she was not persuaded to exercise her discretion by granting the interim

Kevin Stewart New legislation to simplify and improve the planning system has been set out by local government minister Kevin Stewart.

Neil Mackenzie The Faculty of Advocates has appointed a new director of training and education, Neil Mackenzie, who becomes the sixth member to hold the post.

Murdo Fraser A members' bill intended to crack down on rogue private parking firms is being launched at Holyrood this week.

Kate Allen Boris Johnson must put a strategic plan in place to help protect people who are putting their lives at risk to fight human rights abuses around the world, Amnesty International has said as it released new findings about the global dangers faced by activists.

Michael O’Flaherty Persistent widespread discrimination, intolerance and hatred across the EU threatens to marginalise and alienate many minority group members who otherwise feel largely attached to the country they live in and trust its institutions, according to findings from a major repeat surv

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

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).

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

Mike Dailly Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly suggests a solution to the problem of competing governing clauses.

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