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John McKinlay DLA Piper is advising HEINEKEN UK on its proposed acquisition of Punch Securitisation A, a portfolio of approximately 1,900 UK pubs owned by Punch Taverns plc (enterprise value £1.15 billion).

Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to support local charity Kids Love Clothes this Christmas.Kids Love Clothes provide struggling families with young children in Edinburgh and the Lothians with a wardrobe’s worth of quality, donated clothes, ironed and packed in giftbags. The charity is run entirel

Pictured (L-R): Ken Linton from Trussell Trust with Pat Rourke, Lucy Rourke, Joyce Sturrock and Lisa Mannion with Thorntons donation.

The Muslim man convicted of the “religiously motivated” murder of a Glasgow shopkeeper because of his membership of the Ahmadi sect of Islam has failed in an appeal against his sentence. Tanveer Ahmed, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 27 years after pleading guilt

Nelson Mandela (left) and Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi As the 28th Anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing approaches on 21st December Justice for Megrahi, the single issue justice campaign group which believes that the 2001 conviction of Abdeelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (pictured with Nelson Mand

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern is negotiating a merger deal that would see it make an entry into the Aberdeen market.

John Brett (left) and Shane Presley

Christopher Lindley Christopher Lindley explains how new agricultural holdings provisions will work.

Michael Matheson Air weapons owners who haven’t yet applied for a licence need to decide now what they will do with their firearm when new laws come into effect on 31 December.

Gordon Jackson QC (left) and Donald Findlay QC

Judges in the Court of Session have ordered the independence campaigners battling an eviction bid by Holyrood to have them removed from its grounds to pay £105,000 in legal bills. Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, sitting with Lord Malcolm and Lord Glennie ordered the “indie campers” to pay

Lauren Daly The Living Wage Foundation has announced that Fords Daly Legal (FDL), has today been accredited as a "Living Wage" employer.

Laura Tainsh Laura Tainsh, a partner and waste management specialist at Davidson Chalmers LLP has become the first Scottish solicitor to achieve full membership of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). As the national body for the waste and resource management industry, the CIWM sup

The special price of £99 plus VAT for Scottish Legal Training’s Criminal Law Masterclass is only available for attendees who book before January 3 2017.

Three English councils have been granted orders by the Court of Session in a landmark ruling which ensures that decisions by the High Court of England and Wales placing four children in secure accommodation north of the border are recognised and enforceable in Scotland. Judges in the Inner House of