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David Smith Legal firms with five or more partners have had a third year of growth across the sector and experienced significant income growth rates of between eight per cent and 20 per cent, fuelled by mergers and the volume of corporate transactions, according to Scottish accountants Henderson Log

Hamish Patrick The winners of the IFLR European Awards have been announced, and a deal on which Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team acted has come out on top.

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern experienced a small decrease in turnover in the financial year to 31st August 2016, partly impacted by Brexit, with the top line off by three per cent at £21 million against the previous year. In spite of a marginal slowdown in the corporate and commercial property

Professor Alison Britton Health Secretary Shona Robison has commissioned Glasgow Caledonian University’s (GCU) Professor Alison Britton to examine and report on the Scottish government’s Independent Review into Transvaginal mesh implants.

Pictured (L-R): Brandon Malone, Martin Šolc and Andrew Mackenzie

Michael Matheson

Sally Nash Sally Nash discusses how the latest record-breaking divorce case in England would be treated north of the border.

David Hughes

An Afghani national who had been refused leave to remain in the UK as a partner of a British woman has successfully challenged a decision to certify his asylum and human rights claims as “clearly unfounded”. The decision to certify his claim meant that Aziz Hussini would be unable to appeal the

Gill Grassie IP expert Gill Grassie discusses the English Court of Appeal's refusal to register Nestlé's KitKat shape.

Karen Dance

A campaign to promote LGBT+ equality in the workplace is being launched by the Law Society of Scotland and The Glass Network today. Leading public and legal figures, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Professor Hector MacQueen, will set out key principles of law and facts about LGBT+ equal

A lawyer who was sanctioned for objecting 600 times during a routine deposition had less to say when confronted by reporters. Amatuallah Booth, a senior assistant corporation counsel, for New York City’s Law Department, was reticent when approached by New York Post reporters about her bizarre beha

A bench of five judges is to review the directions to be given to a jury as to how they should treat video evidence presented to them at trial. Three judges of the High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court observed that the law was in a “state of uncertainty” and that now would be an “appropriate

Malcolm Combe Malcolm Combe dispels myths surrounding Gaelic signage.