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Two new members have been welcomed to the Faculty of Advocates, and reminded of their role in helping the 21st century bar to serve Scotland and its people. Jacqueline Fordyce and Roddy MacLeod were admitted to membership of the Faculty, and to the public office of advocate.
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A City lawyer accused of committing sexual offences against a woman during a rush-hour encounter outside Waterloo station will face no further action, The Times reports. Graeme Stening, 52, a leading private equity lawyer, has waited eight months for the decision.
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The right to be forgotten online will be the subject of debate on Thursday evening as some of the most talented young debaters in Scotland take part in the final of the 2016 Law Society of Scotland Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament. It is the culmination of a tournament that involved 128 tea
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A sheriff has ruled that “human error” was responsible for the death of a pensioner who suffered inflammation of the lungs and ahypoglycaemic brain injury after being given the wrong medication by her pharmacy. Margaret Forrest, 86, contracted bronchopneumonia and suffered cardiac amyloidosis as
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Harriet Harman In a new report, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for stronger safeguards governing lawyer-client confidentiality in the Snoopers’ Charter.
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Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has been appointed as principal external legal advisers to the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB), Scotland’s insolvency service, for the next four years.
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'Call for action as 1 in 4 GP practices has a vacancy'. So said The Herald a few weeks ago. And it is interesting to note the deified medical profession is now suffering from a similar set of factors as we in the legal profession have experienced. Let me explain.
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Following the introduction of new licensing laws, more than 4,000 air weapons have been handed over to the police. The highest number so far was in the north-east, where authorities received 530 weapons.
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A name containing several tokens of nobility and freely chosen by a German in another member state of which he also holds the nationality does not necessarily have to be recognised in Germany, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Mr Nabiel Peter Bogendorff von Wolffersdorff, who was born in Germ
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Roddy MacLeod Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to announce that Roddy MacLeod has joined the stable having called to the bar today.
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Kenneth Shand Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) has promoted 26 lawyers as it continues to reward up-and-coming talent.
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Professor Pieter Bekker The Scottish Arbitration Centre welcomed a group of visiting students from the University of Dundee’s centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy recently.
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