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Solicitor Pat Thom has been nominated as president-elect 2025/26 of the Law Society of Scotland. Ms Thom's career has spanned criminal and civil legal work in both Canada and Scotland and she has worked in-house and in private practice for several years. She has been a Law Society Council member sin

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Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee has said the funding situation facing the criminal justice sector is unsustainable and a new approach must be adopted. This should encompass a vision for the sector based on long-term wholesale reform rather than the current approach of small uplifts each year t

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Govan Law Centre (GLC) has announced the appointment of Rachel Moon as a partner in the firm of Dailly, Moon & Co., Solicitors at Govan Law Centre. Mike Dailly, principal solicitor and solicitor advocate, said: “Rachel has been a senior solicitor at the law centre for a number of years hea

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Distinctive multicoloured briefs led to the arrest of a robbery suspect over a year after the crime. On September 14, 2022, three masked men robbed a tobacco shop in Queens, New York, with two brandishing guns and a third emptying the cash register.

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Bellwether Green and Addleshaw Goddard are the top legal advisers in the latest Experian United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review. The YTD 2023 report details that both firms advised on 12 deals. Brodies followed with 10; DWF with nine and Pinsent Masons with eight.

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Gibson Kerr has appointed Jamie Robertson to the firm’s property department to strengthen the company’s residential conveyancing team in Edinburgh. Having qualified in 2014, he brings with him an abundance of knowledge of the property sector.

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Geert Wilders, known for anti-Islam comments, gets 1st crack at forming Dutch government

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An inflatable Whopper the size of a car garage was spotted tumbling through the streets of a city in Oregon this month. The inflatable Whopper broke free of its ties at a local Burger King in Newberg before blowing away and crashing into a smoke shop, catching air and taking down a US flag and caree

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Blackadders LLP has bolstered its business services team in Glasgow with the appointment of John Elder as a commercial property partner. Mr Elder has joined the firm from Shepherd and Wedderburn and has more than 25 years’ experience in commercial real estate. He specialises in cross-border tr

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