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Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Clare Lamond as a managing associate. Previously at DWF, she has over 25 years' experience advising clients on all aspects of real estate work in Scotland.

Watermans Legal has appointed Tzana Webster as head of property sales. She joins the Watermans team with 15 years of experience in the Edinburgh property market having relocated to Scotland from Texas.

Clarity Simplicity has announced a number of promotions and appointments. Shannon Gaughan and Craig Chisholm have been promoted to senior solicitor, while Susan Grierson and Dionne Hunter have joined as solicitors.

Law At Work (LAW) has welcomed four new trainees to its employment law team. Reece Ashmore, Sarah Fairley, Zoe Kerr and David Mitchell commenced their traineeships with LAW last month.

The family of an Irish-born woman have won the right to include an Irish language epitaph without an English translation on her gravestone in Coventry. Margaret Keane, who was born in Co Meath but lived in Coventry since the 1950s, was widely known for her dedication to the GAA in the UK.

Over the last few years you may have seen headlines telling you how much you would have made if you’d invested in Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc. Companies like these have been coined ‘unicorns’; the term first used in 2013 by Aileen Lee (New York Times). A unicorn is a privately hel

Former President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, is to speak at this year's Women in Law seminar, hosted by the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA). The annual event brings together a number of high profile and inspiring women from the legal community to share their personal experiences

A juror caught reading a golf magazine during a robbery trial has been fined for contempt. David Barron, 60, found himself in the dock at Southampton Crown Court after browsing bargain golf clubs from the jury box.

An appeal by the executors of a late farmer’s estate against a sheriff’s decision that a right of pre-emption in the feu disposition of his farm had survived the abolition of feudal tenure has been refused by the Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court. Turcan Connell (Trustees)

A lawyer who assisted in running a £1.6 million scheme to defraud vulnerable people out of their homes has been struck off. John Craxton, 60, was hired by Edwin Mclaren, 55, who targeted householders in financial difficulty and induced them to transfer ownership in their homes unknowingly.&nbs

A law centre has re-launched itself today to meet the high demand for legal advice in Dundee. Demand for legal advice and services from some of the most vulnerable people in the city has grown dramatically over the past year, according to Dundee Law Centre.

Crime declined by 38 per cent after the first lockdown last year, according to new findings. The data are based on a sample of around 2,700 telephone interviews conducted in September and October 2020 in a survey designed to be nationally representative of all private residential households in Scotl

Bruce Erroch QC has been appointed to the office of sheriff in the Sheriffdom of North Strathclyde, based at Paisley Sheriff Court and will take up office on 1 May. He graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of Glasgow in 1989. He was a solicitor until 1997 and was admitted to the Faculty of Advoca

Balfour and Manson has promoted Adelle Walker to senior associate and Lauren Smith to associate. Ms Walker joined the firm in April 2019 as an associate, before which she was a senior solicitor with Digby Brown and a solicitor with Thorntons. She has significant experience in personal inju

Immigration specialist John Vassiliou has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn amid rising demand from clients for business and personal immigration advice following the UK’s departure from the European Union. Mr Vassiliou, who joins the firm from McGill & Co, where he was a partner, brings 10 y