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The owners of a shopping centre in Cumbernauld have succeeded in a petition for judicial review made against a decision of North Lanarkshire Council to grant planning permission for a major development near Cumbernauld Town Centre. Bridges Antonine LLP argued that the council had erred in their

Clyde & Co has announced the appointment of Vikki Melville as managing partner for Scotland. Ms Melville is an insurance lawyer who has been with the firm for 17 years since joining Simpson & Marwick in 2003, which went on to merge with Clyde & Co in October 2015.

Regulations to allow a limited number of short-term prisoners nearing the end of their time in custody to be released early have been laid in Parliament to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme is limited to those sentenced to 18 months or less and who on 4 May have 90 days or less left t

Rooney Nimmo has announced that Neil Anderson has joined the firm as a partner, based in its London and Edinburgh offices. Mr Anderson is a highly-experienced commercial lawyer who has spent his legal career focused on providing practical legal and commercial advice to public and private sector orga

Stacey Cassidy and Michael Spence have joined TLT in Scotland. Ms Cassidy joins the projects, infrastructure and construction team as a partner in Glasgow, bringing transactional construction experience and attracting clients to the firm in line with its strategic growth plan. She previously worked

Human rights lawyer John Scott QC was an obvious choice when Police Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone was looking for someone to scrutinise the force’s use of emergency coronavirus powers. Having already reviewed how Scottish police dealt with the miners’ strike as well as how th

Benjamin Bestgen explores trust and trustworthiness in his latest jurisprudential primer. See his last post here. Literature and movies are full of stories that have, either at their core or as a necessary ingredient, the topic of trust and trustworthiness. Recently, Marriage Story (2019) dealt with

DLA Piper has advised long-standing client Greencoat UK Wind on the acquisition of the South Kyle wind farm in Scotland from developer Vattenfall for £320 million once the farm begins operating in Q1 2023. South Kyle is located 5km to the east of Dalmellington on the boundary of Dumfries &

A five-year-old boy has been caught driving his mum's car in an ambitious bid to cross the United States to buy a Lamborghini. Police in Utah were stunned after they pulled over the car to find a "young, very underage driver", CNN reports.

Amidst the coronavirus pandemic which has temporarily halted normality, one pillar of Scottish society has never been far away from the headlines, writes Bryan O'Donnell. Arrigo Sacchi once proclaimed: “Football is the most important of the least important things in life”. He has cl

Tributes have been paid to Derek Ogg QC, who has passed away at the age of 65. Tony Graham QC, director of Optimum Advocates, Mr Ogg's stable, looked back on his career, noting that he took silk after only 10 years in practice.

An advocate who was alleged to have acted inappropriately in commercial proceedings regarding location-based dating apps has succeeded in having one of four complaints made against him quashed, with the other three remaining eligible for investigation. Andrew Smith QC appealed against a decisio

Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee have launched a call for views on the Scottish government's plans to update hate crime laws. MSPs want to know whether the public, including groups who may be directly impacted by the new law, support the proposals, or whether some parts o

Katherine McAlpine and Rhian Griffiths have joined Lindsays. Ms McAlpine, who joins the firm’s Dundee team as a senior solicitor, will be providing advice on a wide variety of commercial litigation matters including debt recovery, insolvency issues, contractual disputes as well as landlord and

Dr Sophie Flemig has been appointed to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Board. Dr Flemig is the chief executive of Cattanach, an independent funder supporting work with infants and very young children. Before this she was the director of public policy at the Scottish Legal Complaints Commis