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A senior solicitor at Blackadders has been awarded two Worldwide Excellence Awards for having the highest mark in her accounts exam and the highest overall mark on the STEP Diploma. Taylor Henry is one of only a handful of Scottish winners of the Excellence Awards from the global professional body t

Jack Boyle of Blackadders examines a recent case concerning an allegation of discrimination arising from disability. Employers will be familiar with the requirement to take into account all the circumstances of the case in any particular disciplinary scenario. The usual factors such as the employee&

Lawyers have underscored the escalating risks that companies face for failing to adequately safeguard children's data. Video games companies, social media platforms and companies using facial recognition technology have all recently come under fire from data protection regulators across Europe for n

Blackadders LLP has announced the appointment of Neil Robb as head of the firm’s commercial property team. Since qualifying as a solicitor in 1992, he has practised in Aberdeen acting for a wide range of clients throughout Scotland. He was a founding partner of Plenderleath Runcie, which merge

Blackadders LLP has announced a series of promotions across its Scottish offices. Dario Demarco becomes legal director, Richard Wilson, Robyn Lee and Susan Currie all become associates whilst Blair Duncan and Stefan Docherty take up the roles of senior solicitor.

Roman MacKenzie explores the Gary Lineker and BBC saga through an employment law lens. Welcome back to another classic matchup. The build-up has been immense and the fan interest has never been higher, taking the nation by storm: the BBC’s social media policy vs Gary Lineker’s personal v

The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on

Walk through any city or major town and you will inevitably pass numerous big, shiny, new buildings and office blocks. Pre-pandemic there seemed to be a race among big firms to offer their employees almost palatial surroundings in which to carry out the day to day of their job. While there has been

Blackadders LLP has grown its private client team with a number of new appointments across the firm's Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. Five new lawyers have joined the team in the past two months. Karen Phillips joined the firm as a partner in the Edinburgh office in December with a task to build the

Blackadders has appointed Annie Fleming to the newly created role of chief financial officer. Ms Fleming will have responsibility for all the financial actions of the firm including ensuring compliance with the Law Society of Scotland Account rules, billing and credit control, cashflow manageme

Blackadders LLP has welcomed back Karen Phillips as a partner in its private client team in Edinburgh. Following her graduation from Dundee University in 2003, she joined Blackadders and qualified as a solicitor in 2005.

Blackadders has appointed Lindsey Brown as a partner in the firm's private client team in Dundee. Ms Brown has a broad range of experience in various practice areas including residential conveyancing, family law matters, executries, powers of attorney, wills, inheritance tax planning and asset prote

Blackadders has announced the appointment of Leanne Gordon as director in its rural land and business team. Since qualifying in 2012, Ms Gordon has developed her legal skills in rural practice, having dealt with a wide range of rural matters including mineral, sporting and fishing rights, crofting l

Blackadders has been announced as the official legal partner for the first-ever Scottish Games Week. The law firm will be sponsoring the entire roster of Scottish Games Week events taking place across Scotland from 24 to 28 October.

Blackadders has welcomed a new cohort of trainees to the firm. The trainees will undertake a two-year programme working across the firm's Scottish network of offices, gaining expertise and skills in a diverse range of legal disciplines.