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Perth-based Eden Legal has welcomed Susan Harrison as an associate solicitor. Ms Harrison brings a wealth of experience in private client matters, dispute resolution, family law, and contract negotiation.
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Perth-based Eden Legal has welcomed Susan Harrison as an associate solicitor. Ms Harrison brings a wealth of experience in private client matters, dispute resolution, family law, and contract negotiation.
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Shakespeare Martineau has welcomed its first-ever summer interns in Scotland. Charlie Phillips and Iona Robertson have each spent two weeks at the firm’s Edinburgh office, gaining valuable insight into life at a law firm.
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Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has bolstered its commercial property team with the appointment of a new associate. Stuart Dickie has joined the team based in Edinburgh’s Hope Street office.
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Extended rights of audience have been granted to five new solicitor advocates in a ceremony held at the Court of Session. Law Society of Scotland president Patricia Thom invited Lord Summers to administer the Declaration of Allegiance to the solicitor advocates as they joined the five solicitor advo
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Public sector in-house solicitor Anne Stewart has been elected as convener of the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Lawyers Committee (ILC). Ms Stewart, head of legal and corporate governance at the Scottish Social Services Council has worked in-house for more than 20 years and has been a mem
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Dean of Faculty Roddy Dunlop KC has been appointed as a judge to the Courts of Appeal in Jersey and Guernsey – prompting him to leave X, where he frequently posts. In his final post he wrote: "As the Royal Warrants have now been signed, I can confirm that this is why my TwiX journey is over, d
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Defence solicitors in Dundee are stepping up industrial action after what they described as “fruitless” talks with the Scottish government over criminal legal aid funding. Members of the Dundee Bar Association (DBA) have voted to withdraw from a scheme operating at Dundee Sheriff Court t
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The number of solicitors registered to provide legal aid in Scotland has fallen by more than 12 per cent in just three years, according to new figures. As of 26 May, there were 1,122 solicitors registered to provide criminal and children’s legal aid, while 450 firms were registered for civil l
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A survey of Scottish legal aid solicitors has revealed further evidence of a deepening crisis in access to justice, with 41 per cent of respondents either planning to stop legal aid work within two years or unsure whether they will continue. The findings come from a Law Society of Scotland survey of
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Scotland’s criminal defence solicitors are to withdraw from a new flagship summary justice scheme in protest at the Scottish government’s failure to increase legal aid rates. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) has confirmed that its members will no longer participate in imple
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Solicitors employed on the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s emergency helpline have backed strike action over changes to shift patterns, The Scotsman reports. Sixteen solicitors working on the Solicitor Contact Line voted for industrial action following complaints that management had imposed 12-hour
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A team of law students at the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice) have produced a research report in partnership with the Legal Services Agency (LSA).
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An Aberdeen law academic has been shortlisted for a prestigious Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) prize. Dr Thomas Muinzer, reader in energy transition law at the School of Law, is in the running for the 2025 Margaret Brazier Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholarship in recognition of his book, Maj
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Law lecturer Dr Samuel White has been appointed as chair of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) board of trustees. The appointment comes as NYOS prepares for its first international tour in a decade, with its flagship orchestra scheduled to perform at venues across the UK and at the Ber
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ScottishPower's top lawyer, Marion Venman, has been appointed to the Glasgow School of Art's board of governors. Ms Venman was one of four new members welcomed to the board of governors last month, alongside Dr Catriona Campbell MBE, Sarah Lavers and Jane Morrison-Ross.
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Renewable energy practitioners, academics and policy-makers gathered at the University of Aberdeen for an event focused on advancing community-led energy initiatives in the region. Community Renewables in the North East of Scotland: Looking Back, Moving Forward, held on 27 June, explored how communi
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A police force has defended spending nearly £13,000 on a coffee machine after criticism from auditors. Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia spent a total of €4.66 million on a new "innovation lab" which was originally set to cost just €250,000.
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Indonesia's human rights minister has called for a crackdown on the flying of a straw-wearing skull-and-crossbones flag from a popular Japanese anime. An online protest movement has encouraged members of the public to raise the pirate flag from TV series One Piece in place of the Indonesian flag, Th
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Helsinki has become the first European capital city to record zero road traffic deaths for an entire year. The Finnish capital is comparable in population size to Dublin, with around 1.5 million people living in or near it.
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Singers who glorify "mafia culture" face up to three years' imprisonment under a law proposed by junior members of Italy's hard-right government. Lega, a far-right party with long-standing roots in the north of Italy, has taken aim at the neomelodica genre of music associated with the southern
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A man accused of arson has said he set his apartment building on fire while trying to cremate his pet cat. Five people were displaced after the fire allegedly caused by 53-year-old Vince Hildestad, who went missing for a week afterwards.
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