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The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a former company director whose defences against the company’s liquidators’ claims of illegitimate payments were rejected by the sheriff as lacking in specification, concurring that his averments amounted mainly to “bold statements
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Dr Tracy Kirk, child and family law lecturer at the University of Stirling, has been appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland (YAS). Dr Kirk is among 48 exceptional new members selected from across academia, business, the public sector, charities and the arts to join Y
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Ryan Macready has joined gunnercooke as a partner to build his own corporate practice. The corporate lawyer departed Dallas McMillan at the end of last week, shortly before the firm's merger with Lindsays took effect, where he had served as partner and head of corporate, building the firm's corporat
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Aberdein Considine LLP has strengthened its debt recovery and banking litigation department with two key appointments for England and Wales. Accomplished costs and debt recovery lawyer Victoria-Louise Maugham joins the firm’s lender services practice group (LSPG) as head of unsecured recoverie
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Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Keith Bishop as a legal director in its Edinburgh construction team. A highly experienced construction lawyer, Mr Bishop is dual-qualified in Scotland and England and Wales, and has advised on both contentious and transactional construction matters throughou
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Dr Eleanor Russell has been appointed as an honorary professor of law at Robert Gordon University. Dr Russell is a qualified solicitor and practised as such before entering academia in 1994. She has over 30 years’ experience as a legal academic. She has acted as an external examiner at f
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Freeths has announced the appointment of John Jones as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Mr Jones will work across Freeths’ 12 UK offices and will be responsible for shaping and delivering the firm’s technology strategy. His role will focus on ensuring Freeths has secure, resilient
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Lecturers at Edinburgh Law School have been awarded funding by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research for their research project examining live facial recognition governance. Dr Lachlan Urquhart, senior lecturer in technology law and human-computer interaction at Edinburgh Law School, and Dr D
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A new blog by Mabel Omolola Demokun for the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law examines the health and safety challenges posed by the rapid expansion of the offshore wind industry. The article considers issues raised at a May workshop funded by the National Decommissioning Centre, including t
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As part of the Scottish Peace Programme, Edinburgh Law School (ELS) hosted the Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship last month.
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Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have played a significant role in the development of a landmark international treaty designed to better protect the world's oceans, following the UK's formal ratification of the agreement last month. The UK has joined more than 90 countries in ratify
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The inaugural Sir Alexander Stone Lecture lecture at the University of Glasgow will be delivered by Professor Irene-marie Esser on 8 October, with a response given by Lord Braid. Professor Esser was appointed to the Sir Alexander Stone chair in commercial law last year and will be hosting an annual
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The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for construction to continue on a $400 million (£297m) ballroom at the White House, ruling 5-4 in favour of the Trump administration. The order blocks lower-court decisions that had paused work on the above-ground structure.
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The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has successfully blocked a businessman's bid to trademark "Dr Watson" for a clothing line. Joel Brown had applied to register the name for leisurewear, sportswear, footwear and headgear. The Conan Doyle family objected, arguing it clashed with their existing "Dr Wats
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Police in India recovered jewellery worth around ₹400,000 (£3,087) after CCTV footage showed that the suspected thief was a stray dog. Lata Bai, a woman from Kayampur, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, reported that a bag containing gold and silver jewellery, around ₹2,000 in cash and food h
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Two men named Dan Sullivan are competing in Alaska’s Senate race, but only one has secured the endorsement of another politician – who is also named Dan Sullivan. Sen Dan S Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, was endorsed by former Anchorage mayor Dan A Sullivan last week ahead of Novemb
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A US judge has identified what appears to be the first attempt by a plaintiff to hide instructions in a court filing designed to manipulate an AI system reviewing the document. Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr said Matthew Elliott used text formatted in tiny white type on a white background to ins
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