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Burness Paull has recorded a successful three months, completing close to 50 corporate deals, worth more than £2.5 billion. Among a number of private equity deals, the firm advised long-standing client BlueGem, owner of fashion brand Liberty, in a deal that saw it team up with Jack Wills founder Pe

Andrew Smith QC The landmark judgment by the Supreme Court on informed consent to medical treatment has been explored in an article by the Faculty of Advocates’ Andrew Smith QC, in the prestigious BJOG International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Dominic Grieve A former Attorney General, Lord Chancellor and Director of Public Prosecutions have written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urging him to reconsider his approach to a British father on death row in Ethiopia.

Lord Keen of Elie QC The Advocate General, Lord Keen of Elie QC, 62, has been charged with a firearms offence for allegedly breaching the Firearms Act 1968 s.2 after he failed to secure a shotgun.

Lord McCluskey John McCluskey, Lord McCluskey, 87, is to be given the lifetime achievement award at the Scottish Legal Awards in Edinburgh tonight.

David Gourlay David Gourlay explains the details of the Financial Conduct Authority's discussion paper on distributed ledger technology (DLT) (DP17/3) which closes for comment on 17 July 2017.

Calum MacNeill Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC has qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the leading professional membership organisation representing the interests of private dispute-resolution practitioners worldwide.

Tributes have been paid to the late Scots lawyer and former top judge, Lord McCluskey. The widely-known legal figure was born in 1929, the son of solicitor Francis McCluskey, and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates three years after his graduation from the University of Edinburgh in 1952.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness A former Advocate General and justice minister has praised the increase in presumption against short sentences.

Lord Hughes Primers on scientific evidence are being introduced in UK courts as a working tool for judges.

International lawyers and experts have suggested Brexit is to blame for the failure of a British judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the first time. Leading legal figures told The Brief that politics had at least partly contributed to Sir Christopher Greenwood's failu

Lord Steyn Tributes have been paid to retired law lord, Lord Steyn of Swafield, who has passed away at 85.

Anuja Dhir QC An Old Bailey judge and graduate of Dundee University is to deliver a guest lecture as part of the university's Saturday Series.

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The House of Lords last night voted by a majority of 71 to keep the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after the UK leaves the European Union. Peers voted by 316 to 245 in favour of retaining the Charter after Brexit.