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Peter O'Donnell Lawyers at Thompsons Solicitors are working with former employees of Glasgow-based Land Engineering Scotland Ltd in a legal action to secure a better redundancy package.

Burness Paull LLP has appointed four new partners as its new management team officially takes the helm. With effect from 1st August 2018, Peter Lawson takes over as chairman while Tamar Tammes moves into the role of managing partner.

Thorntons has welcomed an experienced property manager to its team to cover South and West Fife. Gavin Venters, who has 19 years’ experience in property valuations, has been appointed as Dunfermline property manager.

A record number of adults concerned about children phoned the NSPCC helpline in the last 12 months. The helpline service received nearly 85,000 contacts from April 2020 to March 2021, a 23 per cent increase on the previous year.

Macdonald Henderson has advised Robert Burns and Peter Hume and their families on the sale of two well-established Glasgow day nursery settings – Sinclair Nursery and Victoria Park Kindergarten – to Bright Stars which owns over 80 settings across England and Scotland. Sinclair Nursery, w

Aberdein Considine has relocated its main legal and wealth teams in Aberdeen to Blenheim House in the city’s west end. The firm’s head office has been located on Bon Accord Crescent since 1986. This will continue to house the business support, conveyancing, leasing and lender service tea

From left: Brandon Malone, Penelope Warne and Professor Peter Cameron

Graeme McKinstry (left) and Peter Sharp Ayr based law firm The McKinstry Company has acquired the Girvan practice of Murray & Tait.

Peter Alderdice An ineffective system of governance for the financial sector is to be overhauled next year, writes Peter Alderdice.

A High Court judge let his irritation get the better of him after an airline which had lost his luggage appeared before him in a case. Mr Justice Peter Smith asked British Airways what it had done with his bags but it declined to answer before requesting the judge recuse himself.

A robber in Fife had cold water poured over his plans to steal from a betting shop after an unfazed bookmaker ripped up his ransom note The Courier reports. Barry Shepherd, 40, attempted to hold up a Scotbet shop, handing Peter Morris a threatening note in January.

The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) is looking into the conduct of a High Court judge who heard a case involving British Airways a fortnight after the airline lost his luggage. Justice Peter Smith excused himself from a major case involving the airline in July after he repeatedly asked

(L-R): Peter Griffiths, and Brian Inkster, Photo Credit: Kat Gollock Inksters Solicitors has sponsored a new award category at the Arts & Business Scotland Awards 2015 for "Business Creativity". The award was the brainchild of Inksters’ founder, Brian Inkster, who persuaded his fellow judges t

(L-R) Judge Ian Forrester QC and Peter Sellar

The Eurodevils with, left, Peter Sellar, and, right, Charles Mullin of the European Lawyers Association.