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CMS has announced the appointment of Julie Devlin, who joins the firm’s finance practice group as an of counsel. She will be based in Glasgow. Ms Devlin joins from Dentons, bringing a wealth of experience in the specialist area of regulated credit and hire. She began her career in 1991 as a tr

The SYLA recently published the results of a survey on retention issues within the legal profession. Well done them. Much needed and with the number of responses received totally statistically significant. Seventy-seven per cent of responses were from Glasgow and Edinburgh and 11 per cent from Dunde

It’s been a challenging start to 2020 for foreign exchange operator Travelex which became the latest global business to be targeted by a ransomware gang known as “Sodinokibi”, writes Ian Birdsey. Travelex, which has more than 1,200 branches and 1,000 ATMs spread over 70 countries,

Congratulations to Edinburgh Law School’s Rebecca Stafford, Anna Bruce and Simon Roudh who placed 3rd in the UK Student Mediation Competition 2020.

Pictured (L-R): Dorothy MacGinty, headmistress of Kilgraston School, Nyree Conway and Kilgraston pupils School pupils in Perthshire have heard from a family law expert about a career in the legal profession.

The former stockbroker whose memoir was adapted into Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has accused the film's production company of fraud. Jordan Belfort created a stock manipulation scheme and was subsequently jailed for securities fraud in 1999.

A couple who sued their upstairs neighbours over the noise coming from a Saniflo toilet have had their “nuisance” claim dismissed by a court. Retired solicitor James Morris and his wife Carol Morris, a former court shorthand writer, described the noise from the toilet and

Lord Bracadale is to lead an independent public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh. The appointment of Lord Bracadale, a former Senator of the College of Justice, was announced by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.

Aberdein Considine has appointed a new partner and senior associate. Gemma Perfect, who is based at the firm’s flagship headquarters in Aberdeen, has been promoted from associate to partner in the commercial real estate team. Ms Perfect joined Aberdein Considine as a trainee solicitor in 2007

The Scottish government is consulting on which bodies it should add to legislation to give them data sharing powers in respect of debt and fraud. Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 introduces new information-sharing powers to reduce debt owed to, or fraud against, the public sector.

The Supreme Court will hand down judgment in FMX Food Merchants Import Export Co Ltd (Respondent) v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Appellant), UKSC 2018/0218 next Wednesday. The issue in the case, which is on appeal from the Court of Appeal Civil Division, is:

The latest episode in the MacCormick Conversations sees Professor Janet Hiebert of Queen's University, Canada, chat with Professor Stephen Tierney and Pablo Grez Hidalgo about her work on assessing legislative competence.

Have you recently been on a tour of the Supreme Court with your school? Did your visit spark an interest in the law? Are you considering studying law at university? Or perhaps you have a general interest in how the justice system works here in the UK. If you're an S5 or S6 pupil in Scotland or Year

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A lawyer has been forced to pay over £2,000 after a bust-up in the front row of an opera house. Matthew Feargrieve, a solicitor specialising in corporate and investment funds law, was sentenced this week after being found guilty of common assault last month, MyLondon reports.