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Dentons has announced the appointment of Lisa Sewell as managing director for the UK & Middle East region, replacing Brandon Ransley, who retired earlier this year. Ms Sewell has over 20 years' experience in driving business performance and change in multinational organisations. She arrives foll

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Fraser Sutherland, campaigns manager at Humanist Society Scotland, calls for dead letter blasphemy laws to be scrapped. Last week when talking to friends about the campaign work Humanist Society Scotland, they expressed surprise that Scotland still has a common law offence against blasphemy. To be f

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The seventh annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network conference was hosted at the University of Dundee yesterday. The opening keynote address was given by Mike Dailly of Govan Law Centre and there were other contributions on the day about: the Scottish University Land Unit (a partnership with D

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Alastair McKie looks at the details of major planning legislation wending its way through Holyrood. The Planning (Scotland) Bill was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 4th December 2017, and is currently working its way through the legislative process. The bill contains a wide range measures int

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The judiciary in England and Wales has changed its web address to "reflect the constitutionally independent position of the judiciary".The website has moved from www.judiciary.gov.uk to www.judiciary.uk as of this week.In a statement, the Judicial Office said "all links to previous website

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Harper Macleod has announced the biggest ever round of promotions in its 30-year history. Forty-two solicitors in the firm have been promoted to new positions, including two new partners – Jo Nisbet and Limor Wolfe in the firm's corporate and real estate teams respectively – who take the

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TLT Solicitors has announced a 10 per cent increase in fee income to hit £82m for the financial 2017/18 – the first full financial year since the launch of its new strategy to 2020. Activity levels were up across the firm's transactional, advisory and disputes services driven by new

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The Director of Public Prosecutions has apologised after a review found that 47 rape or sexual offence cases were stopped because evidence had not been disclosed to the defence. Outgoing Crown Prosecution Service head, Alison Saunders, told the Commons Justice Committee that disclosure was a “

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Bonar Mercer looks at a fresh consultation on proposed reforms to the limited partnerships regime. Scottish Limited Partnership (SLPs) (as well as English Limited Partnerships) are a type of business structure formed under the Limited Partnership Act 1907. Unlike English Limited Partnership, SLPs ha

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TLT has appointed Douglas Gourlay as a partner in its Glasgow office, building on the firm's national strength in banking and finance. Mr Gourlay joins TLT from national firm Weightmans, where he established the Scottish banking team and led the firm’s UK real estate finance practice. His trac

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Selling prices for residential property across east central Scotland rose by 8.2 per cent on average over the past three months of March, April and May compared with the same months of spring last year, according to the latest house price report by ESPC, property experts in east central Scotland. Av

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