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The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow has announced that Janet Blackstock will be taking over as Royal Faculty Auditor from Tom McCafferty on his retiral on 3 July 2017. Ms Blackstock brings a wealth of experience to the office of Royal Faculty Auditor having been appointed as sheriff clerk an
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Maurice Frankel Proposals to extend the reach of the Official Secrets Act 1989 would "threaten journalists and whistleblowers", the Campaign for Freedom of Information (CFOI) and Article 19 have warned.
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Straight in at No 1 are Siouxsie and the Banshees – no, it’s not a throwback to the era of punk, but a quizzing success for a Faculty of Advocates-dominated team!Skipper Susanne Tanner QC, hand-picked her former Crown Office colleagues, Douglas Fairley QC, and Summary Sheriff Peter McCormack, a
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A woman facing an action for payment of more than £170,000 following a “gratuitous alienation” who claimed that the statutory defences available to a challenge to such a transfer breached her human rights has had her defence dismissed. The case raised the issue of whether the terms of section 3
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Kirstie Maclennan Brodies LLP is the top ranked independent Scottish law firm in a league table of the UK’s 300 top graduate employers published by The Guardian.
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Pictured (L-R): Eilidh Wiseman and Leanne Hammell
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Stephen Gold As someone brought up with very little money, whose life has been enhanced beyond measure by education, news of further decline in the literacy and numeracy of Scotland’s children feels very personal to me. But at least social attitudes have much improved since I was a child.
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Paula Skinner Harper Macleod has advised a Glasgow-based fintech business on a six-figure investment, the first to be completed with the help of a new Glasgow City Council scheme designed to help SMEs scale up.
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John Scott MSP Holyrood's law reform committee has recommended MSPs back a bill providing a new statutory framework for third party rights.
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