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Anderson Strathern is advising Elgin Energy around Scotland’s largest solar farm at the former RAF base at Milltown in Moray. The 50 megawatt (MW) solar park, which received approval from the Scottish government last week, will likely power a combination of thousands of homes and electric cars

Addleshaw Goddard’s corporate team in Scotland has advised on more than £500 million worth of transactions in 2018 so far. From January to May, the team advised on over 10 deals across sectors including real estate, manufacturing, energy and technology.

The bosses of firms which make nuisance calls could face fines of up to £500,000 under UK government proposals to hold them personally liable. A consultation on the plans is being launched, though the idea was first proposed in 2016 and was meant to be in place last year.

Workers posted temporarily to another EU country must get equal pay for equal work in the same place under new rules agreed by the European Parliament yesterday.The revised rules, approved 456-147 with 49 abstentions, aim to ensure better protection for posted workers and fair competition

Blackadderes' incapacity law team managed to bag a total of 15 Munros raising (to date) a total of £2,504.36 for Alzheimer Scotland. They completed: Ben Lawers (5), White Mounth (5), The Cairnwell Munros (3) and Glen Clova (2). ⛰️

The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) has launched a public consultation on the case management of family and civil partnership actions in the Sheriff Court. The consultation will run until 22 August 2018. The SCJC’s Family Law Committee is considering ways to improve how family actions ar

An appeal against a sheriff’s ruling on appeal from a children’s hearing should be an “exceptional” occurrence since there is a right of review of the original decision after three months, and the European Convention on Human Rights is not intended to provide a “catch-a

A Holyrood committee has welcomed the Scottish Crown Estate Bill in a report published today, while also suggesting ways it could be strengthened. The Scottish Parliament’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee made a series of recommendations followings its examination of the

New figures show a decline in Scotland’s murder rate and an increase in reports of rape, The Herald reports. Unofficial police numbers show murder has fallen to a 40-year low, with 59 killings in 2017-18, one of the smallest figures since 1976. In 2004-05, there were 137 criminally violent dea

Congratulations are due to the University of Dundee, which has been ranked third for law in this year’s Guardian University guide. The university tweeted: “We're elated with this result, and many thanks to all those staff, administrators and students that made it possible!”

Writing for Scottish Legal News, Scottish Conservative MSP Liam Kerr responds to colleague Gordon Lindhurust MSP's article in the SLN Annual Review on the proposed removal of the reasonable chastisement defence. Recently my friend and colleague Gordon Lindhurst MSP expressed his surprise in an artic

Thursday 21st June, Aberdeen Grammar School FP Club,

More than a third of criminal barristers are considering leaving the profession, largely due to cuts to the legal aid budget, The Brief reports. Almost 50 per cent of those thinking about leaving cite funding as their main concern.

The Scottish legal profession will have a formal presence at Pride Edinburgh this year for the first time. The Glass Network is partnering with Womble Bond Dickinson to attend Pride Edinburgh on Saturday 16 June 2018.

Some US news websites have become inaccessible from most European countries following the introduction of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Newspapers owned by Tronc Inc. — including the Chicago Tribune, LA Times, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun and Sun-Sentinel — are