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Addleshaw Goddard has launched its search for the best high-growth tech businesses to join its AG Elevate programme – an accelerator for those looking to scale up. AG Elevate is a fast-track 10-month programme designed to advance tech businesses in all sectors of the economy through legal chal

Pinsent Masons' Fred Banning has passed away at the age of 40 after a period of illness. Mr Banning was a highly respected and widely known legal communications professional and founder of Fifth Day. He was a valued member of Pinsent Masons for 13 years, having joined McGrigors in the summer of 2010

A judge of the High Court of England and Wales has dismissed a representative claim for misuse of private information brought against Google UK arising from its partnership with a London NHS Trust to develop an app for clinical treatment. Andrew Prismall sought to bring a claim for damages on behalf

A woman who tried to board a plane wearing six kilograms of clothing to avoid a baggage fee has been fined. Adriana Ocampo, a 19-year-old from Australia, filmed her attempted travel hack on a flight from Melbourne to Adelaide, the New York Post reports.

Blackadders has appointed Sylvia McCullagh as a legal director in its property team. She joins from Balfour Manson and brings with her extensive conveyancing experience. Based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, she will build on the achievements of the residential property and will work closely w

A record €1.2 billion fine is to be imposed on Facebook owner Meta following GDPR breaches related to personal data transfers between the EU/EEA and the US. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) initially proposed not imposing a fine on Meta in its draft decision last summer, but was overr

Scotland’s rural land is only available to a limited few as demand from forestry, natural capital investment, and corporate estate buyers continues to drive high prices, according to a new report by the Scottish Land Commission. The Rural Land Market Insights Report 2023 underlines the need fo

Davidson Chalmers Stewart has appointed dispute resolution solicitor Ewan McIntyre to its Glasgow team as a partner. Mr McIntyre's career, spanning more than 30 years, has seen him work with firms such as Burness Paull and Morton Fraser where he was head of the firm’s litigation division and a

A note of objection challenging the decision of the auditor not to allow an organisation involved in supplying milk to Scottish schools and nurseries to recover fees for an English firm of solicitors as judicial expenses has been allowed by a lord ordinary. The School and Nursery Milk Alliance Ltd,

A controversial 18th-century monument has been removed from St Peter's Church in Dorchester.

Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling have announced a planned merger to create Allen Overy Shearman Sterling. A&O Shearman, as the firm will be known, will have about 3,900 lawyers and and some 800 partners across 49 offices. Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling have 250 years

Highlands solicitor advocate Roderick Urquhart is to retire after four decades in the law, The Press and Journal reports. Mr Urquhart was educated in Aberdeen – at Robert Gordon's College and thereafter at Aberdeen University.

Three secondary schools will next month go head-to-head in the final of a public speaking contest. Pupils from The Royal High School, Edinburgh; Shawlands Academy, Glasgow; and St Peter the Apostle, Clydebank, will battle it out for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) national sch

Former Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, Craig Turnbull, has been installed as a senator of the College of Justice. He has taken the title of Lord Colbeck following the ceremony at Parliament House, which was led by the Lord President Lord Carloway.

Last month the University of Dundee Mooting Society attended the inaugural International Football Arbitration Moot in Platja d’Aro, Spain.