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Shamima Begum has failed in her appeal over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship because she is a threat to national security. The semi-secret Special Immigration Appeals Commission decided today that the revocation of her citizenship in 2019 was lawful.

Digby Brown recently successfully challenged an argument advanced by a defender regarding the application of section 8(4) of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (‘the 2018 Act’). Sections 8(1) and (2) of this Act contain important provisions restrict

The employment law issues currently being faced by the modern workforce will be considered at CLT Scotland’s Employment Conference taking place exclusively in-person on Monday 6 March at the Hilton Glasgow. Chaired by Morton Fraser’s Lindsey Cartwright, the conference will include topics

Macdonald Henderson has advised Opulus in joining forces with Wylie & Bisset and on a £10 million growth capital facility to support further expansion plans of the enlarged group provided by SME Capital. Macdonald Henderson’s advisory team was led by David Beveridge and Ryan Macready

Organisations supporting victims of crime in Scotland will receive a £500,000 boost from a fund that takes money from offenders. Seven organisations – including Victim Support Scotland and Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland – will share grant funding to provide practical he

The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on

The shareholders of a liquidated company that owned a £3.25 million property in Edinburgh have succeeded in a reclaiming motion challenging a Lord Ordinary’s decision to refuse to grant them decree for payment of their shares of the sale proceeds. Colonnade Properties Ltd and other trust

Scottish Land & Estates has announced the appointment of Jackie McCreery as in-house counsel. She was formerly director of policy & parliamentary affairs at Scottish Land & Estates and its predecessor body SRPBA until 2011 and returns to advise on all aspects of existing and emergin

Edinburgh Law School’s Professor Nehal Bhuta is to present a lecture entitled Recovering Social Rights. In the aftermath of a 40-year dismantling of post-war welfare and developmental states, the argument goes, economic and social rights are merely straws in the wind, legalistic arguments whic

TLT has advised Santander UK on its multi-million pound funding to global clean energy enterprise, TagEnergy. The funding supports the construction and operation of two landmark battery storage facilities: the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife, Scotland; and the 49MW/98MWH Jamesfield de

Tidman Legal founder and intellectual property solicitor, Oliver Tidman, has been appointed to the advisory panel at the Institute of Directors (IoD). Mr Tidman, who was recently recognised as a Leading Individual by World IP Review 2023, is currently the only legal advisor based in Scotland on the

Burges Salmon has advised First Bus, a division of transport group FirstGroup plc, on the acquisition of Essex bus company Ensign Bus Company Limited (Ensignbus). Aberdeen-headquartered FirstGroup is the second largest regional bus operator in the UK, serving two-thirds of the UK’s 15 largest

The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, has welcomed a review of diversion from prosecution in Scotland which has concluded the practice is working well and developing in a positive direction. Diversion from prosecution is one of a range of community justice interventions available to the Crown Office a

Juries in England and Wales are more likely to convict than acquit a defendant of rape, and this has been the case for at least 15 years, according to a large-scale analysis of all jury verdicts by University College London’s Professor Cheryl Thomas. The analysis found that the jury conviction

A rare book on chess which was stolen from a school library nearly 70 years ago has been anonymously returned with £50 and an apology. The fourth edition copy of Rev E E Cunnington's The Modern Chess Primer was recently returned to Elgin Academy in the north of Scotland, The Herald reports.