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Dallas McMillan has announced that Richard Andrew has been made a partner. He heads the firm’s residential property team and has been with Dallas McMillan since June 2021. Managing partner, David McElroy, said: “We are delighted to welcome Richard to the Partnership. Under his leadership

Lord Kitchin is to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the legal year, 29 September 2023. He became a Supreme Court Justice in October 2018, making him the fifth longest serving of the current justices.

An appeal by a local authority against a Lord Ordinary’s decision that it was in breach of its duty towards a homeless family that was granted asylum in the UK has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session. It was argued by Glasgow City Council that the Lord Ordinary had erred in

Murray Soutar has rejoined Turcan Connell as a partner having established a career as a specialist advisor in rural property. He first began his career with Turcan Connell as an assistant solicitor in 2007 and returns to play a key role in supporting the growth and extending the knowledge of the fir

Four men who led police on a high-speed car and helicopter chase after carrying out a £10,000 jewellery raid on a house in Lanarkshire have been sentenced to a total of six years and eight months in prison. Lawrence Connor, 26, and James Loveridge, 37, James Loveridge junior, 18, and a 17-year

Judge Síofra O'Leary, president of the European Court of Human Rights, will tonight deliver a lecture on Ireland's European connections at a government event marking St Brigid's Day. Her talk, which will focus on Ireland, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights, is t

Terra Firma Chambers’ Licensing Seminar was held at The Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh on Monday. The event was chaired by Douglas Armstrong KC and featured talks by fellow TFC members Denis Edwards and Scott Blair. Denis presented a paper which examined the significance of location in licens

Police chiefs have apologised for having "profoundly failed" the families of the 96 people unlawfully killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Leaders from the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) today set out their response to an independent report which was commissi

Ken Carruthers considers the proposed changes to the termination of commercial leases in Scotland. The Scottish Law Commission (SLC), the body in Scotland charged with proposing legal reform, has recently published a report making a number of important recommendations concerning the termination of l

Since I previously wrote about the damaging delay to Scottish gender recognition reform caused by Westminster vetoing Holyrood’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, there have been two further disquieting developments that I feel compelled to respond to, as a lawyer working to uphold th

A woman allegedly used her position as a school official to steal more than $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. Over 11,000 cases of chicken wings were ordered using the school's funds between July 2020 and February 2022, according to prosecutors in the US city of Chicago.

Following the BBC Disclosure programme investigating how a Scottish lawyer now convicted on historic child abuse charges ‘hid’ his crimes for decades, the Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland has urged the Scottish government to reform the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act

Blackadders LLP has grown its private client team with a number of new appointments across the firm's Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. Five new lawyers have joined the team in the past two months. Karen Phillips joined the firm as a partner in the Edinburgh office in December with a task to build the

Via Rebecca Samaras on LinkedIn: "Congratulations to our Edinburgh Law School Diploma in Professional Legal Practice students Jennifer Wells Nathaniel Phelan and Rachael Cartwright winners of the UK Student Mediation Competition 2023 which took place over the weekend SOAS University of London. "Than

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