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Martin Sinclair, partner at Mackinnons, reflects on the career of retiring colleague Denis Yule and wishes him well for the future. After 50 years of distinguished legal service within the profession, Denis Yule, solicitor with Mackinnons Solicitors LLP has decided to fully retire.

International human rights organisations will today begin three days of online talks, in parallel to COP26, aimed at boosting efforts to put human rights at the heart of climate policy. The symposium will bring together around 50 national human rights institutions (NHRIs) from around the globe. Dele

Setting emissions targets is crucial for companies with complexity across sectors, technologies and business structures. However, this is often the easy part, according to an insight paper from Cornwall Insight and Shoosmiths: Unlocking net zero strategies for businesses. The report explores the pot

The working day of trainees and junior associates in the City has lengthened in the past year, with many working past 10pm on average. The 2,500 lawyers who responded to a survey by Legal Cheek reported finishing times of 11.28pm at Kirkland & Ellis, 10.51pm at Ropes & Gray and 10.17pm

A former art museum boss has gone on trial for allegedly spending millions of euros in public funds to buy works of art she knew to be fake. Consuelo Císcar, the 76-year-old former director of Spain's Valencia Institute of Modern Art (Ivam), has been charged with perverting the course of just

The High Court of Justiciary has increased by five years the sentence of a man jailed on charges of attempted rape and sexual assault of two male complainers, including a teenager, following an appeal by the Crown. Michael McCarthy, the respondent, was originally sentenced to five years’ impri

Edinburgh lawyers have asked the court service to retract a letter which gives an "inaccurate" account of an incident in which a solicitor was removed from a court building on Saturday. Claims made by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) about the solicitor's actions have been challenged

Controversial and widely opposed plans to take civil justice online will have a "destructive effect on feelings of community amongst litigation practitioners", a lawyer has said. Andrew Stevenson, SLAS secretary, told Scottish Legal News that the pandemic had disrupted the civil court system "on a s

Pictured (L-R): Neil Risk and Willie Shannon of Anderson Strathern (by Dave Donaldson) Anderson Strathern has made a director hire at its Lerwick office in Shetland, with Willie Shannon joining the team.

Richard Hepburn, MD, Millar & Bryce, takes a look at the latest residential property data. The property market has clearly ebbed and flowed throughout 2020 and 2021; there was a low when the property market was forced to temporarily close amid Covid lockdowns before the highs emerged following t

Rebecca Barrass takes a look at Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners v McLaughlin & Harvey Limited. A recent appeal hearing before the Inner House of the Court of Session has confirmed that in circumstances where parties have a contractual agreement to use an alternative dispute resolution mechanis

David Flint, Balfour and Manson litigation partner, retired at the end of last month. Here he looks back at his 40-year career in legal practice. I think I was the last of the apprentice generation starting with Guild and Guild WS in Rutland Square Edinburgh in 1979. Even before I was qualified, I w

Aberdeen house prices rose 2.3 per cent in the last quarter, a new report shows. Published by Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited, in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research – the data also indicate that:

Douglas Roberts, partner in Lindsays' corporate and commercial team, has advised another firm on its transition to employee ownership as the Highlands-based business, Reid & Fraser, became Scotland’s first employee-owned full-service accountancy firm. All shares in Reid & Fraser Charte

Shockwaves reverberated through the cycling community recently when a jury returned a ‘not proven’ verdict against a car driver, Jordan McDowall, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. The 21-year-old was acquitted of causing the death of 51 year-old cyclist, Kevin Gilchrist, by