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ETZ Ltd has appointed Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP to support its plans to reposition the North East of Scotland as a globally recognised integrated energy cluster. Following a competitive tender, Shepherd and Wedderburn has been selected to advise ETZ Ltd on all corporate, property and construction,

The average fraudulent insurance claim has risen by six per cent since 2019, with figures reaching £12,000, according to the latest figures published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

PRIME Commitment, the alliance of law firms across the UK and Ireland created to improve socioeconomic diversity within the legal profession, is marking its tenth anniversary with an online conference reflecting on its first decade, and looking ahead to further action law firms should take to improv

Certain provisions of bills passed by the Scottish Parliament are outside its legislative competence, the Supreme Court has ruled. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (UNCRC) and the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotl

Essay mills – companies offering to provide students with essays in exchange for money – are to be made illegal in England under plans announced by the UK government yesterday. The government intends to make it a criminal offence to provide, arrange or advertise these "cheating services

Despite recent fashionable and temporary claims to the contrary, individuals are complex. David Black makes a plea in mitigation for the rightly reviled Henry Dundas. But what of Marie Stopes, eugenicist and Nazi sympathiser, who sent love poetry to the Führer himself? A blue plaque in Abe

A man who paid nearly €4,500 to a psychic to have her remove a curse on his marriage is suing her after his relationship failed to improve. California man Mauro Restrepo was told by "psychic love specialist" Sophia Adams that his marriage was suffering because an ex-girlfriend had him cursed by

Zoe McDonnell details new driving offences soon to find their way onto the statute book. It is highly likely that certain UK-wide driving laws will be changed in the near future. These changes include:

DLA Piper has announced the appointment of Allan Leal as a partner based in Edinburgh. Mr Leal has joined the firm’s finance practice from Burness Paull, where he has been a partner since 2018.

A Wick man has been fined for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries. William Swanson, who traded as LTS Construction, pled guilty to a breach of working at height regulations at Wick Sheriff Court on 4 October 2021. He was fined £2,000

Law firm Gilson Gray has taken over fellow Dundee law firm Baillie Shepherd as it pursues further growth in the city. The deal will see all Baillie Shepherd employees join the Gilson Gray team in Dundee, including directors Alan Baillie and Peter Shepherd along with well-known court solicitor Ken Gl

Reconvictions in Scotland have increased in the past year, going against the general downwards trend over the past decade. The reconviction rate, which is the percentage of offenders who are reconvicted in a year, was 28.3 per cent in 2018-19, which is a 1.9 percentage point increase from 26.4 per c

TLT has completed the sale of a 50MW battery storage project in Kintore near Aberdeen to SUSI Storage Development UK on behalf of ILI Energy Storage PLC (ILI), the clean energy development company. The transaction is the fourth battery storage sale TLT has completed for ILI Group in the last year, a

A new six-part Channel 4 series that blends drama with reality TV and competition in a single programme will begin tonight.

Tuesday 12 October 20215 pm – 6 pm This webinar will cover what steps must be taken to become qualified as a solicitor or advocate in Scotland and to become admitted to practice in New York.