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Gillespie Macandrew has bolstered its planning, property and energy teams with a number of recent hires. Gordon Clark has joined the firm’s planning team from Dentons, while Ross Baron and Catherine Wylie have joined the energy sector team from Watermans Legal and Raworths respectively. 

Terra Firma's David Logan successfully represented the petitioners, a community interest company, in a judicial review against a planning decision of Dundee City Council to install an e-bike docking station outside residential flats in the West End Suburbs Conservation Area of Dundee. The core of th

Black Chambers has welcomed the appointment of Jennifer Bain as Queen's Counsel. Since calling to the bar in 2002, she has built a reputation for dealing with vulnerable witnesses and building good working relationships with clients.

Kieran Smith reveals why group action against Link Fund Solutions, in their role as manager of the Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF), is the only way to see justice done. The Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF) was the flagship fund of the larger Woodford Fund portfolio managed by former invest

The investment arm of Gilson Gray has acquired a financial planning firm. Gilson Gray Financial Management (GGFM) has taken over Dunblane-based GCR Financial, for a seven-figure sum.

The number of venture capital ‘megadeals’ in the UK has increased tenfold over the last decade, according to a report by Shoosmiths in partnership with data platform Beauhurst. Ten years ago saw just five ‘megadeals’ – where £50 million or more was invested into U

TLT has signed the Greener Litigation Pledge as part of its aim to be a net zero business by 2025 and to support its clients with their own sustainability goals. Signatories commit to actively reducing, with a view to minimising, the environmental impacts of litigation in the English and Welsh court

Menus could show how many calories there are in meals under new Scottish government plans to encourage healthy eating. Calorie labelling on restaurant and takeaway menus could become mandatory under the proposals meant to help tackle obesity.

A middle-aged Liverpudlian spent three nights in a maximum-security jail after being mistaken for one of Italy's most-wanted mafia bosses. Prosecutors apologised to the 54-year-old, named only as Mark, after he was arrested at gunpoint at a restaurant in the Hague and taken blindfolded to jail, Dutc

A sheriff has ordered the Brexit Party to pay just over £22,000 in unpaid invoice expenses to an advertising company based in Glasgow. VMS Enterprises Ltd, a supplier of mobile advertising services in the form of mobile billboards and electronic boards, was contracted by the then-Brexit Party

Stephen O'Rourke QC has been appointed principal crown counsel, replacing Alex Prentice QC in the role. Mr O'Rourke, whose seniority is immediately below that of the lord advocate and solicitor general, will lead the advocate depute team.

Holyrood has approved the use of coronavirus vaccination certificates to enter some events and higher risk venues. MSPs voted in favour of the measure, which will come into effect on Friday October 1.

Supporters of a small East Lothian hospital that is closing its doors to new patients have instructed Balfour and Manson's Elaine Motion to consider legal action against the NHS. Friends of the Edington Hospital in North Berwick were "shocked" when NHS Lothian announced on September 1 that no new pa

A student of law at the University of Aberdeen has become the first ever recipient of a new annual award in honour of a successful lawyer from the city who passed away last year.

The Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Act 2019 received Royal Assent on 24 April 2019 but Part 2 of the act, which allows Scottish courts to impose a periodical payment order (PPO) for future pecuniary losses in a personal injury claim rather than to award damages as a