Remembering our colleagues and friends in June 2025
JOHN RANDAL BAIN, Dunfermline
On 16th May 2025 John Randal Bain, formerly partner of the firm Macbeth Currie, and latterly consultant of the firm Morgans, both Dunfermline.
AGE: 75 ADMITTED: 1978
IAIN HENDERSON, (retired solicitor), Machrihanish
On 16th March 2025 Iain Henderson, formerly employed with Procurator Fiscal Service, Campbeltown.
AGE: 85 ADMITTED: 1972
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