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
The angel’s share — AI and the risk to legal intelligence
As the legal world integrates generative and agentic AI into its drafting, reviewing and decision-making processes, AI systems begin to learn not just how we work but what we think.
SPONSORED: Ford Group Emissions Group Proceedings
The group proceedings relate to claims arising in Scotland from the diesel NOx emissions issues affecting certain Ford vehicles with diesel engines manufactured to Euro 5 or Euro 6 emissions standards (excluding Euro 6d and Euro 6d Temp).
60 seconds with… Peter Walsh, co-convener of the Legal Aid Committee
Peter Walsh, the Law Society’s Council member for Greenock, Kilmarnock and Paisley, has recently taken up the position of co-convener of the Legal Aid Committee. In light of his new role, we catch up to discuss the real-time implications of the legal aid system and why legal aid matters to him.