People on the move
Almira Delibegovic-Broome QC has been appointed a Visiting Scholar at HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, USA over the next year. She will return to the Scottish bar in the summer
of 2019.
Jacqueline Fordyce, advocate has been appointed to a six-month post as a Visiting Professional in the Chambers of the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT in The Hague, Netherlands.
LINDA GEORGE FAMILY LAW LTD, Hamilton and Lanark, is delighted to announce the promotion of Emma Sadler, solicitor in Hamilton, and Lisa Gillespie, solicitor in the Lanark office, to associate with immediate effect.
HARPER MACLEOD, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Lerwick, has appointed Kenneth Campbell as a senior associate in commercial litigation in its Inverness office. He was previously with DWF in Edinburgh.
INNES & MACKAY LTD, Inverness, has announced the appointment of associates Sarah Windsor and Sarah Lilley as directors.
MLS LAW, Glasgow, has changed its name to OAKWOOD SCOTLAND SOLICITORS LTD as part of a rebrand.
RAEBURN CHRISTIE CLARK & WALLACE, Aberdeen, Ellon, Banchory, Inverurie and Stonehaven, has appointed new solicitor Dan McFarlane to its Commercial Property department.
SCULLION LAW LTD, Hamilton and Glasgow, has appointed Judith Higson as an associate director in its Family Law team. An accredited family law specialist, accredited child law specialist, accredited family law mediator and a collaborative lawyer, she was previously with KERR STIRLING, Stirling.
THORNTONS, Dundee and elsewhere, has announced a total of 10 promotions. Lynne MacIntyre (residential conveyancing, Forfar) and Stuart Mackie (private client, Montrose) are promoted from senior solicitor to associate. There are also eight new senior solicitors: in Dundee, Steven Drake (residential conveyancing), and Joanne Clancy and Lynsay McFarlane (both personal injury); in Edinburgh, Thomas Redpath (personal injury), Neil Falconer (intellectual property) and Megan Sweeney (private client); in St Andrews, Chris Gardiner (private client), and in Perth, Anneli Spence (land and rural business).
TURCAN CONNELL, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, has moved its Glasgow office from 149 St Vincent Street to 180 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5SG.
WEIGHTMANS, Glasgow and elsewhere, has appointed three new partners to its Glasgow office: Claire Thornber, a solicitor advocate in the civil courts, who joins from PINSENT MASONS, where she was a senior associate; Nicola Gonnella, formerly legal manager at HUTCHISON 3G UK; and corporate lawyer Claire McCracken, who joins from LINDSAYS.
A C WHITE, solicitors, Ayr, are pleased to announce that with effect from 1 July 2018 Angela Ruth Goldie has been promoted to associate.
WINK & MACKENZIE, Elgin, has appointed its associate Lauren Wright as a partner in the firm with effect from 1 August 2018.
In this issue
- Acting in the best interest of the company?
- Social housing: the ground rules change
- Supporting your EU staff
- Sands run out on offshore interests
- Familiar faces not welcome
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion: Pol Clementsmith
- Book reviews
- Profile: Robert Rennie
- President's column
- Moving from Registers Direct to ScotLIS
- People on the move
- Good on paper?
- When 1 + 1 = 3
- Voice of the child
- Curators ad litem: who pays, and for what?
- Limits of a course of conduct
- Asleep on the job?
- Affidavits – essential reading
- Prisoner privacy proportionality
- Not just a matter of form for employers
- Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal
- Keep your beneficiary nominations up to date
- See-through titles: setting the scene
- In-house traineeships: time for an in-depth look
- Public policy highlights
- Paralegal pointers
- Police interview advice: a skill to learn
- Swimming, not sinking
- The lawyer and the geek
- Ask Ash