Legal news
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Addleshaw Goddard hires Aberdeen corporate partner
Energy sector specialist Fiona Kindness joins from Pinsent Masons
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Scottish Arbitration Centre begins life as institution
Rules published as Centre acquires arbitral institution status
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Shoosmiths expands Corporate team with four new hires
Two legal directors and two associates join Scottish offices
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Lindsays extends Scottish Athletics sponsorship
New two-year deal for cross country events
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Gillespie Macandrew appoints five new solicitors
Recruits have just completed traineeships with law firm
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Committee seeks views on budget plans
Fears over possible cuts to services including courts
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MSP is the first to swear allegiance to King Charles
Tory Roz McCall takes seat in Holyrood
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Scots house price growth shows signs of slowing
Annual rate of house price increase to July dips below 10%
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Holmes Mackillop to merge with Macfarlane & Co
Three join enlarged practice as Alison Macfarlane and Greig McPhail retire
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Sentence discount includes disposal type: Appeal Court
Maximum unpaid community work could be discount from custody
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Edinburgh court business affected by mourning events
High Court trials relocated; Court of Session to sit virtually
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Tributes from the profession to HM Queen Elizabeth II
Courts adjourned as mark of respect following death of the sovereign
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Planning lawyer rejoins Shepherd & Wedderburn as partner
Fraser Mitchell returns to Shepherd & Wedderburn from Shoosmiths
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Truss Government drops Bill of Rights Bill
Ministers said to be "reviewing how to deliver objectives"
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Associate appointment at The Chamber Practice
Donna Imrie joins Cupar office from Rollo Solicitors
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Rent freeze and not proven abolition in new bill plans
2022-23 Programme for Government includes 18 more bills for Holyrood
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EBA protests at minister's "obfuscating" paper to MSPs
Open letter sets out why burden on legal aid practitioners has increased
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Paul Brown to retire from Legal Services Agency
Principal solicitor who built up law centre over 30 years steps down
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Friends Legal spreads east to Garden Stirling Burnet
Plans to double size of East Lothian practice following takeover
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Two partners lead eight promoted at Anderson Strathern
Specialist litigators Gary Burton and Robbie Wilson join partner list
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Eleven new sheriffs take up appointments this month
Nine solicitors and two advocates take up positions across five sheriffdoms
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Pilot scheme opens to reduce summary criminal hearings
Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley test early disclosure and resolution scheme
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Thorntons re-runs Cash for Kids charity wills campaign
September opportunity to help struggling families through making a will
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New Judicial Complaints Reviewer is named
James Mollison takes up post