Legal news

Lindsays makes private client director hire
Alison McKay joins from the PRG Partnership

Womble Bond Dickinson offers hybrid working to UK teams
Staff given option of office based, home based or hybrid arrangements

Two senior associate hires for Balfour+Manson
Russell Eadie and Stephanie Nichol join firm

Children exposed to crime to have Bairns' Hoose by 2025
Combined services to be available to all eligible victims or witnesses

Promotions round at Anderson Strathern
More than 20 fee earners recognised with advancement

MSPs begin UK internal market inquiry
Call for views seeks comments on impact on devolution

Blackadders hires Glasgow employment partner
Stephen Connolly joins from Miller Samuel Hill Brown

Gillespie Macandrew confirms recent hires
Four join Planning, Property and Energy teams

Minute to vary applies to refusal of s 11 order: SAC
Procedure for expeditious resolution should apply in all cases

Immigration practice McGill & Co joins Burness Paull
Grace McGill becomes head of Immigration in expanded team

Lord Advocate makes changes in senior Crown Office team
Alex Prentice QC in new post: Senior Trial Counsel and director of training

Faculty/SEMLA event aims to increase bar diversity
“How to become an advocate” seeks all under-represented groups

TLT takes new office space in Glasgow
Development designed for flexible working

Twelve new Queen's Counsel appointed
Eleven advocates and one solicitor advocate awarded silk

Lady Wolffe to leave the bench for Strathclyde chair
Court of Session judge resigns to become Professor of Practice

Society seeks to fill committee vacancies
Convener, solicitor and non-solicitor places vacant across range of work

Land Court and Lands Tribunal to merge
Expanded Land Court expected to offer more streamlined service

Twelve bills announced in new Programme for Government
Society criticises lack of urgency in reforming legal aid

Tribunals conference considers post-pandemic future
Speakers praise COVID response and explore flexible models

Draft rules direct remote civil court hearings for most
SCJC consults on default position after the COVID emergency measures

Scope of new consumer duty goes out to views
Ministers consult on which bodies will have to consider impact on consumers

Extra trial courts sitting to tackle COVID backlogs
Additional solemn venues and summary courts provided under SCTS programme

Lockdown raised separated parent woes, charity reports
Shared Parenting Scotland had busiest year in 2020-21

Solicitors urged to highlight Remember A Charity Week
Campaign to promote charitable legacies as figures show 1m gifts in decade