The new partners: clockwise from top left: Natalie Dissake, Amy Walsh, Kathleen Martin, Marina Harper, Andrew Mackenzie, Laura McCorquodale, Craig Ramsay and Paul Macdonald By Ian McConnell SCOTTISH law firm Harper Macleod has announced eight new partners, declaring it is emerging “strongly from a financial year dominated by the pandemic”. The eight new partners are Natalie Dissake, in the debt and asset recovery division, Amy Walsh in business development, Kathleen Martin in the private client operation, personal injury specialist Marina Harper, Andrew MacKenzie and Laura McCorquodale in dispute resolution, and Craig Ramsay and Paul Macdonald in corporate. Harper Macleod noted the appointments take its total number of partners to 74, “with 43% of those female”.
Along with garden centres, hairdressers and barbers reopened on Monday along with homeware stores and car showrooms. Tony Mann opened his barber shop in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, at 6am to enable people to get their hair cut for the first time in months. He had 96 customers booked in until 8pm. Mr Mann said: It s been four months since the last day we cut hair so the feeling today is slight anxiety and slight worry, like is everything going to go to plan , but I m also feeling really excited and happy because my shop is open again. We start at 6am and finish at 8pm.”