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Parliamentary & Public Affairs - Scotland

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What the Team is Known For

Burness Paull has a strong parliamentary and public affairs practice providing expertise in a range of matters from drafting and promoting legislation to advising on high-profile parliamentary inquiries. It offers extensive experience in statutory interpretation, judicial reviews and constitutional developments in the UK and EU. The firm also assists clients with strategic advice on issues arising from Brexit and COVID-19. It regularly counsels public and private sector clients, government bodies and civil servants.

Work Highlights

  • Burness Paull acted for Odfjell Technology, a global drilling business, in a challenge to a decision by HMRC to apply legislation retrospectively to it.

Strengths

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The team was highly responsive and knowledgeable.

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Burness Paull is a go-to firm for advice, it provides very good, measured, clear and reasonable advice. It also offers good attention to detail.

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Burness Paull offers brilliant technical knowledge combined with excellent commercial awareness and in-depth knowledge of the client. It provides all round support from a well connected internal team.

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Notable Practitioners

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Hazel Moffat
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Hazel Moffat
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Hazel Moffat leads the public law and regulatory offering at Burness Paull. She is recognised for her experience in parliamentary affairs and often assists with legislative drafting, among other matters.

Hazel is the go-to for advice.

Hazel is really diligent and really on top of the detail.

Hazel is very responsive.

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Louise McErlean
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Louise McErlean is a senior associate in the Burness Paull team assisting public law clients with both regulatory advice and contentious matters.

Louise is very responsive and happy to help. She is very knowledgeable.

Louise is a brilliant public lawyer, super organised, and a very good analytical lawyer. She can see the strong and weak points from the get go

Louise is very pleasant, really diligent and really on top of the detail.

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Hazel Moffat
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Louise McErlean
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